The Parish Council has received the following details from the National Trust, a fantastic opportunity to get out in the countryside!

The National Trust are offering a new opportunity to become a ‘Woolbeding Reimagined’ volunteer.

Woolbeding Reimagined is an exciting project led by the National Trust’s South Downs West team whereby we hope to encourage nature recovery across ex-arable land in the Woolbeding area. We hope you can get involved in some way and become part of the journey which aims to establish species rich habitats, engage with more people and improve access to the countryside.

More details about the project can be found on our webpage Woolbeding conservation project | Sussex | National Trust

There are several volunteer roles, for all sorts of different abilities, interests and availabilities. However, we are in the early stages of the project delivery, so we want to keep things broad to allow you to help us develop these roles. Some of the volunteering opportunities we have in mind include:

  • collecting widlflower seeds for dispersal and propagation
  • taking part in the plant propagation programme
  • roaming rangers to ramble across the site and inform us of what you’ve seen and help remediate
  • ranger volunteering positions to help physically on tasks
  • social media officers to update and engage the public
  • admin assistants for record keeping and organisation
  • livestock lookering to help monitor the cattle and sheep
  • ecological surveying to assess if wildlife is increasing
  • and more!

You’ll be volunteering alongside me, Charlotte Eley. I joined the team in mid-May and I will be hosting a ‘volunteer opportunities’ Open Morning on Friday 4th July from 10:00 until 12:00 at the South Downs West Estate Office:

Pound Common Yard
Woolbeding
West Sussex
GU29 0QB
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It will be an informal session whereby I will introduce myself and take some time to explain the project and what volunteering might look like. But there will be lots of time for questions and then I will show you around the yard and we can see some of the livestock too.
 
Please let me know if you plan to attend by emailing charlotte.eley@nationaltrust.org.uk. Parking is available on site but is fairly limited, so please car share where possible.
 
Thank you. Hopefully see you soon.