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.

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…

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…

Join us for our next large scale volunteering Fell Care event, which will be in and around Coniston on Friday 22nd November 2024. Here’s the list of the brilliant volunteering opportunities at the Coniston Fell Care Day so please sign up for the activity that appeals to you. Please note numbers are…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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!

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.

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…

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!

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.

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,…