Volunteering with us…

We need help with a whole range of different things. It’s not just physically working on the land, we need people to help create education activities, help with clerical duties like planning applications, grant funding, stakeholder engagement, marketing, accounting, fundraising, etc.

If you have any time you can spare and feel like you can help us in any way, then please contact us…

Work parties…

Contact us to be put on our mailing list for volunteer work parties. We will announce dates and activities as we plan them in. Typically we are clearing paths, removing barbed wire, tidying up our compound ready for the education facilities, habitat creation such as dead wood hedges and reptile stations, installing the nature trail, information boards, etc.

For larger work parties we can put hot catering on and the food is delicious!

Our work parties are fairly short at the moment as we have no toilet facilities. When we host corporate release day work parties we will do a full day. For our local volunteers who turn up on a weekend, a shorter half day tends to be enough.

Some of our work parties are like gentle gardening and suitable for anyone to do. We also have jobs where we need to use tools that require some experience to use and physical grunt. We will make this clear when announcing work parties.

If you are attending a work party, please read our volunteer pack below beforehand:

You will be asked to sign a liability waiver form and consent for photographs to be taken during the day. Please contact us in advance if you have any concerns.

Event Managers

If you are running a volunteer work party for NEWT. You must use the risk assessment below and go through that with the volunteers you are managing. You must also have a first aider and appropriate first aid kit for the activity you are doing.