Maintenance Carpenter Volunteer

This role involves:

• general maintenance of facilities, boardwalks, buildings and hides
• repairing and building timber fences, gates, barriers, signage, benches and other woodwork
• making bird and mammals nest boxes, and tern rafts
• painting of metalwork and timberwork with appropriate preservatives

• helping with exhibit maintenance
• cleaning and maintenance of workshop and tools
• keeping up to date with WWT news

Volunteers are an essential part of the WWT team. You'll get a warm welcome, including information on training, equipment and anything else you need. 

This role will suit you if:

You have a can-do and enthusiastic attitude in completing tasks in all weathers, and are both a practical person and physically fit. An experience in carpentry, ideally with qualifications, would be very beneficial.

Your work will be supporting a great site-wide team, so good and friendly communications with other staff and volunteers and a dependable approach will ensure that you fit in well. Much of your time will be working independently in the workshop, but you will be happy to seek out help when needed and work as part of a small team for occasional larger tasks.

Please note that this role is currently only open to those aged 18+.

Who are we?

We’re WWT, and we’re on a mission to restore the super-powered ecosystems we call wetlands. There’s never been a more important moment for our work, and we’ve got some phenomenal people on the case.

Whether they’re taking a new visitor under their wing, or conducting ground-breaking research further afield, our team are second to none. And there’s nothing we love more than watching them soar.

Whatever you do here, you’ll be helping to restore wetlands and unlock their power. So, the only question left is, what role will you play?

Why you'll love volunteering at WWT

• Feel good knowing you are helping to restore wetlands, and our world
• Be surrounded and inspired by like-minded wetland lovers
• Hear from the people who inject their energy, passion and expertise into wetlands and wildlife - talks, walks, webinars, tea and cake...
• Free entry to all our wetland centres, including your family
• Volunteer discount on shopping and memberships
• Access to webinars and practical information to help you manage daily life