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This group meets weekly on a Wednesday for 3 hours at 08:30am in summer and 09:00am in cooler months to perform habitat restoration on the Gurriwal Trail and the nearby Small Bird Habitat.
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This popular group meets weekly for 3 hours from 09:00am in the Discovery Centre Nursery performing nursery based activities. This is a small but well-appointed nursery with propagation, seed raising and plant storage facilities.
Our nursery is an accessible venue and is suitable for people with a disability.
Join to learn about plant husbandry in a social atmosphere.
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This larger group meets fortnightly on the 1st and 3rd Sundays from 0900-1200 at sites around Centennial Parklands and Queens Park that contain remnants of the iconic and highly endangered Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub (ESBS).
A substantial proportion of the remaining stands of this vegetation community are retained within the parklands.
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Four times a year a small group undertakes a count of Centennial Parkland’s flying fox camp in the central paperbark swamp area.
You will join a team at dusk and observe and count the threatened Grey Headed Flying Foxes as they fly out to forage across the Sydney basin.
This count provides vital scientific information about the species and the importance of urban refuges like the parklands.
Join if you are passionate about conservation and want to contribute to citizen science data collection.
Four times a year a small group undertakes a series of bird surveys at specific sites in and around the parklands. This is carried out in collaboration with Birdlife NSW and involves experienced birdwatchers. You will partner with our regular birdwatching team and visit some interesting and hidden spots.
Join if you are a keen and relatively experienced birdwatcher.
Image credit. Tony Spira 2023
This volunteering opportunity is undertaken individually at your convenience. We concentrate particularly on the pond edges, as storm water borne rubbish is a perennial problem.
Join if you visit the parklands regularly and would like to make an impact on their visual and environmental amenity.
Greater Sydney Parklands’ corporate volunteer program can provide opportunities for organisations to support their employees’ physical and mental health and wellbeing, respond to CSR objectives, and enhance cultural awareness training.
To make a booking and find out more information please go to our website https://www.centennialparklands.com.au/support-join/volunteers/corporate-volunteering
Studies show that volunteering can release endorphins that give a “feel good factor” which contributes to positive physical and mental health. Volunteering in the lush green spaces of the parklands also provides participants with the widely documented benefits that exposure to green space can have on mental health.
For organisations with environmental objectives, our program can provide a direct contribution to conservation goals, with the chance to work with our team on bush regeneration projects to restore, enhance and protect the Parklands’ environment.
For those looking to support cultural awareness training, our other volunteer program offers an opportunity to work on the restoration and enhancement of the Parklands' Aboriginal cultural space, the Guriwal Trail, an important educational, cultural, and conservation project.
All participants must be fully COVID-19 vaccinated.
Your Valued Contribution
Corporate volunteering fees are priced as a per person fee depending on the program and are paid as a donation, prior to the volunteer session, to the Centennial Parklands Foundation. The Foundation is an independent charitable organisation established to raise funds and awareness to support and enhance the three magnificent parks of Centennial Parklands. Please contact us for more information on the programs, pricing, and availability.
Please join us in Parramatta Park for monthly riverside habitat restoration,. We meet at the bridge in Wistaria Gardens, at 0900-1200 on the third Sunday of the month.
Join us monthly, on the first Sunday at Domain Creek in Parramatta Park to regenerate the bush on the creek banks, removing weeds, planting native species and improving the habitat and cultural values of the site.
Join to enjoy environmental work and learn abot native plants in a social group.
Join us to count the number of flying foxes using the Parramatta River camp in Parramatta Park. This quarterly count is part of a national census of flying fox numbers, and is a wonderful opportunity to contribute to a citizen science project with national significance. The count occurs at sunset 4 times a year. Look out for emails notifying you of dates and times.
Join us monthly on the third Friday at the Dairy in Parramatta Park for a community gardening session. We will be establishing a new garden for the community to use and enjoy. The garden will highlight the heritage and cultural values of the parklands, by planting old, heirloom varieties of vegetables and fruits, maintaining the existing old orchard trees and developing cultural plantings that highlight Aboriginal cultural species.
We meet monthly from 0900-1200 at the Dairy.
