Conservation Volunteer (Towpath notifications team.)

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

Job summary

A leading conservation organization is seeking volunteers to assist in maintaining the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. Responsibilities include environmental enhancements, heritage restoration, and day-to-day maintenance tasks. This is an opportunity to spend time outdoors, learn new skills, and contribute positively to the local environment. Volunteers will receive necessary training and join a supportive team. Ideal candidates are willing to learn and able to travel to remote locations.

Benefits

Spending time outdoors

Learning new skills

Keeping fit

Meeting new and friendly people

Being part of a supportive team

Qualifications

• Some DIY and construction knowledge is preferable, but all training will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Day to day maintenance along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
• Heritage restoration of the canal.
• Environmental enhancements such as hedgelaying.
• Graffiti removal to maintain the canal's appearance.

Skills

Willing to learn new skills

Ability to travel to remote locations

Job description

Our towpath notifications team are a small group, who head out along the Huddersfield Narrow Canal carrying out minor repairs to the canal and surrounding area. This role involves meeting at pre determined locations to maintain and repair specific items along the canal.

There is a mixture of different activities from fencing and dry stone walling repairs to boundaries through to vegetation management and asset repairs.

Some DIY and construction knowledge is preferable, but all training will be provided, including the use of a range of different tools.

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'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