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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.
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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.
Dedicated marine strandings volunteers produce gold standard citizen science
Cornwall Wildlife Trust hails 20 years of the Marine Strandings Network. Over 250 volunteers gather data which help us better understand marine life in Cornish waters
Volunteer wins Environment Award for 10 years of dedication to practical conservation work in Cornwall
Pauline Ryan’s smile lit up the room last Thursday at the Cornwall Volunteer Awards hosted at the Eden Project as she received her ‘Environmental Award’ from Carolyn Cadman, Chief Executive of…
My retirement
Malcolm loves volunteering every week at Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve where he indulges in his passion for wildlife, keeps active and meets with friends.
My new roots
Mary moved to Birmingham for her job and has found volunteering with The Wildlife Trust the perfect way to meet new people and put down roots in a new place.