Become a volunteer!
Research shows that 80% of people would volunteer if asked.
So we are asking you to volunteer for us
By giving your time to the Trust you can:
- Make a difference to the environment
- Use your experience to help others
- Gain work experience
- Make new friends
- Develop your personal and practical skills
- Enhance your CV
- Have fun!
The Trust is a volunteer-driven organisation and there are many ways you could get involved. Volunteers fulfil key roles in all aspects of our work, from leading guided walks and carrying out conservation work, to fundraising and administration roles. Volunteers may also contribute by joining our Council of Trustees or various management committees.
This work involves an estimated 1,000 individuals without whom much of the work carried out by the Trust would not be done.
We are always looking for people with different experiences and knowledge to share, as well as those who are hoping to develop new skills.
All help is welcome whether you can spare only a few hours or a full day. Besides being rewarding, voluntary work is a social activity and can be great fun.
If you have the time and commitment to help, we’ll do everything we can to develop your skills as well as enhance your wildlife and conservation interests.
Get involved!
Volunteering opportunities at the Trust vary depending on where you are and what you want to do. The list below outlines the various different opportunities, click on the links below to find out more information:
1. Community based opportunities:
- Local supporter groups
- Fairtrade
- Compost ambassadors
- Living churchyard and cemeteries project
- Real nappy project
- Salisbury wildlife project
- Swindon energy project
- Wiltshire world changers
3. Education based opportunities:
- Wildlife watch leaders
- Waste education
4. Fundraising:
5. Office based volunteering (Devizes, Wroughton and Langford Lakes)
6. Opportunities based outdoors
- Practical conservation work on Nature Reserves
- Monitoring and recording schemes
- Watervole surveying
- Wiltshire traditional orchards project
From time to time specific volunteering roles are advertised in our vacancies section
If you are interested in helping the Trust by volunteering, or have any questions use the form below to email us and get involved!
Volunteer handbook
Download our volunteering handbook, it is a reference point for all those who work with volunteers. It provides ideas, suggestions, solutions and case studies. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this file. File size is 2264KB.
