Exmoor National Park Authority - Get Involved

We are looking for people interested in helping with helping to catch and control invasive signal crayfish in three different locations.  Exford, Dunster and Landacre.  The different sites have slightly different activities and requirements but all will need people working in the river, and helping from the bank.

Through the summer Whenever the river is low enough volunteers will meet every Tuesday in one or other of the locations.  We envision volunteers will have the option to attend one of the sites every week, but are likely to attend less often at their nearest site when ever they can.  

We will give volunteers as much notice as possible where we will be, but are likely to work with a week or two plan, subject to changing weather conditions affecting where we can go.   Basically if the summer is hot and dry we can plan ahead,  a weeks rain will through it all off...

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Volunteers adopt a section of path that needs regular cutting back  to keep it clear.  Tools and training are available to help with this.

We have a list of paths that we need help keeping clear through the summer, but if you have a particular section you want to work on that is usually fine as well.  The cutting back usually happens in the summer from June onwards.

Meeting in Minehead on the last Tuesday of the month.  Carrying out habitat managing work, wildlife surveying.  Where possible we eat cake and drink tea.  Some work does get done....   Well lots of works get done, but breaktime is good as well..

for more details or if you need a lift from minehead contact pwatts-mabbott@exmoor-nationalpark.gov.uk

We are looking to help people train up to help use scythes.  free training can be given, and we will then ask volunteers to help manage some of our hard to reach meadows and possibly to help clear overgrown paths. 

Every year  Staff and volunteers help hundreds of school children and families to visit and learn about Exmoor.  We need volunteers to help in different capacities, from:-

• Delivering educational activities
• Acting as marshals, ensuring safety on site (particularly with large public events)
• Back marking walks
  

We are looking for keen exmoor walkers who like exploring new places.

We a have a series of set routes that mostly following rivers but can also be done anywhere.  Volunteers walk these routes using iNatrualist to record the most notable vegetation as they go, paying particular attention to about half a dozen invasive species, recording these where ever they find them.

volunteers walk independently reporting their findings back using the iNaturalist app. 

Try your hand at a range of essential peatland restoration tasks by joining the team of restoration working party volunteers with the SWPP. Regular days out will focus on completing practical tasks on our peatland sites, from peat bund maintenance to planting sphagnum plugs. This practical role gets you out and about in beautiful and crucial environments for people, climate and wildlife and contributing to the future health of peatlands across the South West. Our working parties are held across Exmoor, Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor and West Penwith, and you are most welcome to attend work parties closer to home or further afield.

Through the Autumn we are asking volunteers to survey areas of Exmoor looking for waxcap fungi.  These brightly coloured mushrooms grow in permanent grassland and can be indicator species of these long term pastures.   Many are very rare and some of the exmoor species have international protection.   There are just over 30 species in the UK so a good way to practice your fungi i.d skills.  Although the survey is very simple, tell us the colour, how slimly it was, and how the gills attach to the stem.  We will be running some training sessions through the early Autumn to get people ready to survey areas of Exmoor through October and November.

Join Rangers every other Wednesday to help with installing gates, signposts, and carrying out other work to keep our footpath and bridleways open and easy to use.