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Volunteer

The Clyde and Avon Valley Landscape Partnership needs you. There are opportunities over the programme for you to volunteer on activities and projects undertaken by our partners. Many of these will allow you to learn new skills through FREE training.

Volunteering opportunities include:

  • Nature conservation
  • Education
  • Path creation and improvements
  • Archeological excavations
  • Exploring the past through heritage projects
  • Oral History
  • Arts and culture

Scroll down to read more about these in Environmental and Historical Volunteering. 

CAVLP are also looking for volunteer Ambassadors to help us celebrate our projects and get the word out to help local people to get involved - come and join us! We have quartlery newsletters, event and volunteer opportunity posters and flyers that we distribute throughout the year. Other tasks volunteers may be involved in: Talks on CAVLP aims and achievements to community groups, Photography and write up of projects / sites / events, Promoting our work on social media (helping to share and RT our updates and spread the word), Attending village fairs and events to provide a CAVLP stall / local presence, Help with office based tasks e.g. mailings, Ad hoc projects. http://www.volunteerscotland.net/find-an-opportunity/opportunity-search/detail/?opportunityID=200244

By volunteering, you will:

  • Contribute to the aims of the partnership to enhance, conserve and celebrate the valleys landscape
  • Be able to get free training in a range of skills, from chainsaw training to working with media
  • Gain new experiences and learn more about your local landscape
  • Meet new people and get involved in your community

Keep checking our website for up-to-date information, and sign up for our e-newsletter to keep you informed on what is going on. Contact us if you want to tell us what volunteering you'd like to do.

Click here to find out more about training.

Tree planting at Nethan Gorge
Tree planting at Nethan Gorge

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Projects

CAVLP trainee fixing paths in Morgan Glen

Environmental volunteering

Volunteer in woodland management, dealing with invasives, orchard management, fencing, path building, species identification, dry stone dyking, pond creation, tree planting, hedgerow management, biological recording & monitoring.

CAVLP have secured funding for Clydesdale Community Initiatives to run a volunteering programme to protect and enhance the local landscape – and we need you! The volunteering is open to all, with support available to those who need it - the volunteer description is here: http://www.volunteerscotland.net/find-an-opportunity/opportunity-search/detail/?opportunityID=200243. 

Our partners also have regular volunteering opportunities, click on the title Environmental Volunteering above to find out more. 
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Historical skills volunteering

Volunteer to record designed landscapes, capture oral history, digitise historical material, research old maps and archive material, learn archaeological skills, join a dig, conserve kirkyards, photography and explore local built heritage.

Glorious Gardens Volunteers are needed to help us record historic designed landscapes before they are lost:

http://www.volunteerscotland.net/find-an-opportunity/opportunitysearch/detail/?opportunityID=203741

Our partners, CAVLP Heritage, are developing more historical related volunteering and you can contact them on  for more details.

Click on the Historical Volunteering title to find out about more opportunities.
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