Whether you want to improve the environment, your health or your career prospects, we can help.
BTCV in East Sussex offer a range of opportunities for people from every background regardless of age or experience.
In the last 12 months we have worked with volunteers on 26 sites completing 1,583 work days. A further 2,813 days of environmental practical work have been completed by our trainees, and 391 healthy walks have involved local people in physical acticity.
Our practical conservation team meet every Wednesday, tackling a range of tasks across a wide variety of sites and habitats. You might be coppicing one week and clearing a pond the next, and working alongside like-minded people making a tangible difference to your local green spaces can be very rewarding.
To find out more about volunteering and our Wednesday group click here.
Across Sussex lies the High Weald - long identified as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) - with it's rolling hills, scattered farmsteads and woodlands. Now you can work with BTCV to help preserve this medieval landscape and its valuable ancient forests by becoming part of the Weald Forest Ridge Project.
If you do not fancy getting quite so physically active why not amble along to one of our Health Walks. They are free, sociable and could improve your health dramatically.
BTCV also created the innovative and award-winning Green Gym concept, where volunteers ‘work out’ in the fresh air at conservation tasks rather than on exercise machines at the gym. There are several groups in the area, the most recent operating at Bedgebury National Pinetum. The other two groups (originally set up by us, but now run entirely by the volunteers themselves) serve the areas around Battle, Bexhill and Rye. Click here for contact information.
Are you aged between 16 and 25? We have a variety of opportunities particularly aimed at younger would-be volunteers focused on the Ninfield Study Centre near Hastings and various sites across Mid Sussex.
If you want to brush up your skills and knowledge we also run a series of short courses. These range from subjects such as chainsaw and brushcutter operation to organisational skills to help the success and sustainability of local community groups taking up the conservation challenge, whether it be promoting composting or caring for a local green space.
For those more serious about environmental learning we run practical environmental training courses at levels 1 and 2 covering a range of land management skills, providing a perfect grounding for a wide range of countryside careers and the chance to gain industry recognition for the safe use of specialist machinery.
To gain valuable experience for you CV, or just to get more involved in our work, you could become a Volunteer Officer, supporting our staff preparing for and running projects with volunteers and trainees.
If you are a private landowner or manage an area of countryside and would like BTCV volunteers or trainees to carry out some work on your site please get in touch. For more information click here.
For further information please contact us:
BTCV
Ninfield Study Centre
Potmans Lane
Catsfield
Battle
East Sussex
TN33 9BJ
Tel: 01424 446395
Email: East-Sussex@btcv.org.uk
