How can I volunteer?

There are many ways to volunteer for us, from counting butterflies and moths, to helping organise activities, improving spaces for wildlife or inspiring people to do more for butterflies, moths and the environment. 

Check our volunteer opportunity search for ways you can get involved near you or from home.  

Ways to Volunteer

There’s a wide range of ways you can support our work as a volunteer.  Here’s a flavour of how you can get involved:

Recording & Monitoring
Engagement & Education
Practical Conservation
Admin or Branch Support
Youth Panel

Recording & Monitoring
We run several recording schemes for butterflies and moths which give us vital data about how they are faring across the UK.  We use this data to influence government policy, inform conservation decisions and evidence our work.  

We have a wide range of recording and monitoring roles, from going out a couple of times a year to survey a site, to co-ordinating recording volunteers, verifying data and supporting data analysis:
 

*Depending on species

Engagement and Education

Our work to connect people to nature has never been more important and there are many ways you can get involved.  Our engagement and education work is centred around our goal to create 100,000 Wild Spaces for butterflies and moths in the UK and you can support this by planning a programme of events, running or helping out at an event, running activities with children or by raising funds to support our work. 

*Occasional
** Optional

Conservation 

We carry our practical conservation work on a range of sites, including nature reserves and partner-led sites.  Plan, lead or join a practical conservation event (often known as a “work party”) to create habitat for butterflies and moths, help us manage our reserves by checking livestock, fences and sites, or champion a species to encourage more people to conserve them. 

*Occasional
**Depending on species 

Admin or Branch Support 

Our admin and Branch roles are critical to our work as people who volunteer this way make things happen and helps us spread the word about our work.  You can help by getting involved in your local Branch, recruiting volunteers, creating a newsletter, spreading the word through social media or maintaining our web pages. 

*Optional