The Grand Western Canal Country Park and Local Nature Reserve is looking for conservation volunteers to take part in its Volunteer Ranger Service. This initiative aims to provide interested residents the opportunity to volunteer in their local community.

There are lots of reasons to consider volunteering:

• to keep fit
• learn new skills
• make friends
• gain valuable work experience
• or just have some fun

By joining the Volunteer Ranger Service, volunteers can get stuck into tasks such as hedgelaying, coppicing, tree planting, pond maintenance and clearing scrub, or if that's not your thing, how about helping out with litter picking, patrolling or wildlife surveys?

Volunteering needn’t take up too much of your time. When you volunteer is largely up to you! Some people volunteer on a regular basis each week or month. Others when they have a spare day. Volunteering takes place during traditional ‘office hours’, although there are opportunities to help out at weekends on one of our Volunteer Days.

If you are enthusiastic, enjoy working in the outdoors, and want to help improve your local environment then the Canal Ranger’s would like to hear from you.

For more information about Volunteering at the Grand Western Canal please contact the Ranger Service on 01884 254072 or email: gwcanal@devon.gov.uk