How you can help

Volunteering

If you want to become more involved at a particular site by helping out with active habitat management works, the Notts BAG website at www.nottsbag.org.uk includes some details about volunteering opportunities. Other information about volunteering can be found on the Greenwood Community Forest website at www.greenwoodforest.org.uk. In addition, several of our Local Nature Reserves have ‘Friends’ groups which help with management activities and make plans for the future of these sites.

Sherwood Forest Community Rangers

Through our Sherwood Forest Community Rangers project, we’re actively involving local people in the decision making and management of sites. We aim to develop active community involvement and increase local understanding and sense of ownership.

You can get involved and help in a number of ways, such as:

• Commenting on proposals and ideas about how the site could be better managed to suit local needs
• Providing advice and information about local wildlife to be found on the site and contributing to management plans
• Undertaking wildlife and site surveys that provide valuable data for focussing site management
• Becoming a volunteer ranger to help monitor activity and management on each site
• Helping with practical conservation and access projects
• Setting up ‘Friends of’ groups who contribute to the overall management of the site.

For information about volunteering with the project please download and fill in the volunteer registration form [PDF 156KB] .

Community Action for Wildlife Project

For people throughout all of Nottinghamshire who are keen to become involved in their local environment this project provides many opportunities. Currently these are split into three sections:

• Fun in a Box
• Shadow Rangers
• Sherwood Conservation Skills Project.

View more information about the opportunities provided by the Community Action for Wildlife Project.

Lifestyle

The Notts BAG website at www.nottsbag.org.uk provides some excellent advice about how we can make changes to the way we shop, the food we consume, and how we tend our gardens, so that we can be more wildlife friendly.

Recording biodiversity - your records

A quick and easy way to help wildlife is to send in records of species that you see in your garden, or whilst out and about (including dead animals), as these will help to build a better picture of where different species are present in the county, and allow conservation efforts to be better targeted. Records can be entered onto the Nottinghamshire Biological and Geological Records Centre website, or can be sent to:

Nottinghamshire Biological and Geological Records Centre
Nottingham Natural History Museum
Wollaton Hall
Nottingham
NG8 2AE

tel: 0115 915 3909
fax: 0115 915 3932
e-mail: nbgrc@ncmg.org.uk