Conservation Volunteer (Brighouse)

Canal & River Trust; Brighouse; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Canal & River Trust as a Conservator Volunteer in Brighouse to help maintain and enhance the local waterways. Experience a variety of outdoor conservation tasks, meet new people, and contribute to the preservation of the environment and community wellbeing. This role offers a rewarding opportunity to learn new skills while actively participating in heritage and nature conservation.

Benefits

Spending time outdoors

Learning new skills with potential accreditation

Keeping fit

Meeting new and friendly people

Being part of a supportive team

Improvements to your wellbeing

Qualifications

• Willingness to learn and take part in conservation activities.
• Ability to travel to various locations for tasks.

Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day maintenance of waterways.
• Participate in heritage restoration and graffiti removal.
• Engage in environmental enhancements like hedgelaying.

Skills

Willingness to learn new skills

Ability to travel to remote locations

Job description

Join us today to become a Conservator Volunteer at Brighouse and be part of the team keeping history alive by preserving our waterways. In this role, you’ll get to experience the many faces and locations of our beautiful network and help maintain our structures and assets. Whether it’s working on pre-planned maintenance, cutting back vegetation around aqueducts, or tackling graffiti in urban locations, our Conservators ensure there’s plenty of beauty on the doorstep. This is a great opportunity to make a difference in your community while learning more about local canals.

Why we want you

Our Conservator volunteers help maintain our network, carrying out heritage and nature conservation activities, as well as everyday tasks like painting or litter picking to improve the local environment.

They help address challenges on the waterways, ensuring accessible and well-maintained canals. Each year, new challenges arise with the increasing popularity of these spaces. Your support will help us achieve our goals of keeping canals vibrant and accessible.

Some tasks are regular, while others are project-based, such as rebuilding stone walls or planting, allowing volunteers to contribute in various ways.

What you will be doing

• Day-to-day maintenance
• Heritage restoration
• Graffiti removal
• Environmental enhancements like hedgelaying
• Creating new access points with building or improving steps and ramps
• When registering as a volunteer, we will ask about any unspent convictions for risk assessment purposes.

The skills you need

• Willingness to learn new skills
• Ability to travel to remote locations

What's in it for you

• Spending time outdoors
• Learning new skills, some with external accreditation
• Keeping fit
• Meeting new and friendly people
• Being part of a supportive team
• Seeing improvements to your wellbeing