Volunteering offers everyone the opportunity to transfer your skills, learn how to identify identify, plants, shrubs, trees or how to manage areas to enhance the habitats and landscape.  As well as making a difference to our community and it also offers real benefits to your health and wellbeing too.

Volunteering activities have been shown to improve your fitness and enhance mental wellbeing by combining outdoor exercise, increased contact with nature and the social benefits of group activity.

• Cutting ivy off trees and shrubs adjacent to the way, to reduce incidences of windblow.
• Coppicing trees and shrubs.
• Hedge laying and creating new habitat.
• Letting light into areas periodically to encourage woodland flowering plants.
• Grant applications, letter writing, updating records, creating species management plans etc.
• Monitoring and learning about birds, butterflies, plants, reptiles etc.
• Reporting problems on the way.
• Tree and shrub planting.
• Planting out plug plants to increase the variety of native plants - a nectar source.
• Managing grassland - scything to encourage diversity; an almost meditative practice.
• Build bird and bat boxes for placement along the Salt Way.