Archive of: Volunteering

  • Up and running

    18 January 2017

    Up and running

    The Trust has set up a new volunteer group in Brighton

     
  • Bags of Fun

    08 November 2016

    Bags of Fun

    Thanks to a £3,000 donation from the Southern Co-operative’s ‘Love Your Neighbourhood’ campaign, we have been able to develop our work with children and young people.

     
  • Saturday Hit Squad at Malling Down

    14 September 2016

    Saturday Hit Squad at Malling Down

    Volunteers from the Saturday Hit Squad have been working hard on the South Downs

     
  • Converting to conservation

    22 February 2016

    Converting to conservation

    Craig Ifield aged 19, joined Wild About Worthing’s Youth Rangers 6 months ago on the recommendation of his Environmental Sciences teacher. Find out how he got on.

     
  • Pond Heroes

    18 February 2016

    Pond Heroes

    Five Sussex Wildlife Trust Youth Rangers aged 16-25 are restoring an overgrown pond at Thomas A Becket Junior School in Glebeside Avenue, Worthing. Pupils aged 7-11 will use it for pond dipping activities and learn all about the amazing world of underwater wildlife living right on their doorstep.

     
  • Volunteers rock on

    11 February 2016

    Volunteers rock on

    Sussex Wildlife Trust volunteers have been working tirelessly over the past few weeks at Eridge Rocks nature reserve near Crowborough, a majestic sandstone rock outcrop set in mixed woodland.

     
  • Let's Make Every Child Wild

    09 December 2015

    Let's Make Every Child Wild

    Wildlife Rangers Christmas bash at Seven Sisters Country Park on 12 December and Stanmer Park in Brighton on 22 December where we’ll be making festive wreaths, fire lighting, whittling and cooking

     
  • Making Meadows

    16 October 2015

    Making Meadows

    As far as the eye can see, volunteers are industriously fetching, carrying, digging and sowing - restoring a flower-rich meadow.

     
  • Starting them young at Seaford Head

    12 October 2015

    Starting them young at Seaford Head

    Read how our one of our volunteers is encouraging the next generation of wildlife lovers.

     
  • Wildlife Hit Squad needs you

    28 September 2015

    Wildlife Hit Squad needs you

    Sussex Wildlife Trust’s Saturday Conservation Hit Squad needs volunteers (aged 16+) to help keep their nature reserves in tip top shape. It’s good fun, good exercise and good for the wildlife of Sussex.

     
  • Beach sweep

    03 September 2015

    Beach sweep

    Sussex ShoreSearch is looking for volunteers. Join Sussex Wildlife Trust to help identify and record animals, plants and habitats at Saltdean Beach near Brighton on Monday 28 September, between 4:00pm – 6:00 pm.

     
  • Great news for Graffham Common

    25 August 2015

    Great news for Graffham Common

    A generous grant from Viridor Credits Environmental Company, via the Landfill Communities Fund, is helping to secure a sustainable future for the heathland restoration project at Graffham Common nature reserve.