Join us on our wildflower plug planting this year - not only in our meadows, but also in community spaces and to help restore our mosses and other habitats.
Take a look at our 2024 plug planting days and get involved with making a difference for Cumbria's wildlife and wild places.
Forestry + Woodlands
Apprenticeship
Level 3 Forest Craftperson (Coming Soon) - register your interest for September, 2025. Location: Workplace Delivery supported with Online Lectures and Tutorial Support
Forestry + Woodlands
Apprenticeship
Level 6 Professional Arboriculturist (Coming Soon) - Register your interest for September, 2025. Location: Workplace delivery supported with Online Lectures and Tutorial Support
Forestry + Woodlands
Apprenticeship
Level 4 Arboriculturist Apprenticeship Standard. This occupation is found in arboricultural, utility, facilities management and grounds maintenance organisations. These include local authorities, arboricultural consultancies, estates, commercial organisations and charities. The broad purpose of the…
Nature Conservation
Volunteering
Join our workparty for general maintenance work. We'll be doing all kinds of tasks depending on what needs doing so you may find yourself tree staking, checking tubes and ties, removing tubes, grass weeding, path clearance, hedge trimming or plug planting for example.Various dates and locations -…
Communication + Education
Volunteering
If you would like to join as a volunteer and offer any of your skills, such as Fundraising, IT support, Learning about the breed and hill farmers, or Trustee, then we would love to hear from you and aid us in building our growing team who find it a varied and rewarding experience.
Nature Conservation
Training
Want to learn how to lay hedges correctly? Skilled hedge laying trainers from the Lancashire and Westmorland Hedge Laying Association will be providing free training at Low Beckside Farm, Mungrisdale on Tuesday 21 January 2025, 9.30 – 4pm.This ancient heritage skill is rapidly disappearing from…
Nature Conservation
Training
Want to learn how to lay hedges correctly? Skilled hedge laying trainers from the Lancashire and Westmorland Hedge Laying Association will be providing training at Low Sizergh Farm, Kendal on Saturday 1st February 2025, 9am – 4pm.This ancient heritage skill is rapidly disappearing from our…
Communication + Education
Volunteering
Do you enjoy chatting to people? Welcome new members to Cumbria Wildlife Trust over the phone at our office in Plumgarths. We are looking for a friendly volunteer who is happy to chat over the phone, to join our Membership Development Team. You would be calling people who have recently joined…
Nature Conservation
Volunteering
Get the micro-volunteering bug today and join the biggest citizen’s science project that National Parks have ever undertaken. Look Wild uses a free nature identification app that will name plants and animals for you and contribute to a huge National Park-led project at the same time. It’s free to…
Nature Conservation
Volunteering
The South Lakes property in the Lake District is one of the most diverse, interesting and challenging properties in the whole of The National Trust. Millions of people visit the Lakes every year and one of our key challenges is how to connect more and better with these people, from all round the…
Visitor + Rural Economy
Apprenticeship
Landscape Supervisor Level 3 Apprenticeship. A Landscape Supervisor can be employed to oversee work in public parks and gardens, green spaces and historic gardens, private gardens and estates or in production nurseries and retail outlets. Many businesses will be specialised in their activities,…
Visitor + Rural Economy
Apprenticeship
Candidates for this Level 3 Farriery Apprenticeship Standard must be at least 16 years of age however there is no upper age limit. Candidates must serve a period of Apprenticeship of four years whilst employed by an Approved Training Farrier (ATF). An ATF is a person who is a Registered Farrier…
Forestry + Woodlands
Apprenticeship
Level 2 Arborist Standard (CUMBRIA). The arboricultural industry manages trees for their benefits and values in diverse urban and rural locations from city parks and urban woodlands, to country estates and private gardens. The industry manages trees adjacent to highways, railways, watercourses and…
Farming + Technology
Apprenticeship
Animal Care & Welfare Assistant Level 2 Apprenticeship. Animal Care and Welfare Assistants look after the routine day to day husbandry and care of domestic and/or wild animals under guidance in a variety of different settings. The work is carried out individually or as part of a team in places such…
Nature Conservation
Volunteering
Come and help us monitor this rare species that has been reintroduced to sites in Cumbria. You don’t have to be a wildlife expert, anyone can get involved!
Communication + Education
Volunteering
Help us engage the next generation in taking action for wildlife!. We are looking for people to help with our existing groups in Barrow, Cockermouth, Gosling Sikes (Carlisle), and Grange. We are also looking for a Watch leader and helpers for our Penrith group.
Communication + Education
Volunteering
We are looking for a volunteer to support our Time in Nature session one afternoon a month in Workington. Alongside our community development officer, you'll be working with people with a variety of needs, supporting them in their activities and helping them engage with nature. The sessions are…
Nature Conservation
Volunteering
Get stuck in to practical task on a hands-on conservation day. There's plenty of wildflower planting to do, scrub and bramble removal, bracken bashing, and invasive plant removal, as well as path, bridge and boundary repairs. Lace up your boots and come and join us!
Protected Landscapes + Heritage Skills
Volunteering
The role will include collecting data from an upland peatbog site that has undergone restoration, within the Lake District National Park. No previous experience is necessary, though a willingness to spend time in the mountains where weather conditions can change very quickly is essential. Some…
Nature Conservation
Volunteering
We are looking for volunteers to help our Squirrel Rangers get a better understanding of the squirrel population around Cumbria. In this case, in Staveley.This volunteer role can fit your lifestyle, you can monitor just your garden, along your dog walk route, your run route, your local park,…
Agriculture Apprenticeships Information Evening
Sustainability Leadership in Education webinar
Business Bites Coffee Morning