Volunteering opportunities in and around the National Park
| Organisation | key activities |
| British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) | Work includes setting up and supporting community groups to manage local sites and projects; working with teachers and schools to improve grounds; providing training courses; promoting and providing practical volunteering opportunities and conservation projects. |
| Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) Hampshire | Registered charity that uses volunteers to help lobby, fundraise, distribute leaflets and help at events. |
| Christchurch Countryside Volunteers | Undertake a variety of practical tasks at the boroughs 16 nature reserves including hedging, putting up fences, cutting back overgrown footpaths and removing undesirable non-native plants. |
| Dorset Conservation | An informative website listing a wide range of conservation volunteering opportunities in Dorset. |
| Dorset Countryside Volunteers | The group takes part in various weekend tasks all over Dorset and has a strong social element |
| Dorset Wildlife Trust | The Trust has various conservation groups operating across Dorset. |
| Evolve | An interactive website for voluntary and community groups serving Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. |
| Forestry Commission | Volunteer Rangers assist visitors in the New Forest by leading guided walks and staffing information units; leading and helping on practical conservation tasks, patrolling and byelaw enforcement. Two trees Conservation Team work ranges from getting rid of scrub in ponds, helping toads and newts or clearing small trees from ridge edges for butterflies and insects. |
| Hampshire Conservation Volunteers | Hampshire Conservation Volunteers is an active group of people making a practical contribution to nature conservation in Hampshire. Most weekends they carry out practical tasks such as woodland management, hedge-laying and pond restoration. |
| Hampshire Paths Partnership - Hampshire County Council | The HPP aims to give local communities the opportunity to improve the public rights of way network in their area. Practical rights of way improvement tasks include clearing overgrown vegetation along bridleways, replacing stiles with gates or creating a parish mapboard/leaflet. |
| Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust (registered charity) | By providing volunteering, education and training opportunities the Trust enables individuals and communities to provide sustained benefit to wild places. The Trust currently has over 1000 volunteers caring for over 60 reserves. |
| Hythe and Dibden Woodland and Waterside groups | Conservation work including clearance, path laying, boardwalks; recording of flora and fauna; work with schools and in particular the Hythe and Dibden Community Woodland. |
| Milford Environment Group | Volunteer members of the local community in Milford working with the Parish Council on conservation of woodland and other areas in Milford. |
| Nature Net | Provides a huge database of volunteering groups across the country with links to specific websites. |
| New Forest Area Conservation Volunteers | The main aim of the group is to enhance the natural environment of the New Forest by means of practical conservation work. Activities include tree and hedge planting, pond restoration, woodland improvement and lots more. |
| New Forest Friends of the Earth | A group of New Forest residents who are committed to saving the environment before it is too late! Support and initiate environmental campaigns in the New Forest. |
| South Hampshire National Trust Volunteers | The group works on a voluntary basis on properties of the National Trust to help with conservation of the relevant properties and environment. Work includes cutting down and planting of trees, scrub bashing, repairing fences, building footpaths and much more. |
| Marine Conservation Society Adopt-a-beach | The Marine Conservation Society organise and provide information on the Adopt-a-beach Scheme which provides practical volunteering opportunities relating to the regions shoreline. |
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