Volunteer with West Cumbria Rivers Trust. Riverfly are an important part of the river ecosystem providing food for all the larger organisms that live in and around the rivers. Riverfly encompass all small invertebrates that live on and in the sediment at the bottom of the river, from snails to mayflies to worms. Riverfly can be used to detect pollution events and show how a river is changing through time, without the need of catching the larger organisms such as fish and birds, or expensive laboratory testing. Our Riverfly volunteers attend volunteer training events before heading out independantly to survey their own river patch.
Volunteer with West Cumbria Rivers Trust
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Citizen Scientists play an important role in collecting, recording and analysing data about our rivers, lakes, surrounding habitats and wildlife. All of this information can help us to establish the overall health of rivers and habitats and can influence future work and projects.
Volunteering
West Cumbria Rivers Trust offers a wide range of volunteering opportunities. Please note that most of our opportunities are seasonal, so even if you don't see something available right now but listed in the General Volunteering Opportunities section, please do still fill in an application form and…
Volunteering
Volunteer with West Cumbria Rivers Trust. To keep tabs on our work and how successful projects have been we run various different monitoring and surveying programmes that we sometimes need volunteer help with. This can be anything from helping to download time lapse footage, to downloading…
Volunteering
Volunteer with West Cumbria Rivers Trust. Mink are an invasive non-native species and threaten have a dramatic impact on biodiversity by predating on ground nesting birds, fish and other wildlife. Mink are also well known for being the number one driver in the loss of water vole populations in…
Cumbrian Agriculture, Arboriculture and Forestry Apprenticeship Information Evenings 18 and 19 May 2026
Lancaster University Open Days and Campus Tours
Myerscough College Open Day 18 April 2026
