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Conservation and Environmental Volunteering

This Specialist Theme of the Good Practice Bank contains a number of resources to help anyone working with or managing volunteers in a conservation-focused or environmental setting.

You may also like to browse the general resources in the Good Practice Bank's Core Themes. They cover topics such as 'Equal Opportunities and Diversity', 'Protection and Safeguarding of Vulnerable Clients' and 'Creating Volunteer Roles'. Visit the Good Practice Bank index to find a full list of themes.

Overview

Environmental volunteering includes a vast range of settings and volunteer roles, from landscape conservation to community regeneration or monitoring of local nature levels.

Managing volunteers in these areas can bring particular challenges in role design, (for example for taster days or residential projects), training, (especially for practical or scientific tasks) and health and safety obligations.

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Examples, Samples and Templates

Real life examples

Please note that Volunteering England has not produced the 'real life example' documents listed directly above and is therefore unable to take responsibility for the content. Volunteering England and the organisations that contribute example documents to the Good Practice Bank can accept no responsibility for how they are used. They are presented as examples of good practice, but it is every volunteer-involving organisation's responsibility to ensure that their volunteers are safe, and that policies and procedures meet current legal requirements. For further information about the resources listed in the Good Practice Bank, please visit our 'top tips' page.

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Share your experiences!

The Good Practice Bank is growing steadily as more information is added to it. An important feature of the Bank is allowing users to share their documents with other volunteering organisations. We are particularly interested in receiving example policies or documents that you are happy to share with others. If we use your contribution, you could win a book on volunteering from our regular prize draw.