Youth Volunteering
Our volunteer sessions help you to develop practical and transferrable skills whilst learning more about local wildlife and conservation. We meet on the first Saturday of every month during term…
Our volunteer sessions help you to develop practical and transferrable skills whilst learning more about local wildlife and conservation. We meet on the first Saturday of every month during term…
It’s all go at Grow Wilder!
Grow Wilder welcomes 20,000 people a year and our volunteers are instrumental in providing the very best visitor experience. We’re looking to grow our friendly…
Over the last academic year (2017/18) I have been volunteering at Avon wildlife trust at two different branches, Feed Bristol and the pollinator corridors team.
Often found basking on tall grasses, or buzzing between stems, the small skipper is a small, orange butterfly. It prefers rough grassland, verges and woodland edges.
Having started volunteering in the office answering volunteer enquiries, I was keen to have a practical placement with one of our conservation teams so that I could get a feel for what they do. I…
The small white is a common garden visitor. It is smaller than the similar large white, and has less black on its wingtips.
The Small heath is the smallest of our brown butterflies and has a fluttering flight. It favours heathlands, as its name suggests, as well as other sunny habitats.
A prickly, tall plant, the Small teasel is closely related to the Common teasel, but has much smaller, more rounded flower heads. It prefers damp, open woodlands.
The small blue's name is a little misleading: it is our smallest butterfly, but only shows a dusting of blue on brown wings. It is scarce, occurring on chalk grassland, mostly in southern…
The small copper lives up to its name in both colour and size! Look out for it from April onwards in dry, sunny habitats like heathland, downland and woodland. It can be spotted in gardens, too.…