There are lots of different ways you could give your time to help us in our mission to protect amphibians and reptiles! We aim to make volunteering with us as fun and rewarding as possible, so that you get as much out of it as the wildlife you are helping.
You don’t always need knowledge or experience to get started, and we can often tailor volunteering posts around your needs and interests whether it be practical work digging ponds, helping our education team on a session or using your IT skills to help improve our web presence.
Listed below are just some of the opportunities available for potential volunteers. If you have a particular volunteer post in mind, but can’t find it here, please get in touch and we will see what we can do for you: info@froglife.org
Froglife Reserves
Currently Froglife manages three nature reserves on behalf of the landowners, each located near
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
Tasks can include:
- Scrub clearance
- Creating egg-laying sites for grass snakes
- Pond management
- Creating hibernacula
- Species surveying (birds, butterflies and water voles, as well as amphibians and reptiles)
Contact our Reserve Warden at: clare.middleton@froglife.org for further information or take a look at our events page for information on volunteer and survey days.
Green Pathways
If you love being outdoors, enjoy inspiring young people and thrive on making a practical difference to gardens or other habitats, Green Pathways is the perfect project for you.
We are currently looking for hardy volunteers to help with all aspects of the project from fundraising to promotion but especially to work alongside the young people. Training in working with vulnerable teenagers will be provided along with appropriate DBS checks. Other training needs will be discussed with individual volunteers and provided if possible.
Glasgow- louise.smith@froglife.org
Green Pathways for Life
We run hands-on projects enabling people with dementia to improve their local green spaces for nature, and to learn about and share their own knowledge of the local environment. This benefits the project participants, local wildlife and communities. Contact our regional project officers below:
Glasgow- louise.smith@froglife.org
London- dylan.jackson-french@froglife.org
Somerset (Frome)- zak.mathergratton@froglife.org
London Blue Chain
This exciting project will benefit amphibians, reptiles and people by complementing the popular London Green Chain walking route! The Blue Chain will improve the existing route for nature and for people by creating and restoring ponds and wildlife corridors to enhance habitats and connectivity for amphibians and reptiles.
Contact: harry.forshaw@froglife.org to find out how you can help.
Coalface to Wildspace
Our Coalface to Wildspace projects work across the Midlands, Scotland and soon Yorkshire connecting
urban habitats and communities with nature. With the ever-increasing demand for land and the changing climate we need to protect and improve what habitat we have. The planned creation and restoration of pond and land habitats with these projects will have a positive impact on the amphibians, reptiles and other animals that live there, many of which are in rapid decline.
To find out more please contact:
Midlands: Christina.Nijjar@froglife.org or visit the project’s web page
Scotland: mark.chambers@froglife.org or visit the project’s web page
Yorkshire: (coming soon)
Toads on Roads
There are two main opportunities to help:
Help Froglife with this long standing national project, that seeks to alleviate the problem of amphibian migration routes and habitat fragmentation. Find out more here. Contact toads@froglife.org if you are interested. To volunteer at your nearest registered patrol – use our map to find your nearest crossing and contact the group directly (if there are no registered patrollers on the site, your email will be sent to Froglife).
Click here to find other ways to support Froglife.