Conservation Volunteer (Ferrybridge Lock)

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

Job summary

Join a leading organization focused on conservation by volunteering to maintain the historical waterways as a Conservation Volunteer. You'll engage in varied tasks such as light maintenance, heritage restoration, and environmental enhancements, all while enjoying the outdoors and learning new skills.

Benefits

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

Qualifications

• Must be willing to learn new skills.
• Ability to travel to remote locations is essential.

Responsibilities

• General light maintenance of the lock area, including painting, grass cutting, weeding.
• Heritage restoration and environmental enhancements.
• Day-to-day maintenance tasks as needed.

Skills

Willingness to learn new skills

Ability to travel to remote locations

Job description

Join us at Ferrybridge lock area to be part of a growing number of like-minded people who enjoy being outdoors and help us maintain this historic waterway as a conservation volunteer.

The role involves general light maintenance of the lock area, painting lock hardware and fencing, grass cutting, weeding, and keeping the area litter-free for all to enjoy. Volunteers will work on the Island towards Kings Mill.

This is an unsupervised opportunity once volunteers are confident in their role, with full support from a CRT team leader. The opportunity can be attended at your convenience once confident, initially on a weekday.

Why we want you

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

They help address challenges on the waterways, ensuring the canal is accessible and well maintained. Your support will help us keep the canals vibrant and accessible for everyone.

Some projects are conducted on a 'project basis' to achieve specific goals, such as rebuilding stone walls or planting, allowing volunteers to contribute 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 with building or improving steps or ramps
• Declaring any unspent convictions during registration and risk assessing as needed

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 of colleagues and volunteers
• Seeing improvements to your wellbeing