Volunteering with the Westwood Team

There is always valuable and enjoyable work at Westwood for willing volunteers. They help to keep an eye on the Park, carry out practical projects with the rangers and help on events and activities. Some have specialist skills to offer such as wildlife surveying or fundraising.

The Westwood team involves volunteers in its work for a number of reasons

• To enable the team to expand the scope of the work that it undertakes
• To provide high quality 'on the job' training in countryside skills
• To enable people to help the environment at a local level (Agenda 21).
• Volunteer work is carried out at Westwood in a number of ways
• The Friends of Westwood are local people who want to become more involved in looking after the woodland park. They keep an eye on it, inform us of problems and help out on practical tasks, surveying or on events.
• Groups often volunteer their help at weekends. Many of these have an interest in natural history and offer their services in order to undertake practical habitat management. They include Southampton University Conservation Volunteers, Duke of Edinburgh award scheme groups or the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers.
• The team also works with full-time volunteers. People who work at Westwood full-time are often gaining experience in the field of conservation in order to find employment. People working on a full-time basis have the opportunity to undertake a much broader range of tasks than other volunteers.

If you would like more information about volunteering with the Westwood team then please contact us