Do you want to gain skills, experience, and confidence while helping young people connect with nature? Are you passionate about making the outdoors more inclusive for everyone? If yes, this could be the ideal traineeship for you.

Come and get involved learning about endangered wildflower meadow restoration work at the Cumbria Seed Bank. We are saving seed from 14 rare and declining species to then propagate into plug plants at our conservation nursery at Gosling Sike, then we'll plant them out in specific sites to establish…

Are you ready to contribute to ground-breaking science research and support one of the UK’s largest nature restoration programmes? We’re inviting researchers, students, social scientists, ecologists and conservationists to collaborate with our expert team.

Are you an experienced ecologist ready to take the next step in your career? Do you thrive in delivering a positive leadership role whilst staying hands on with technical work? Can you contribute to our established group of regional leaders who aim to continue developing and evolving our exciting…

Volunteer with West Cumbria Rivers Trust. As the Spring showers begin toads/frogs make their way back to their ponds to mate. Unfortunately, often these journeys require amphibians to cross the road at night, which can be pretty dangerous. Join us on a wet spring evening to collect toads on the…

Volunteer with West Cumbria Rivers Trust. Before we can plant wildflowers on previously degraded land it needs a bit of TLC through various methods to prepare the soil.

Volunteer with West Cumbria Rivers Trust. Himalayan balsam is an invasive non-native species that grows throughout the summer months. It takes over riparian areas to reduce biodiversity and increase flood risk. In the summer months we work to pull it up (an easy task!).

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 -…

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.

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,…

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…

Our Wildlife Watch groups are for children to make friends with other nature detectives and have lots of fun taking part in practical nature activities - from pond dipping to wildlife safaris.

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!