Volunteering opportunities

Waltham Town Lock Clean Up - Thursday 24 January 2019

Starts: 24 January 2019

Waltham Town Lock, River Lee, London

Activities: One off or a taster, Outdoors, Practical

Join us on Thursday 24 January to help clean up the River Lee towpath at Waltham Cross. We're joining forces with volunteers from Lee Valley Park to tackle litter and cut back overgrown vegetation to help make the river a safer, cleaner and more welcoming place for all visitors.

Film and Media volunteer:Gloucester & Sharpness Canal

Starts: 14 November 2018 to 31 March 2019

Closing Date: 31 March 2019

Gloucester & Sharpness canal, Gloucestershire

Activities: Marketing and promotion

We are looking for a volunteer with film-making skills who can create a film about the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal. The nearly 200-year canal, which runs for 16 miles from Sharpness Port to Gloucester Docks was once the broadest and longest in the world. Even today, it stands out from other navigations...

Film and Media volunteer: Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal,South Wales

Starts: 14 November 2018 to 31 March 2019

Closing Date: 31 March 2019

Mon & Brec Canal, Powys, S Wales

Activities: Marketing and promotion

We are looking for a volunteer with film-making skills who can create a film about the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal. Meandering through the Welsh countryside the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal is one of our most beautiful and peaceful waterways following the line of the Usk Valley through the Brecon...

Towpath Taskforce - Rotherham

Starts: 25 January 2019 Recurring

Rotherham

Activities: Practical

Join us on the fourth Friday of every month, 10am to 1pm, for an enjoyable day’s work on the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation in Rotherham. We’ll be tackling a variety of tasks, including painting, litter picking, cutting back vegetation and planting. All tools and equipment will be provided, together...

Tees Barrage Volunteer Day

Starts: 31 January 2019 Recurring

Activities: Practical

The Tees Barrage volunteer group will carry out a range of practical tasks including painting, planting, woodland management and path creation, all around the site of the Tees Barrage.

Stoppage Works Farmers Bridge Locks

Starts: 4 February 2019 to 15 March 2019

Birmingham, Birmingham & Fazeley Canal, West Midlands

Activities: Practical

This is a fantastic opportunity to assist in Direct services stoppage programme on the Winter Lock closures and Open Days at Farmers Bridge Locks on the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal. The works will commence on the 4th Februrary 2019 and will last for 6 weeks. Tasks will vary with site set up, assisting...

Towpath Taskforce - Knottingley

Starts: 7 February 2019 Recurring

Activities: Practical

Knottingley Towpath Taskforce meets on the first Thursday of the month from 10am-1pm. We carry out a range of tasks along the canal through Knottingley including painting, litter clearance, cutting back vegetation and planting. All tools and equipment will be provided, together with expert and friendly...

Winter works volunteering - Grand Union South

Starts: 22 October 2018 to 1 March 2019

Closing Date: 1 March 2019

Tring, Grand Union Canal, Hertfordshire

Activities: Practical

Join our Direct Services teams this winter on our winter stoppage programme. This is a fantastic chance for you to volunteer with our local construction teams in helping to deliver our winter works programme. Between October and March we will be working at multiple sites along the Grand Union South working...

Volunteer Lock Keeper 2019 - Tuel Lane Lock, Rochdale Canal, Sowerby Bridge

Starts: 28 February 2019

Closing Date: 31 January 2019

Soweby Bridge, Rochdale Canal, West Yorkshire

Activities: Outdoors, Practical, Regularly, Working with visitors

Lock keepers have been a fixture on Britain’s canals for hundreds of years and are one of the oldest traditions of the waterways. As ‘the face of the waterway’, modern-day volunteer lock keepers play an integral part in the visitor experience. Their role is to provide a polite and friendly welcome to...

Bath workboat volunteers - every Tuesday

Starts: 11 December 2018

Closing Date: 30 June 2019

Bath

Activities: Boating, Outdoors, Practical, Regularly

Bath Volunteers have recently launched a new workboat 'Sulis' and are looking for new crew members and helmsman. The workboat and crew will be volunteering on the K&A Canal and River Avon. Tasks include clearing offside vegetation, carrying out small maintenance tasks, painting lock gates and assisting...