Volunteers - Rhiannon Route
Volunteering
Volunteering with us!
We depend on the support of our volunteers, who come from all walks of life, with a range of skills and experience, to help create a Somerset rich in wildlife for everyone. We aim to make volunteering at Somerset Wildlife Trust a welcoming and rewarding experience, supporting volunteers with training and recognition.
We've been busily writing an Action Plan for 2025–2030 which sets out our five-year plan for volunteering, setting out how we hope volunteers will support the Trust to achieve our strategy goals, how the Trust will support volunteers to do this, and how volunteering opportunities will evolve. We hope you will find it engaging and informative!
It’s good for my wellbeing… you get that sense of feeling good from being outside, but also feeling good from doing something that’s protecting the landscape that I love. It's giving something back, isn’t it, really?”
What can I do?
Somerset Wildlife Trust volunteers do a range of roles, from supporting the membership team in the office, to identifying plants in the grassland, pulling up invasive plants on our nature reserves, checking on our ponies, raising money to continue our important work for nature and working with children and families to inspire a life-long love of nature.
All volunteer roles have a written role profile of what is involved. This will cover areas such as location and times of work, specific tasks and who will help you.
A great benefit is that you do meet a lot of interesting people that you wouldn’t otherwise ever have met and have a chat with them and you might find that you have a mutual interest - it’s nice to be sociable!SWT Volunteer
Get in touch
Find out more about volunteering by emailing volunteering@somersetwildlife.org