Brecknock team volunteer days

Brecknock team volunteer days

Location:
Brecknock, Powys

Matthew Roberts

Volunteer with our practical work parties on the nature reserves around Brecknock.

Position details

Frequency:

Weekly

Our volunteer days happen most Tuesdays around and north of Brecon and Ystradgynlais. With occasional meetings on other days of the week.

Nature reserves we look after include: 
Drostre WoodCae Pwll y BoYstradfawrY ByddwnTrewalkin MeadowWern PlemysVicarage MeadowsAllt RhongyrDarren FawrCae LyndenPen y WaunCae EglwysCraig y RhiwarthGlasbury CuttingCae BryntywarchLlandefaelog WoodCoed DyrysiogPwll-y-Wrach

Tasks might include:

  • Spring: path clearance, fence work, site checks, access work, woodland glade management.
  • Summer: path clearance, fence management, site checks and surveys, meadow management (Cutting, ragwort pulling, bracken control), invasive species management, access work, bracken control.
  • Autumn: coppicing, woodland management, hedge laying, habitat creation, access work, path clearance, pond maintenance, Rhos Pasture and grasslands management (mowing, scrub control and tree pulling).
  • Winter: access work, coppicing, woodland management, habitat creation, Rhos Pasture and grasslands management (scrub control and tree pulling).

If you are volunteering to join in with practical work parties on the reserves, on receipt of the Registration Form, you will be sent a work party programme for your local area with all necessary information. You can then join in with any or all of the work parties.

Become a volunteer

If you'd like to volunteer in Brecknock, please contact Pauline Hill, p.hill@welshwildlife.org, or Stephanie Coates, s.coates@welshwildlife.org, to register your interest. 

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Contact details

Please contact Steph Coates on s.coates@welshwildlife.org or 01874 625708 for any questions and to sign up.