World Wildlife Fund
Volunteering can be daunting, and expensive if you don’t know where to look. But it doesn’t need to be this hard to do good.
Often local nature reserves or parks are looking for regular volunteers, which can give you practical conservation experience as well as helping to restore nature your local area.
We want everyone to have the opportunity to help and kickstart a career in conservation. We have a network of youth internship schemes across the world where you can work on a placement with a WWF team or with one of our projects in the field. It’s an exciting opportunity to be able to work in the front line of nature conservation.
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https://www.wwf.org.uk/thingsyoucandoWelsh Wildlife TrustThere are plenty of ways you can donate your skills and time to look after wildlife! Opportunities include community gardening, species surveying (such as looking for otters!), caring for nature reserves, plant identification and GPS mapping. You can even run Wildlife Watch groups, which enable young people to discover and explore their local environment.
Our volunteers carry out a huge range of tasks but it doesn't have to be outdoors! You could find yourself making good use of your organisational, IT, administrative or financial skills too.
Each Wildlife Trust has a large number of both regular and casual volunteers, amounting to a total of more than 32,500 volunteers across the UK.
https://www.welshwildlife.org/get-involved/volunteer
GreenpeaceTogether we defend the natural world and work for a green and peaceful future.
Up and down the country, people concerned about our planet’s future work together on Greenpeace campaigns. It’s all about showing those in power that there’s huge support for urgent action to take on climate change and protect our living world.
There are lots of different things you can do as part of a group so there’s a role for everyone.
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/volunteering/join-a-local-volunteer-group/
WCVAWCVA is the national membership body for voluntary organisations in Wales.
Volunteers are the lifeblood of voluntary and community organisations in Wales. They bring so many benefits, but recruiting and retaining volunteers means creating a positive and supportive environment.
These pages include information sheets covering a wide range of topics and advice, model policies, resources, information on grant funding and more. If you work with volunteers in Wales, or are looking to get into volunteering, then we’ve got you covered.
https://wcva.cymru/volunteering/
Stump Up for Trees
Stump Up For Trees is an ambitious, community-based charity focused on woodland creation and enhancing biodiversity in the Brecon Beacons area of south-east Wales.
The charity is planting one million trees, using innovative public-private funding initiatives.
Trees give life. It’s hard to overstate their benefits. Trees provide wildlife habitat, food, better air and water quality, medicine, shade, sustainable timber, natural flood management and healthier soils. Most importantly in today’s urgent debate about climate change, trees also sequester carbon dioxide.
Help us to plant more trees, and plant them well.
https://stumpupfortrees.org
National TrustThere are several ways in which you can get involved and volunteer in the Brecon Beacons. You can meet and greet visitors at Pont ar Daf, the main access point into the central Beacons, or you can become a ‘Length volunteer’ and help with upland footpath maintenance.
Meet and Greet volunteers at Pont ar DafBecoming a Meet and Greet volunteer is a great way of meeting new people while sharing your knowledge and first-hand experience of the area with visitors.
Situated at Pont ar Daf, the main access point onto the central Beacons, you’ll be providing a warm welcome even on the coolest day. As an ambassador for the National Trust your commitment to the cause while helping spread the conservation message with others is invaluable.
You’ll be helping to enhance the visitors’ journeys and you may be asked a question or two about local buses or attractions.
Lengths volunteers help us carry out upland path maintenanceIf you enjoy the being in the outdoors, volunteering with the Lengths team could be ideal for you. The ranger team for Brecon Beacons and Monmouthshire carry out upland path maintenance on the Skirrid, Sugar Loaf and central Brecon Beacons and you can join them and get involved. Tasks include clearing drains, ditches and culverts and minor repair of structures such as pitching and wooden steps.
Being a Lengths volunteer gives you the opportunity to share the message of the National Trust’s vital conservation work, as well as helping visitors understand them while they enjoy these special places.
How do I get involved?Whether you can help for a fixed time such as holiday periods, or for regular days each week, we’d love to hear from you. Some opportunities are seasonal so it's worth checking the National Trust volunteer website regularly for more information.
With a thorough induction and ongoing training, you’ll increase your own knowledge of these special places and being part of the Brecon Beacons and Monmouthshire team is a great way to learn new things.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/brecon-beacons/volunteering-in-the-brecon-beacons
Bannau Brycheiniog National ParkVolunteers make a huge contribution to the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority and are a highly valued and appreciated part of the team. Volunteers are people of all ages and from all walks of life who generously give their time to help us monitor, improve, and conserve this special landscape, as well as enhancing the experience of residents and visitors.
https://www.beacons-npa.gov.uk/the-authority/volunteering/