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 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.
Peterborough and Fenland Region- info@froglife.org
Scotland- 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- amy.stocking@froglife.org
Somerset (Frome)- zak.mathergratton@froglife.org
Peterborough Neighbourhood Wildlife Corridors
Froglife’s Peterborough Neighbourhood Wildlife Corridors Project helps vulnerable and disadvantaged young people to take part in positive activities linked to wildlife and conservation.
If you enjoy inspiring young people and want to help on sessions, get in touch with our Project Officer: rachel.coyle@froglife.org
Training in working with vulnerable young people will be provided along with appropriate DBS checks. Other training needs will be discussed with individual volunteers and provided if possible.
Discovering Dewponds
This project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, will be working with Brighton & Hove City Council and the South Downs National Park Authority to create nine dewponds, working closely with land managers to achieve conservation goals. The project will also be working with local communities to create Neighbourhood Wildlife Corridors, improving local green spaces, parks and school grounds for wildlife. Alongside the habitat work the project will be delivering a wide ranging programme of public engagement including working with local groups to gather wildlife memories.
Contact: william.johanson@froglife.org to find out more.
London Blue Chain
This exciting project will benefit amphibians, reptiles and people by expanding the successful London Green Chain walking route to create a London Blue Chain! The Blue Chain will improve the existing route for nature and for people by installing new ponds and wildlife corridors to increase and improve habitats and the connectivity for amphibians and reptiles.
Contact: kelvin.shewry@froglife.org to find out more.
Coalface to Wildspace: Midlands
We run wildlife gardening workshops across the region. This will involve working in eight neighborhoods across Walsall to create wildlife corridors to improve the area for amphibians and reptiles.
We are creating an exciting digital film on local geological, natural, and social history and will be holding film screenings at local schools and community venues. The film will be focusing on the history and heritage present under the surface of the current visible landscape and connecting this to our 8 key sites and the wildlife that now lives there, particularly reptiles and amphibians.
Contact Christina.Nijjar@froglife.org to find out more.
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).
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