How to Volunteer
If you would like to volunteer, please set up your registration by completing two short forms. These actions are only required once, then you are able to book/cancel as many volunteer events as you wish.
Please complete the Volunteer Application Form on the link below. This is a secure site.
Volunteer Application Form
Please also print out and complete the Consent and Medical form below. You can email this to us at Volunteers@cormonachan-woodlands.co.uk or bring to your first volunteer event. Completing this task in advance helps us to be more efficient on the day. If you are unable to send in advance, don’t worry, we will have paper copies with us to complete.
Adult Consent & Medical Form 2023/2024
See details of forthcoming Volunteers Days where you can book/cancel safely online on the link below:-
Volunteers Days that you can book/cancel online
Volunteers Days for Spring 2023:-
Saturday 18/02/2023 – 10 am to 4 pm with 1/2 hour break for lunch – JM (Completed)
Thursday 09/03/2023 – 10 am to 4 pm with 1/2 hour break for lunch – FW (Completed)
Saturday 25/03/2023 – 10 am to 4 pm with 1/2 hour break for lunch – JM Cancelled (lack of support)
Thursday 06/04/2023 – 10 am to 4 pm with 1/2 hour break for lunch – FW
Saturday 15/04/2023 – 10 am to 4 pm with 1/2 hour break for lunch – JM
Monday 08/05/2023 – 10 am to 4 pm with 1/2 hour break for lunch – FW (UK National Volunteers Day)
Thursday 11/05/2023 – 10 am to 4 pm with 1/2 hour break for lunch – FW
Saturday 20/05/2023 – 10 am to 4 pm with 1/2 hour break for lunch – JM
You are welcome to help mornings, afternoons or both.
Team Leaders: FW = Frances Walker (Volunteers Leader); JM = Jacqui Matthews (Woodlands Manager)
All Volunteers Days are from 10 am to 4 pm with a social lunch break. You can come for half a day – all help is much appreciated…
Tasks to be carried out on the day will be suitable to the weather!
Work to do in these ancient woodlands includes cutting down & burning invasive Rhododendron ponticum, removing self-seeded invasive plants, clearing already felled Sitka spruce trees & stacking and burning the brash, cutting down self-seeded Sitka spruce trees (felling can only be done by certificated volunteer members), slashing bracken, strimming, brush cutting, scything & mowing the paths, pruning branches alongside the paths, maintaining the ditches, planting native trees & keeping them free of scrub, cleaning & painting the Red Squirrel Hide & storage shed and the Contemplation Shelter, cleaning the picnic tables & benches, helping to make sculptures & maintaining them, keeping the Labyrinth in good order, topping up the squirrel feeders, erecting new signs, cleaning the information signs and anything else that may be needed to maintain the woodlands in good order.
Cormonachan Community Woodlands volunteers may be joined by
Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park volunteers.
Clean Hi-Vis jackets, gloves, masks and face shields will be available for volunteers to use.
All tools and equipment for tasks are provided.
Please wear suitable clothing and footwear and bring a packed lunch and refreshments. Lunch break is very sociable over half an hour.
First Aiders are always in attendance.
The nearest public toilets are 2 miles away to the south just past Castle Carrick in Carrick Castle.
CCW Volunteer Policy
Would you be interested in becoming a Team Leader? –
see CCW Team Leader Check List
The CCW Volunteers Leader is Frances Walker – 07776 325431
E-mail: Volunteers@cormonachan-woodlands.co.uk.
Our CCW Woodlands Manager is Jacqui Matthews – 07950 699129
E-mail: Woodlands-Manager@cormonachan-woodlands.co.uk
We do hope that as many people as possible can volunteer over these months.
If you haven’t volunteered before, give it a GO! It’s actually very enjoyable and rewarding to make a difference…
Please book Volunteers Days in advance, if you can’t attend having booked, you can cancel – all can be done securely online.