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Volunteering
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Opportunities Many volunteer opportunities exist with the AONB Service. These range from carrying out practical conservation and landscape work with an established team, through undertaking survey and monitoring work, to helping The Landscape Trust with membership administration and fund-raising events.We welcome enquiries from interested members of the public, from school students wanting to do countryside-focused placements and from under graduates and postgraduates who want to further their careers in environmental fields. We want to encourage participation and involvement of all. By working as a volunteer for the AONB, you will be making a real difference to the conservation and enhancement of the area, while meeting other like-minded volunteers, sharing experience and learning new skills. You will boost your self-confidence, gain satisfaction from knowing you are making a difference and even improve your general well-being! For those who are looking to make Environmental Management their career choice - practical conservation volunteering is an essential building block of an attractive and useful CV. Examples of the range of opportunities that exist in the Arnside/Silverdale AONB are as follows:
*Please note: whilst every effort is made to accommodate volunteering requests, places are limited and are already in great demand Practical Conservation and Environmental Tasks We have a strong and stable group of volunteers who come out every Tuesday (10am-4pm) and a similar group on Thursday (10am-12.30pm). The advantage of this arrangement is that people who are unable to make the commitment to a regular day or half day out, but who would like to help on an 'ad hoc' basis can do so. Having volunteers who come out very regularly means we can train them in the skills required for the task and relax in the knowledge that they know what they are doing and why. The volunteers achieve a high level of 'job satisfaction' whilst having the skills to work to a high standard and comply fully with Health and Safety requirements. Volunteering We produce a monthly volunteers newsletter Waymarker. This always contains the programme of tasks for the month ahead. It is available from the AONB Service office in Arnside. Click on Waymarker to view, download and print out a copy of the current issue of the volunteer newsletter. Tuesday and Thursday volunteer groups are restricted to a limited number of places. Other volunteer opportunities of an ecological nature include seasonal butterfly transect surveying, botanical surveys, habitat appraisal and footpath and visitor surveys. To read Waymarker you need Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer - you can download a free copy
by clicking the link below.
You can email us at AONB volunteers
Tasks Undertaken Each year we do a tremendous amount of practical work. We manage large areas of species and herb-rich limestone grassland and seasonally maintain a number of ponds around the AONB. Signposting, waymarking and maintenance of the public rights of way network are carried out and a vast amount of litter is collected. Examples of work undertaken over a year include:
Other Opportunities There are other volunteering opportunities within the AONB with the following organisations
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