Volunteering opportunities

Museum Assistant Volunteers: Gloucester Waterways Museum

Starts: 18 May 2021 to 30 November 2021

Closing Date: 30 November 2021

Gloucester, Gloucester & Sharpness Canal, Gloucestershire

Activities: Practical, Administration, Customer Service, Interpretation & Promotion

Housed in a warehouse at the heart of Gloucester's fine Victorian Docks, Gloucester Waterways Museum tells the story of our wonderful canals and rivers. Volunteers are at the heart of the museum supporting a diverse range of opportunities.

Volunteer Licensing Ranger. Great Haywood, Stafford, Sandon and Wolseley

Starts: 1 June 2021

Stafford to Great Haywood Junction& potentially Sandon to Wolseley.

Activities:

Volunteer Licensing Rangers are part of the Canal & River Trust’s team supporting our boating customers through gathering data, passing on crucial messages and identifying problems. They are the eyes and ears of the Trust on priority stretches of waterway, a friendly face who is happy engaging with...

Volunteer Licensing Ranger. Stratford upon Avon to Wilmcote

Starts: 1 June 2021

South Stratford Canal from Stratford upon Avon to Wilmcote (& potentially beyond as far as Kingswood Junction at Lapworth)

Activities:

Volunteer Licensing Rangers are part of the Canal & River Trust’s team supporting our boating customers through gathering data, passing on crucial messages and identifying problems. They are the eyes and ears of the Trust on priority stretches of waterway, a friendly face who is happy engaging with...

PPM works Grand Union South 2021

Starts: 7 June 2021 to 3 December 2021

Activities:

Working with the operations team and volunteers, you will be moving along the Grand Union South canal completing various pre-planned maintenance tasks. These tasks can be anything from tightening bolts on lock gates, to repairing beams, cutting back vegetation, and lots more.

Pop Up Visitor Welcome Station Volunteer (based at Delph Locks on the Dudley Canal. West Midlands.)

Starts: 2 June 2021 to 31 October 2021

Based at an external pop-up welcome station at Delph Locks, Dudley Canal

Activities:

This role would suit someone looking to engage with a variety of people in a friendly atmosphere, learn more about our waterways and, or share their knowledge about the local area, canals and rivers.

Seal Survey 2021

Starts: 1 June 2021 to 31 October 2021

Tees Barrage, Stockton on Tees

Activities:

We are looking for volunteers to monitor the number of Grey and Harbour Seals present in the River at the Tees Barrage. This is to monitor the number of seals at the barrage and their feeding activity.

Volunteer Walk Leaders Grand Union South 2021

Starts: 11 May 2021 to 19 November 2021

Milton Keynes

Activities: Outdoors

As a volunteer walk leader, you will be helping people in your community to get active and healthy, providing vital support that they otherwise might not get. As well as ensuring walks are friendly, and well run, walk leaders are also our ambassadors for walking, showing people that walking really can...

Nottingham & Beeston Canal Towpath Taskforce

Starts: 1 June 2021 to 31 January 2022

Closing Date: 30 July 2021

Notts Beeston Canal

Activities: Practical, Environment, Outdoors, Plastic & Litter Clearance, Boating, One off or a taster, Regularly

Come along and support us for our new Nottingham Towpath Taskforce, working with a team of volunteers to enhance the Notts Beeston Canal which runs through the centre of Nottingham. The team will meet alternate Tuesdays and the days will run from 9.30am to 1.30pm.

Volunteer Photographer

Starts: 25 May 2021 to 31 December 2021

Trevor, Llangollen Canal, Denbighshire

Activities: Outdoors, Marketing and promotion

Taking photos of different areas of the 11 miles of World Heritage Site throughout the seasons, capturing buildings, structures, waterways, activities and people enjoying the waterways (consent forms needed). Photographer will be given the full rights to their pictures, but Canal & River Trust will...

Towpath Taskforce - Chadderton (second Wednesday of the month)

Starts: 1 May 2021

Chadderton, Rochdale Canal, Lancashire

Activities: Practical, Environment, Outdoors, Plastic & Litter Clearance, One off or a taster, Regularly

Join our Towpath Taskforce team in Chadderton to meet new people, keep fit and improve the stretch of the Rochdale Canal which runs through the OL1 and OL9 area. We work on vital tasks such as planting hedgerows, tackling problem plants, litter picking, and generally making the waterside a more attractive...