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Volunteering Opportunities
Browse our current volunteering opportunities and help wildlife in your local area. There are volunteering opportunities across the UK, from supporting events, to community gardening and species surveying.
Volunteer for Wildlife
Volunteers work with us to create a Wilder Cornwall
About Us
Cornwall Wildlife Trust is one of 46 Wildlife Trusts working across the UK. With the invaluable support of our volunteers, members and corporate supporters we manage over 50 nature reserves, including an island for wildlife and people in Cornwall. We also work with other organisations and landowners to protect and connect wildlife sites across the county and inspire local communities and young people to care for wildlife where they live.
Volunteers lay hedges for Cornish wildlife
Volunteer groups from Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Cornwall Council have teamed up to lay a stretch of new hedge at Millennium Woods near Penzance. The result is a dense, living hedge which…
Volunteer Looe Island Wardens
Looe Island, Looe, Cornwall
Full-time, residential volunteer role
May – October 2026
Do you dream of living and working on your own island, surrounded by wildlife and stunning…
Power of the people: the volunteers transforming Helman Tor
Mid-Cornwall Reserves Officer Alex reports on the incredible impact that a small team of volunteers has made on Cornwall Wildlife Trust's largest nature reserve
Volunteers create Cornish hedge at Millennium Woods
Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s Wild Penwith volunteer group has built and repaired over 100 meters of Cornish hedge over the years but living, “green” hedges are a fairly rare feature of the Penwith…
Youth Volunteer Day: An Introduction to Coppicing
Aged between 16 and 18? This is your chance to connect with others, meet our reserves team, and learn practical conservation tasks.
Youth Volunteer Day: An Introduction to Scything
Aged between 16 and 18? This is your chance to connect with others, meet our reserves team, and learn practical conservation tasks.
Learn about Cornwall’s dolphins and porpoises
Cornwall is among the best places in the UK to see dolphins and porpoises, and is home to one of the few resident pods of bottlenose dolphins left off the British Isles.