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Join Canal & River Trust as a Conservator Volunteer to maintain vital waterways while enhancing your skills. Engage in hands-on tasks including maintenance, restoration, and community support, all while enjoying the benefits of outdoor work and teamwork in a supportive environment.
**Weekend Support for Canal & River Trust**. Are you looking for a hands-on way to make a difference? Join our East London team and help maintain our waterways one weekend a month on the River Stort and River Lee.
**Why It Matters:** Our canals and rivers are vital for wildlife, heritage, and local communities, but they need care to thrive. By volunteering, you’ll play a key role in preserving these essential spaces while helping others enjoy their benefits. Spending time by the water is also great for mental and physical health, offering a sense of calm and connection with nature.
**What You’ll Do:**
**What’s Included:**
**Where could you be:**
- London East covers Tottenham in the South, all the way up to Hertford in the North West, and Bishop’s Stortford in the North East. Our operational base is at Enfield Lock.
Be part of this exciting opportunity to support the upkeep of our iconic rivers and gain skills that last a lifetime. Apply today to get started!
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
The skills you need
What's in it for you