Volunteering at Brocks Hill Country Park

This page contains information on how to become a volunteer at Brocks Hill Country Park in Oadby.

There is a regular volunteer day every Wednesday all year round in the park. Volunteers provide an essential input into the management of the country park assisting the countryside ranger in fulfilling the objectives of the park's management plan.

Volunteers meet at 10.00 a.m. and work through until about 3.00 p.m. with a break for lunch. Tools, gloves and refreshments are provided but volunteers bring along their own lunch. Sufficient warm and waterproof clothing is always needed as tasks often involve getting grubby and weather can be changeable.

Work can include undertaking footpath maintenance, painting knee rails, woodland management, maintenance of the trees in the orchard, litter picking, gardening, planting trees, looking after the tree nursery and hedge-laying for example. If helping with practical conservation tasks is not for you, then you may wish to help with bird and butterfly recording. The woodlands within the country park are now beginning to mature and in order to inform our future management planning, it is useful to have a record of the types of bird species that occur within the park and where they are seen. We are in the process of recruiting volunteers to undertake bird recording at the moment, so if you are interested please see the contact details. We have a volunteer who regularly walks a butterfly transect around the park so if anyone would like to help out, that would also be welcome.

If you like fresh air, enjoy meeting new people and would like to help us manage the country park, then our volunteer task day may be for you.

The volunteer group is currently being supported by the Council's Countryside and Biodiversity Officer. If you would like to come along and work as a volunteer please see the contact details on the left.