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Conservation Volunteer (Environment Team - South Oxford)

Want to learn new skills and help improve the ecology along the canal? Join us on the South Oxford Canal today as part of a team that will work across out area from Claydon to Oxford. We will be planting native plant species, laying and maintaining hedges, and doing work for ecologists. Help us look after our nature reserves and conservation zones, and protect our wildlife on the waterways.

Our Conservator Volunteers help to tackle some of our toughest issues on the waterways, ensuring as much of the canal is accessible and well maintained as possible. Each year we face new challenges in managing our increasingly popular space and your support as a Conservator Volunteer will help to achieve our goals in keeping canals alive.

Why we want you

Our Conservator volunteers help to maintain our network, carrying out important heritage and nature conservation activities as well as everyday tasks to improve the local environment such as painting or litter picking.

Our Conservator Volunteers help to tackle some of our toughest issues on the waterways, ensuring as much of the canal is accessible and well maintained as possible. Each year we face new challenges in managing our increasingly popular space and your support as a Conservator Volunteer will help to achieve our goals in keeping canals alive.

Whilst we have regular teams carrying out important tasks, some run on more of a ‘project’ basis to achieve specific activities (rebuilding a section of stone wall or carrying out some mass planting) meaning that different people can give their time in different ways.

What you will be doing

  • Day to day maintenance
  • Heritage restoration
  • Graffiti Removal
  • Environmental enhancements such as hedgelaying
  • Creating new access points by building or improved steps or ramps
  • When you register as a volunteer, we will ask you about any unspent convictions which you need to declare and risk assess these as needs be.
  • The skills you need

  • Willing to learn new skills
  • Ability to travel to remote locations
  • What's in it for you

  • Spending time outdoors
  • Learning new skills (some with external accreditation).
  • Keeping fit
  • Meeting new and friendly people
  • Being part of a supportive team of colleagues and volunteers
  • Seeing improvements to your wellbeing
  • Conservation Volunteer (Environment Team - South Oxford)

    1 Middleton Cl, Banbury OX16 4SZ, UK
    Full-Time

    Published on 13/06/2025

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