We can offer your team a great day out by assisting with the practical management of our nature reserves.
Why not try your hand at coppicing in ancient woodland, or make hay while the sun shines in a Cotswold meadow? 
Employee volunteering is a fantastic opportunity for staff team building and personal development outside of the normal working environment. It is also a great, interactive way for companies to make a positive and practical difference to local wildlife.
We can provide a wide range of activities from dry stone wall building to improving habitat for water voles. Tasks suitable for employee volunteering occur throughout the year, but higher numbers are available during the autumn and winter months, when most habitat management takes place.
Full training will be given on the day, and expert Trust staff will be on hand to supervise.
We run volunteering events throughout the year, across our 60 nature reserves, providing:
A very challenging but fun day out. The experience brought together people as a team, but more importantly it assisted in the preservation of our wildlife that needs all the help it can get
- Russ Langley, AmeyCOLAS
- Exclusive events for all group of all sizes
- Tasks for all abilities
- All equipment and materials necessary for the task
- Morning and afternoon refreshments
- Opportunities for guided walks
- Opportunities for team-building tasks
- Full training for the day's task from our Nature Reserve Managers
- Full health and safety provision and on-site briefing
- A rewarding and fun experience with fantastic benefits for local wildlife
We can provide an annual cycle of volunteering activities where staff can actively see the difference they are making for wildlife and local communities for generations to come.
Although there is no formal charge for organising and running a task for your team, we ask companies to make a donation which helps covers the costs of health and safety, tools, equipment and supervision.
Did you know that employee volunteering:
- Shows staff and customers that you share their core values in supporting the local community?
- Helps recruit and retain new employees – particularly high calibre graduates?
- Actively demonstrates corporate responsibility?
- Provides employees perspective and space from their every day pressures?
- Provides social interaction across all management levels?
- Helps build problem solving skills?
- Provides immediate sense of reward and achievement?
- Promotes team building and team cohesion?
- Promotes well being?
The activities that you are likely to be involved with include:
Coppicing
This is where young, smaller trees are cut down at the base to encourage a dense growth, this will be done by using a variety of hand tools and usually involves a bonfire.
Scrub clearance
On many of our reserves we have to remove small trees and shrubs that have encroached from hedgerows and woodland boundaries onto rides and clearings. This usually involves a bonfire and is done by using a variety of hand tools. Both these activities are more suitable for larger groups and are undertaken from late September onwards.
Dry-stone walling
This is a great task for smaller group ( 6 and less ) we have a length of Dry-stone wall that needs improving at our Greystones Farm Reserve.
Ecological Surveying
During the summer we collect vast amounts of information about our nature reserves, this could be through counting wild flowers to mammal trapping , smaller teams ( 6 and less) are ideal for any surveying activities. Please note that the surveying activities can change month to month.
Fencing
Fencing can take place at any time of year and we frequently need to do this on many of our reserves, this is ideal for medium sized teams. (10 max)
Contact Us
For more information on volunteering opportunities contact Lynn Toon
Or call 01452 383333
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