Kent prisoners ‘step up’ and make homes for tree sparrows
Inmates from HM Prison, Rochester, stepped up for nature by building 50 new tree sparrow nest boxes as part of a project to save some of the last populations of tree sparrows in South...
It’s not just about internships on our reserves!
Throughout the year you will find many different volunteer intern opportunities offered to enable you to gain experience, skills and behaviours that can assist you develop and create the potential...
Why not get your employer involved with us and help your staff to learn new skills and step up for nature with the RSPB.
Team challenges build team-working skills and by taking part in a team challenge, you can make a difference to wildlife conservation...
At Gardeners’ World Live, The Royal Horticultural Society provided our RSPB events team with a large space, free of charge; on the condition we produce an attractive, educational feature.Visitors were fascinated by the swallow facts displayed and...
Tropical forests are home to 6 million species, including some of the world's most enigmatic and endangered wildlife. They provide food, water and medicines, and act as carbon stores to help in the fight against climate change.
But tropical forests...
After many weeks of preparation, Love Nature Week 2012 kicks off today!
And it’s the weather glorious for it? We’ve got buckets of sunshine, and sunshine coloured buckets. It’s all set to be a fantastic fundraising event. In the Midlands 74 volunteers...
So, what’s the best thing you can do with a bucket?
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been blogging about many of the creative things you can do with a bucket – make a life raft, fashion a lampshade, mould a giant Easter egg, or create a...
This week we are going mad for the new Minsmere visitor Centre.... I caught up with Louise Gregory, Volunteer Development Officer at Minsmere to find out more......
Hi Louise, I hear that a lot has been happening at Minsmere...
We’ve been very busy...
This week I’ve been busy counting. Counting volunteers, counting down days, and counting raindrops.
Another thing I’m counting quickly at the moment is the seconds spent in the shower. Now that the infamous drought it upon us, folks in the south...
The May Bank Holiday is on the horizon. That can only mean one thing – awful British weather!
When I booked my cycling-camping adventure several weeks ago the weather forecast wasn’t predicting frost and flooding. You know how it is - a five minute...
Congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (aka Will and Kate) who are celebrating their first wedding anniversary today. Since we have the word “Royal” in our name then it is only fitting that the RSPB pays tribute to the happy occasion....
Love Nature Week is on the horizon - the fundraising event is only one month away! Volunteers could find themselves as a tiger, monkey or even a bumblebee...
Yesterday morning an exciting package arrived at the RSPB’s Midlands office in Banbury. It contained...
Following on from my last blog, I thought it would be interesting to hear how it was for a couple of our volunteers. Do you use your professional skills for us or another organisation, if so, leave me a comment and share with what you do, and how you...
So are you interested? Do you want to know more? Here are the some of the existing roles and the volunteers that undertake them ....
In our Eastern England region we have:
Ian Shakespeare who is a Fire Safety Advisor His line manager, Dave Bingham
In honour of the RSPB’s Big Yellow Fundraising Buckets, I’m writing a list of 101 Things to Do with a Bucket and I want your suggestions. Share them by posting a comment or Twittter #101buckets . Tweet me directly @RSPBMidlands
It’s been...
Following...
101 Things to Do with a Bucket: How to make a super-sized fat feeder
It wouldn’t be a British bank holiday without a good bit of British weather – showers, low temperatures, cloud, more showers, ooh – 5 minutes of sunshine, then drizzle...
In the current economic climate, people are looking to add to their CV, broaden their skills and experience and offer their “expertise” to charitable organisations. Why not challenge yourself and make new contacts too!
So what do they do...
Midland’s Community Fundraiser, Dana Rock is looking for 101 interesting things to do with a bucket...now there’s an invitation! Add Love Nature Week to your Bucket List...and help the RSPB save nature.
Ride a camel? Cycle across America...
Hooray - the new 2012 Residential Volunteering brochure “Do Something Different” has just come back from the printers. Every year we spend a lot of time and energy to make our brochure appealing and exciting – so those who read it are inspired to...
It's Valentines' day tomorrow and I'm already planning the dinner I've promised to cook my other half. No doubt we will talk about how we met - which gives me a great topic for my volunteering blog this week...and I don't care if you think it's soppy...
What a day we had in Glenariff last Friday on the second of our stepping up for corncrake nettle gathering work parties...
As many people over a certain age will remember (please note I am trying to be kind here!) the corncrake was once a familiar...
It has been really interesting following the Conservation Intern Diary and I’m really pleased to introduce one for the Lodge Reserve. Carol Waller works full time in the Volunteering Development Dept and still finds time to volunteer in a variety of roles...
Micro volunteering is the buzz word in our office at the moment, little steps that make a massive different to our conservation work. Coming up at the end of January is our fantastic BGBW, don’t forget to get involved for an hour by counting birds in...