Kick Start volunteering
Volunteering on the Eastern Moors was kick started on Sunday with a highly successful Volunteer Taster Day. Aiming to recruit willing and enthusiastic volunteers to help with the mammoth task of looking after the magnificent Eastern Moors, the taster day led the team well on their way to achieving their goal.
35 members of the public turned out on the cold but sunny day, and brought along with them their energy and desire to help! Many spent either a half or full day, having a go at small tree felling in Curbar Woods with Senior Warden, Kim Strawbridge, and surveying habitats on Big Moor with Projects Manager, Rachel Bennett.
The Eastern Moors team are delighted by the response and now have a long list of people wanting to find out more about volunteering. From practical conservation tasks to improving visitor infrastructure, delivering family events and adult learning to developing websites and social media, surveying visitor perception to designing ‘invisible’ interpretation, carrying out species surveying to monitoring vegetation structure; the volunteering opportunities are endless.
If you think you might like to volunteer with the Eastern Moors team, contact us to find out more. Email enquiries@easternmoors.org.uk
