Volunteering opportunities

YNE Standedge Tunnel - Boat Master & Guide

Starts: 1 December 2019

Closing Date: 31 January 2020

Standedge, Huddersfield Narrow Canal, Yorkshire, HD7 6NQ

Activities: Boating

We operate short boat trips through the tunnel between April to October. They run from 11am to 4pm during weekends and school holidays, slightly less at other times, according to demand. We are looking for people who can pilot the boat along the canal and into the tunnel. Other duties include daily checks...

Working Party - Aire & Calder

Starts: Anytime

Castleford Yard, Aire & Calder, , WF102LF

Activities: Practical

Would you like to join our working party?

Operational Admin Support Volunteer. Wolverhampton.

Starts: Anytime

Wolverhampton, Wyrley & Essington Canal, West Midlands, WV1 3DT

Activities: Administration, Administration and support, Customer service, Office-based, Regularly

Canal & River Trust’s West Midlands Waterway Wolverhampton/ Walsall section are looking for a volunteer to join their team to provide support with administrative duties, such as recording jobs with third parties, filing, scanning/ sending documents, recording completed tasks, working with other volunteers...

Explorers Education Volunteer - Bradford

Starts: Anytime

Closing Date: 1 May 2020

Bradford, Leeds Liverpool Canal, Yorkshire

Activities: Education, Working with visitors

We run hands on activities and visits with school, cub & brownie groups either on/by our waterways or in their classroom/clubhouse. All of our sessions are designed to inspire young people in heritage and geography of their local area as well as containng useful links to science, wildilfe or creative...

Explorers Education Volunteer - Wakefield

Starts: Anytime

Closing Date: 1 March 2020

Stanley Ferry, Aire & Calder, West Yorkshire, WF3 4LT

Activities: Education, Other specialist roles, Working with visitors

We run hands on activities and visits with school, cub & brownie groups either on/by our waterways or in their classroom/clubhouse. All of our sessions are designed to inspire young people in heritage and geography of their local area as well as containng useful links to science, wildilfe or creative...

Explorer Education Volunteer - Doncaster

Starts: Anytime

Closing Date: 1 May 2020

Doncaster, Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation, South Yorkshire, DN1 1PE

Activities: Education, Education volunteers, Working with visitors

We run hands on activities and visits with school, cub & brownie groups either on/by our waterways or in their classroom/clubhouse. All of our sessions are designed to inspire young people in heritage and geography of their local area as well as containng useful links to science, wildilfe or creative...

Explorers Education Volunteer - Dewsbury

Starts: Anytime

Closing Date: 6 December 2019

Dewsbury Arm, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, WF12 9BD

Activities: Education, Education volunteers

We run hands on activities and visits with school, cub & brownie groups either on/by our waterways or in their classroom/clubhouse. All of our sessions are designed to inspire young people in heritage and geography of their local area as well as containng useful links to science, wildilfe or creative...

Explorers Education Volunteer - Rotherham

Starts: Anytime

Closing Date: 6 December 2019

Rotherham, SSYN, South Yorkshire

Activities: Education, Education volunteers, Working with visitors

We run hands on activities and visits with school, cub & brownie groups either on/by our waterways or in their classroom/clubhouse. All of our sessions are designed to inspire young people in heritage and geography of their local area as well as containng useful links to science, wildilfe or creative...

Explorers Education volunteer - Saltaire

Starts: Anytime

Closing Date: 31 March 2020

Saltaire, Leeds & Liverpool Canal, West Yorkshire

Activities: Education, Working with visitors

We run hands on activities and visits with school, cub & brownie groups either on/by our waterways or in their classroom/clubhouse. All of our sessions are designed to inspire young people in heritage and geography of their local area as well as containng useful links to science, wildilfe or creative...

Operations Volunteer

Starts: 6 November 2019 to 6 November 2020

Activities: Outdoors, Practical

Volunteers are sought to be inbedded in the operations team, assisting staff in the day to day maintenance and running of the Peak Forest and Macclesfield Canals. Tasks are as varied as they are diverse, where no two days will be the same due to reactive nature of customer needs and the proactive nature...