Wildlife Garden Volunteers

Would you like to delve into a compost bin to transform weeds and sheep dung into sweet-smelling compost, or shoot off on a mercy dash to save woodland plants from the bulldozer? Perhaps you would prefer sunny afternoons recording plant data and entering it onto our database.

If you can distinguish foxgloves from ferns and pond skaters from earthworms, and are responsible and hard working, we need your help in the Museum’s Wildlife Garden . Our team of over 80 volunteers and scientists is conducting a detailed monitoring programme of the plants and wildlife that colonise the garden, and the environmental changes affecting them.

Why volunteer?

• explore and learn about nature out in the field
• develop yourself under the expert guidance of our scientists
• watch and appreciate your plantings grow bigger and better each year
• invigorate your body and mind with exercise and fresh air

You can enjoy a range of benefits:

• free entry to charging exhibitions
• a 10 per cent discount in our Museum shops
• staff discount in the Museum's public cafes and restaurants
• invitations to staff and volunteer events and special Museum events
• free lunch once a week in the staff canteen

What do our volunteers have to say?

John loves volunteering and seeing the changes in the Wildlife Garden – his favourite months being May and June when 'everything is so lush’. ‘You don’t feel that you are in one of the most polluted areas of London… it’s like being on a small island, somewhere far away'.

For further information about volunteering with us, please email our volunteer co-ordinator

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