Dorset Wildlife Trust volunteer, Rachel Harris, recounts her experience surveying dormice over the years at Fontmell Down.

Grace Herve, Dorset Peat Partnership Project Manager, talks about raising the profile of peat in Dorset and how the Dorset Peat Partnership has engaged members of the public.

Last July, Jess Snellgrove took a secondment from working at John Lewis, and decided to spend her summer placement working with Dorset Wildlife Trust's Reserves Ecologist, Steve Masters.…

Volunteers play a huge role in helping us to tell the community about the work that we do.

Year 12 student, James Carter recently chose to do a week of work experience with us and kindly agreed to describe his experience in this blog post. From helping with conservation tasks on Higher…

At the Broad Oak Orchard near Sturminster Newton, there is a local volunteer group who help the wardens to maintain this beautiful pocket of old orchard - Tony Stables leads the group.

Long-term volunteers, Jane and Phil Blake tell us about all the fantastic ways they have helped Dorset Wildlife Trust over the last ten years on Upton Heath.

Volunteers help in so many ways - Stephen Baynes took on an office-based role with the Fundraising and Marketing team - always plenty to do there!

Written by the Dorset Wildlife Young Journalists for the Spring 2022 membership magazine. By Charlie Saban, Emma Papka, Poppy Marshall and Ruby Pruden-Medus.

Between March and May 2021, we worked with Participation People (a youth voice organisation) to train a group of amazing young people in journalism skills and supported them to produce a series of…