Volunteer work day: At Shire Brook Valley Nature Reserve

Shire Brook Valley Nature Reserve Volunteer Work Day
Free bookable event

Join Patrick from the Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust for practical hands on conservation work at Shire Brook Valley Nature Reserve, a Sheffield City Council-owned Local Nature Reserve

Tasks vary throughout the year and may include footpath improvements, access work, scrub clearance, habitat management, and vegetation management. Whether you can stay for the whole session or just an hour or two, everyone is welcome.

All volunteer work days start at 10am and finish at 2pm. Please make sure you are at the meeting point by 10am, as the group may head out onto site shortly afterwards. If you are running late, please contact us as soon as possible.

Meeting Point
Shire Brook Valley Visitor Centre
Stone Lane, Sheffield, S13 7BR

Please park in the car park and walk down the path to the visitor centre.

Directions

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Gloves, tools, and light refreshments (Tea/Coffee +Biscuits) are provided, but please wear suitable outdoor clothing, including waterproofs, long sleeves, trousers, and sturdy footwear. Please also bring lunch and water. While there are toilets available at the meeting point, we may be working a long walk from them during the day.

For more information, please contact:
Patrick Gray – p.gray@wildsheffield.com | 07563 804452

Young Volunteers (14–17 years old)

Are you 14 to 17 and would like to volunteer on a work day? Please get in touch in advance with us on nature.reserves@wildsheffield.com so that relevant forms are filled in beforehand and the work day is suitable. If you are 14 – 15 you must be accompanied by an adult at all times. If you are 16 – 17 you will need to have a parental consent form.

Volunteer Eligibility

If you have a caution, unspent conviction or spent conviction that is not defined as protected, as part of our duty of care we have a process that we need to follow before we can decide whether to accept your application to volunteer. Please therefore do NOT sign up via our ticket system but instead contact volunteering@wildsheffield.com to discuss next steps.

About the Site
Shire Brook Valley is one of Sheffield’s largest green spaces, managed as a nature reserve by Sheffield City Council’s Parks and Countryside Service. The reserve contains a mosaic of species-rich grassland, wetlands ,woodland and ponds.

Find out more

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Shire Brook Valley Heritage Group Facebook Page

Sheffield Parks and Countryside Service  Facebook Page

Funding

Acknowledgement
This work is supported through the Species Survival Fund, delivered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with Natural England and the Environment Agency on behalf of DEFRA.