Conservation Volunteer (Ellesmere Port, Chester)

Canal & River Trust; Ellesmere Port; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A conservation organization is seeking Conservator Volunteers in Ellesmere Port to help maintain and restore waterways. Volunteers will engage in maintenance, heritage restoration, and environmental enhancements while learning new skills and improving community well-being. This role offers a chance to work outdoors and be part of a supportive team.

Benefits

Spending time outdoors

Learning new skills with potential accreditation

Keeping fit

Meeting new and friendly people

Supportive team environment

Improved wellbeing

Responsibilities

• Day to day maintenance of waterways.
• Conduct heritage restoration activities.
• Remove graffiti from structures.
• Enhance environmental features like hedgelaying.
• Create new access points with improved steps or ramps.

Skills

Willing to learn new skills

Ability to travel to remote locations

Job description

Overview

Join us today to become a Conservator Volunteer 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 our more urban locations, our Conservators do a fantastic job of making sure there’s plenty of beauty on the doorstep. This is a great opportunity to make a huge difference in your community whilst learning more about the canals in your area.

Why we want you

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

Our Conservator Volunteers help to tackle some of our toughest issues on the waterways, ensuring as much of the canal is accessible and well maintained as possible. Each year we face new challenges in managing our increasingly popular space and your support as a Conservator Volunteer will help to achieve our goals in keeping canals alive.

Whilst we have regular teams carrying out important tasks, some run on more of a ‘project’ basis to achieve specific activities (rebuilding a section of stone wall or carrying out some mass planting) meaning that different people can give their time in different ways.

What you will be doing

• Day to day maintenance
• Heritage restoration
• Graffiti Removal
• Environmental enhancements such as hedgelaying
• Creating new access points by building or improved steps or ramps
• When you register as a volunteer, we will ask you about any unspent convictions which you need to declare and risk assess these as needs be.

The skills you need

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

What\u2019s 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 of colleagues and volunteers
• Seeing improvements to your wellbeing