Maintenance Carpenter Volunteer

Volunteers are integral to the running of the beautiful WWT Arundel Wetland Centre, an award-winning site for accessible and inclusive tourism. Our volunteer team are friendly, motivated and hard-working and say they benefit by gaining new experiences, meeting new people and most importantly making a difference by helping maintain important wetland habitat.

Maintaining and developing an award-winning wetland centre requires a lot of practical physical work to keep the centre looking in excellent condition, so we can continue to provide our visitors with a great day out and showcase our work to save wetlands for wildlife and people. In this role you will be mainly based in our purpose-built workshop, providing regular support to the site team undertaking a range of hands on practical carpentry tasks, from boardwalks to buildings and hide repairs.

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

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?

• 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