Volunteering

You can help protect and restore the rivers in the Don Catchment.

If you like to get outdoors, meet others and learn new skills, DCRT have exciting volunteering opportunities for you to make a difference!

You will spend time with DCRT staff who will support you with inductions, volunteer clothing such as t-shirts and fleeces, training and all-important cups of tea.

All days start with a meet at a designated spot for a welcome talk and briefing about the day’s tasks. Relevant equipment is provided, so all you need to do is wear suitable clothing and footwear such as waterproofs, warm clothes and sturdy shoes.

Our volunteering opportunities are flexible allowing you to pick and choose what best suits you.

Catchment Volunteering

Catchment Volunteering

Help to improve our rivers through practical work. This can involve clean-up days to make our rivers a more pleasant place to be, improving access, removing invasive plant species, creating leaky dams on NFM days and even habitat improvement work!

Volunteer Citizen Science

Survey the ecology in and around our rivers. This can involve surveys for plants, insects and animals.

Volunteer Events Assistant

Volunteer Events Assistant

Help to run events or stalls to promote the rivers in our catchment and connect communities with their local green and blue spaces.

Volunteer Education Assistant

Volunteer Education Assistant

Help run educational sessions for school and youth groups so that they can learn about their local river and the creatures that live in it. This can involve working with young people to go bug hunting, pond dipping, run classroom activities and helping to set up and pack away DCRT’s equipment!

Volunteer Angling Coach

Volunteer Angling Coach

Know how to catch a fish? Know your Gudgeon from your Grayling? DCRT run angling sessions that introduce people to angling, teaching them how to be responsible anglers or letting them just give it a go. Opportunities are also available for training via the Angling Trust coaching scheme.

Riverfly Monitor Volunteer

Riverfly Monitor Volunteer

An important part of how we understand the health of our rivers is through riverfly monitoring. As the catchment host for the Riverfly Partnership, we support communities and volunteers to monitor invertebrates in rivers, which tells us about the river’s health.

To find out more about our volunteer opportunities, please see our role descriptions below or complete the enquiry form and someone will get back to you.

You can also sign up to our volunteering specific mailing list at the bottom of the page for callouts about interesting events!

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Need some inspiration?

Watch our video about volunteering from our previous National Lottery Heritage Fund project, Living Heritage of the River Don!

Volunteer Roles

Catchment
Volunteer

All Hands on the Don project (Doncaster)

Role Description

Citizen
Science

All Hands on the Don project (Doncaster)

Role Description

Volunteer Events
Assistant

All Hands on the Don project (Doncaster)

Role Description

Education Assistant
Volunteer

All Hands on the Don project (Doncaster)

Role Description

Catchment
Volunteer

Sheffield, Chesterfield,
Rotherham And Barnsley

Role Description

Citizen Science
Volunteer

Sheffield, Chesterfield,
Rotherham And Barnsley

Role Description
  • “Volunteering for DCRT has been amazing. They have been so supportive and provided me with opportunities to learn that I would not have had otherwise. I’ve been given the chance to help organise projects and spend time in nature. I’ve met some amazing people and made some great friends.”
    Suzie Saunders, Citizen Scientist
  • “Having lived in Chesterfield for the past 14 years, I have long held a desire to want to help clean up our local rivers and pathways. I have spent time in my local area helping to pick up litter and generally make the area look much nicer and more presentable. All staff and volunteers are a friendly bunch and I have always been made to feel really welcome, even though it’s not something that I can commit to regularly.”
    Sarah Umpleby, Catchment Volunteer
  • “Volunteering is fun and relaxing. I’ve been learning a lot and I like feeling like I have achieved something. You can’t be more connected to the river than wading in it.”
    Dan Sellers, Catchment Volunteer

Upcoming Volunteering
Opportunities

Check on our calendar for all upcoming opportunities

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