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Rooted in the Neroche Forest just outside Taunton, we work to enable people to become a beneficial part of a beautiful, healthy ecosystem. Our vision is for a reciprocal, healing relationship between ...
Neroche Conservation Volunteers
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A friendly group running practical outdoor sessions in beautiful landscapes, helping conserve wildlife habitats and improve access and opportunities for others. Our volunteer days are on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Wednesdays of each month, sometimes at our base at Young Wood, Staple Fitzpaine, and sometimes on local nature reserves around the Blackdown Hills. No experience necessary, we provide all the tools and instruction, plus hot drinks. Just bring some lunch and wear old clothes and strong boots. Ours is a friendly, sociable group, with a good jovial atmosphere. You will get access to some beautiful landscapes, you'll get good exercise from doing useful work, you'll learn more about the landscape and wildlife, and you'll come away with the knowledge that you're helping conserve wildlife habitats and improve access for all. We run sessions on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Wednesdays of the month, starting 9.30 and finishing 3pm. You can attend as many or as few of these as you wish.
What we will provide to volunteers
🤝 Extra supportAbout Neroche Woodlanders
We offer a welcoming, non-judgmental, and transformative place for people of all ages and backgrounds to create community, by listening, learning, doing, making, and sharing. We focus especially on those for whom reaching natural places is hardest, and who, because of isolation, trauma, or exclusion, have the most to gain. We tend the land to create a richer place for all creatures.
As a community benefit society and exempt charity, our governance is held by seven directors, three of whom are executive directors and are paid for non-governance work. We have an additional team of six freelancers and more than 35 volunteers who help with group sessions and look after the woods. Our turnover is usually about £100k per year, with most of our income being grants, contracts and charged-for work. We are currently bidding for bigger grants to enable multi-year funding and increasing our turnover through training courses and other fundraising efforts.