Corporate Volunteer Days

More and more employers allow time off for volunteering. Why not join in with one of our work parties or nature discovery centre teams to help out when you can? If you are looking for an opportunity for your team of three or more people to volunteer we give priority to our Investors in Wildlife.

Essex Wildlife Trust gets more enquiries about corporate volunteering than it can accommodate. For team building days the Trust has introduced a charge for groups coming from companies that are not corporate members. The Trust gets many corporate enquiries and we cannot cater for all teams. Charging allows us to cover the costs associated with the administration and organisation of team days and support the work of the charity. 

The charge is £750 a day + vat for teams of up to 15 people. If the organisation requesting a corporate volunteering day is a Platinum corporate member, there will be preferential rates and dates.

Your volunteering day will include

Staff member to guide your day and provide training
Public liability insurance for all activities
Teas, coffees and biscuits provided

Typical schedule

Arrive 9.30am
Health and safety and task briefing
10am start on task
Tea break
Continue with task
Lunch break
Afternoon activity

We can tailor these activities and timings according to your needs.

Tasks can include

Building fencing
Coppicing and woodland management  
Removing invasive species
Litter picking
Tree planting
Pathway and steps maintenance
And much more depending on the site

Tasks are only available at certain times of the year and are weather and location dependent. Our busiest time of year is Winter work season from September – March, outside of this is breeding bird season where we keep activities that may disturb breeding birds to a minimum.

Health and Wellbeing days

Everyone in the office feeling frazzled? Change one of the task options above to include a meditation and mindfulness in nature session.

Want to book?

If you are interested in finding out what activities are available, please complete the following online form.

Please note that your day is not confirmed until you have booked on, we do not hold selections of available dates and corporate days book up very quickly.

Corporate Volunteering Request Form