Become a volunteer and help to create, care for and connect with trees and woodland in and around your community.
Our volunteer work involves getting small woodlands back into active management along with planting trees, which will form woodlands that communities will enjoy for years to come.
All of our volunteer work contributes to support wildlife and increase biodiversity. By ensuring the health of woodlands and creating more of them, we are actively tackling climate change by helping to lock in carbon from the atmosphere.
Working in small teams outdoors, our sessions are a great way to meet new people and enjoy nature.
If we all do a little it can make a big difference. Volunteers are an intrinsic part of Living Woods and we value each persons individual contribution.
How can you get involved?
Which type of role would you enjoy and like to volunteer for?
Tree Planting
Our volunteer days include tree planting, re-stocking trees which haven’t survived previous years, weeding around young saplings to give them the best chance and removing tree guards on established trees. Our tree planting days run from November to March. Please get in touch with us through our contact page if you are interested in tree planting.
Woodland Management
Volunteer to our get woodlands back into active management through taking part in skills such as coppicing, charcoal making, woodland thinning to create healthy woodlands that can support more wildlife and store more carbon. All ages, abilities, fitness levels are welcome. Our Woodland Management days run from November to March. Each woodland site is different, the sessions might be weekly, fortnightly or monthly. Check on out Woodland Activity schedule below to see if the days and locations work for you. You can then sign up via our online volunteer form (link below) and we’ll be in touch with you with the next steps to get you out with us in the woods.
Living Woods Volunteer
If you are interested in volunteering in another way, you may be able to support our fundraising, social media, marketing, education or training programmes, operations. We would love to hear from you – contact us via e-mail with your skills and interests and we’ll be in touch with you.
Our current regular woodland management volunteer schedule:
| WOODLAND VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY | |
| Day | Location |
| Every Monday | Derwent Valley, Gateshead |
| Tuesday (fortnightly) | Shilbottle, Northumberland |
| Wednesday (fortnightly) | Garesfield Golf Club, Chopwell, Northumberland |
| Every Thursday | Horsley and around the Tyne Valley |
| Sunday (fortnightly) | Horsley, Northumberland |
If you like to volunteer in our woodlands then please fill out our VOLUNTEER FORM. Please note that you will need to set up an username and password to access our volunteer form.
Once you’ve filled out the form, we will be in touch with you to discuss details and plan your first steps as a volunteer.