Volunteers

A special tribute from a special volunteer!

2020-02-21T11:39:00Z

Hilary Brooker-Carey, one of our many thousands of volunteers recently went the extra mile, using her time and experience on one of our reserves to produce an eye-catching display... Coquet Island, located less than a mile from the Northumberl...(read more)

Local groups - picture perfect!

2019-11-21T09:00:00Z

Your RSPB Local Group is the friendly face of the RSPB in the community. From inspiring talks with wildlife experts to nature walks for all ages and abilities, it’s a great way to engage with nature near you. In this last Local Groups special, ...(read more)

Local groups - a new perspective on a historic city

2019-11-14T09:00:00Z

Your RSPB Local Group is the friendly face of the RSPB in the community and a great way to engage with nature near you. Over the next few weeks we'll be taking a closer look at RSPB Local Groups. This week Alasdair Mckee talks about one of the mo...(read more)

Local groups - a fantastic way to spend my time

2019-11-07T09:00:00Z

Your RSPB Local Group is the friendly face of the RSPB in the community and a great way to engage with nature near you. Over the next few weeks we'll be taking a closer look at RSPB Local Groups. This week we chat to award-winning blogger Sarah H...(read more)

Local Groups - making a difference for nature

2019-10-31T09:00:00Z

Your RSPB Local Group is the friendly face of the RSPB in the community and a great way to engage with nature near you. Over the next few weeks we'll be taking a closer look at RSPB Local Groups. This week Andre Farrar looks back at the many ways Loc...(read more)

Countryside Jobs Service - 25 years of Volunteering change

2019-09-20T10:52:00Z

Countryside Jobs Service have helped the RSPB get in contact with amazing volunteers for many years. To mark their 25 year anniversary we asked them to tell us how the volunteering 'landscape' has changed for them in that time... Amount of Vo...(read more)

Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme Volunteer experience

2019-08-16T11:04:00Z

Write up from Finley, a DoE volunteer at Hazeley Heath I started volunteering at Hazeley Heath over a year ago for my Bronze Duke of Edinburgh award. My Mum and I cut gorse for hours in freezing, snowy conditions, unable to get a fire started, but (w...(read more)

Looking Forward: Corporate volunteering update, thank you HSBC UK!

2019-06-10T08:00:00Z

In 2018 the RSPB chose to shine a light on some of our fantastic staff volunteers from PriceWaterhouseCoopers at Chorlton Water Park, Manchester. This group of 13 formed one of dozens of corporate work parties across the UK each year that the RSPB re...(read more)

Overcoming adversity through volunteering

2019-06-08T08:00:00Z

Welcome back and thank you for joining us on our last National Volunteers’ week blog on the 8th! -because who says Friday has to be the end. Although National Volunteers’ week is a wonderful way to thank our volunteers, it’s importa...(read more)

Volunteering: One of the best chapters of my life

2019-06-07T08:00:00Z

Today’s Volunteers’ Week blog comes from Robin Brown, who describes his time volunteering at Portmore Lough as “immensely rewarding”… My volunteering with RSPB began in April 2012. I had retired from business sometime p...(read more)

I'm 13 and I volunteer - age is no barrier!

2019-06-06T08:00:00Z

Today’s Volunteers’ Week blog comes from thirteen-year-old Magnus, one of our youngest volunteers. For Magnus, volunteering has definitely been a journey of discovery. From wasp spiders to the Big Wild Sleepout, be inspired by his wild ad...(read more)

Connecting children with nature

2019-06-05T08:00:00Z

To celebrate Volunteer’s Week, Wendy Owen shares her story of volunteering for the RSPB as part of our schools’ outreach project through the RSPB ALDI Connecting Children to Nature partnership. This project has given me the chance...(read more)

Volunteering: good for health and wellbeing

2019-06-04T08:00:00Z

RSPB volunteer Tim Bishop relishes the opportunity to do something for the wildlife he loves, but it’s not just wildlife that benefits from his volunteering. In today’s blog for Volunteering Week, Tim explains how volunteering has helped ...(read more)

Now we have this fabulous experience in our retirement

2019-06-03T08:09:00Z

Retiree Janine Brown Jones shares the role of Volunteer Coordinator for RSPB Aire Valley with Chris Partridge. Read today’s Volunteering Week blog to find out why she thinks volunteering is fabulous... Chris and I “role-share&rdquo...(read more)

Ten wonderful years of volunteering

2019-06-02T08:07:00Z

As part of National Volunteers’ Week, today’s blog was written by 19-year-old Dominik Reynolds, who started volunteering with the RSPB at just eight years old. Read on to find out why Dom thinks volunteering helped him get a place at Bris...(read more)