Conservation Volunteer (Sims Volunteer Work Party)

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

Job summary

Join Canal & River Trust as a Conservator Volunteer to help keep history alive while maintaining the beautiful waterways of Gloucester. This role offers an opportunity for personal growth, environmental stewardship, and community service while working outdoors and meeting new people.

Benefits

Spending time outdoors

Learning new skills with possible accreditation

Keeping fit

Meeting new and friendly people

Being part of a supportive team

Seeing improvements to your wellbeing

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day maintenance of waterways.
• Heritage restoration and environmental enhancements.

Skills

Willingness to learn new skills

Ability to travel to remote locations

Job description

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, such as cutting back vegetation around aqueducts, or tackling graffiti in urban locations, our Conservators do a fantastic job of ensuring there’s plenty of beauty on the doorstep. This is a great opportunity to make a significant difference in your community while learning more about the canals in your area.

Why we want you

Our Conservator volunteers help 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.

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

While we have regular teams carrying out important tasks, some work on a project basis to achieve specific activities, such as rebuilding a section of stone wall or carrying out mass planting. This allows different people to contribute in various 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 improving steps or ramps
• When you register as a volunteer, we will ask about any unspent convictions, which you need to declare and risk assess 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