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Aviva volunteering

Thank you for your interest in volunteering for the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust!

This page is for Aviva employees who are interested in volunteering with us. We offer the opportunity to undertake a number of varied outdoor practical management tasks on our network of wildlife reserves. Work will be outdoors, practical and will benefit nature and the environment.

The work tasks we offer are suitable for all volunteers, new or experienced and include bracken bashing, scrub clearance, coppicing, raking cut meadows, cutting reedbeds and removal of invasive non-native species.

Our volunteer days are led by one of our trained and experienced members of staff who are first aid trained and experienced in leading volunteers. We provide all work tools and related safety equipment.

Upcoming volunteering days

We have several set volunteering days coming up over the next few months. Please let us know if you would like to book on a specific one. If none of the dates are suitable, please let us know and we can try fit you in on another date.

See our booking form for our full list of dates

What your team will need

Your team will need to bring:

- sturdy footwear

- light layers, including a hat and waterproofs

- water bottle and packed lunch

- a can do attitude regardless of the weather!

Good to know

Suitable breaks will be taken during the day including a lunch break which will normally take place outside on the reserve.

We are happy to work with groups of up to 15 volunteers and larger groups by special arrangement (this may vary depending on the task).

We are able to host volunteer work parties from July through to February, with most opportunities available in autumn and winter.

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Every second counts

Your Aviva Sustainability Team wish to emphasise the importance of recording your volunteering leave, so remember to log your hours on Workday.

Aviva can then measure performance against target, and most importantly your impact on our work.

 How to log your hours

Get in touch

If you are interested in finding out more, please fill in the form below.

Select your preferred reserve and dates (York reserves)

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Select your preferred reserve and dates (Non-York reserves)

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If you cancel or change your booking
We do offer refunds and partial refund as detailed below.

  • Wild Work Day cancellation 30 days or more in advance: full refund
  • Wild Work Day cancellation between 14 and 29 days: 50% refund
  • Wild Work Day cancellation 1 to 13 days in advance: no refund
  • Changing the number of participants 30 days or more in advance: full refund for the number of participants no longer attending
  • Changing the number of participants 29 days or less prior to the Wild Work Day: No refund

If we cancel the Wild Work Day
Wild Work Days are very occasionally cancelled, normally due to extreme weather, if this is the case you will be notified as soon as possible before the day and you will receive a full refund.