Volunteer Conservation Rangers at Stanmer Park
If you are aged between 16 and 25 please join us for hands on practical work at Stanmer Park, Brighton. The aim is to further improve the park for people and wildlife while having fun, learning new skills, gaining valuable experience and enhancing job and other volunteering prospects. No experience necessary. Everybody is very welcome and kept very busy with lots of work to do.
Dates & times:
We meet every Thursday and work from 10.00 - 15.00.
We meet outside Stanmer House in Stanmer Park.
We work on . . . Fire lighting, Bushcraft & green woodworking, tool use, planting and composting, meadow planting, surveying and monitoring wildlife, pond maintenance, enhancing habitats, coppicing, bird/bat boxes, toad abodes, hedge planting, vegetable growing, hurdle making. Other skills and activities (negotiable)
Recently we have been clearing the Stanmer Park of thousands of tree guards which has dramatically improved the appearance of many parts of the woods; built hurdles with materials we coppiced earlier in the year; created several new Forest School sites, installed deer fencing, planted fruit trees and tickled tadpoles in the pond in our wildlife garden!
Whenever we meet we usually have a fire and make a warm drink with a storm kettle and practise basic bush-craft. Most Thursdays we are able to cook up lunch and other snacks on the fire.
In addition to the above we are working on developing Sussex Wildlife Trust's wildlife garden in Stanmer Park. This involves meadow planting and maintenance, orchard planting, hedge laying, monitoring wildlife and much more.
Please wear strong shoes, a long-sleeved top and trousers and bring a packed lunch.
Interested?
Please contact Renzo Spano, Youth Volunteer Co-ordinator
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Mobile: 07795 528 312
The project will pay any bus or train fares.
The Viva Veolia Project is an England-wide flagship youth volunteering project, delivered by The Wildlife Trusts on behalf of the Veolia Environmental Trust and v, the youth volunteering charity.
The Viva Veolia Project will establish a Youth Ranger team on this site, working with over 100 young volunteers over the next two years.
For other volunteering opportunities with Sussex Wildlife Trust please click here
