If you enjoy variety and want to be a part of a friendly and welcoming team, you will love volunteering at Lackford Lakes.

Volunteers are an essential part of the team at Lackford and assist the staff to run the reserve, educational visits and visitor centre. There are a huge number of jobs that volunteers can get involved with:

Education - we have a busy schedule of events and school visits throughout the year and are always looking for volunteers to lead and assist with these activities. You don’t have to have a teaching qualification, just a desire to share your enjoyment of nature with a captive audience! A lot of work also goes on behind the scenes in planning, researching and making resources. If you don’t fancy helping out with the kids, how about leading guided walks or helping out with our programme of adult courses?

Visitor centre and reception work - with just over 23, 000 visitors into the centre in 2007, Lackford is becoming an increasingly popular centre for visitors. We need volunteers to help run the reception area, welcoming visitors, serving teas and coffees, and taking sales from the shop.

Publicity and administration - we are constantly striving to increase our audience and general awareness of our reserve and the Trust in the local area. We need your help to add information to our database, design posters and get the information out into the community!

Practical fieldwork - with weekly work parties there is always plenty of opportunity to get stuck into work around the reserve! This work often involves activities such as building or restoring paths, maintaining hides or creation of new habitats, coppicing work and tree planting. This opportunity gives those involved a very firsthand glimpse at the base of the Trust’s work.

If there is another way in which you think you could help out that has not been mentioned above then we may still be very happy for your input- just give us a call to discover where and how your skills could best be utilised!

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