Archive of: Volunteering
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11 August 2024
Ann Griffiths memorial bench at Levin Down
Bench on Levin Down to commemorate a very special Volunteer Reserve Manager Ann Griffiths
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19 July 2024
Meet Colin Newton - Community Volunteer
Colin Newton has been visiting Rye Harbour Nature Reserve for over 60 years. He’s just taken on a new volunteer role as one of our Community Volunteers.
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23 June 2024
Tuesday Hit Squad at Malling Down nature reserve
Julia Hoare talks about a great morning spent with the Tuesday Hit Squad at Malling Down, and about how the staff team support and encourage volunteers
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07 June 2024
Meet Charles Ashe - Volunteer Reserve Manager
Meet Volunteer Reserve Manager for West Dean woods, Charles Ashe and find out about the reserve and the coppicing regime that happens here
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03 June 2024
A volunteering double act
It’s Volunteers Week 2024 and we’d like to introduce husband and wife, Janet and Peter Mann. Find out what’s kept them volunteering at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve for the last seven years.
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02 June 2024
Volunteers reminisce part 3. Setting up SxBRC, Seasearch, Shoresearch and more
Gerald Legg tells us about decades of volunteering out on reserves with his Land Rover, helping to set up the Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre, as well as supporting Shoresearch
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25 April 2024
Volunteers reminisce part 2. Woods Mill
We hear from Christine Dafter, who has been an Education Volunteer at Woods Mill for many years
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23 April 2024
Volunteers reminisce, part 1. The joy of Ebernoe
In the second of a series of three blogs about volunteering for the Trust, we hear from retiring Ebernoe volunteer, Mary Travers. Huge thanks to Mary for all her incredible volunteering work for the Trust over the years.
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01 January 2024
Discover Rye Harbour - 2023 review
During 2023, the delivery of the Discover Rye Harbour project moved into its third and final year with a bumper load of activities.
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23 November 2023
A Good Reed
Volunteer, Peter Burnett, tells us about his mission to create the perfect reedbed at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve.
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20 November 2023
Meet our volunteers: Bill Young
Bill Young has a been a volunteering with the Trust for 45 years, most recently at Levin Down. He tells us all about it.
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19 November 2023
Pleaching, bill hooks and plodgers. Hedge laying with Wilder Horsham District
Emma Chaplin joins the Wilder Horsham District staff and volunteer team, as they spend a day hedge laying