Volunteering
As a charity, volunteers play an important part in the work we do. You can help us with many different activities including scrub clearance, wildlife surveys, tree planting and meadow management. Conservation work is vital to the management of Local Nature Reserves, and the Fife Coastal Path, Fife Pilgrim Way, and Lomond Hills Regional Park. In total FCCT manage more than 70 sites. Fife’s open spaces play an important part in the health and wellbeing of local communities and visitors to Fife.
Due to having 130 registered FCCT volunteers we are not actively recruiting any additional volunteers at this time. We are keen to provide the best volunteering experience to our current volunteers by ensuring that their skills are fully utilised before recruiting any more volunteers. This will be reviewed later in 2024.
We are however still recruiting volunteers for our Tree Warden Scheme .
Downloadable Resources
Volunteer Information Support Pack
Individual Volunteer
Join our Conservation Team to help manage our Local Nature Reserves, coastal and inland walking routes.
Undertake active tasks such as:
Scrub clearing
Path clearing
Grassland management
Invasive species removal
Woodland maintenance
The emphasis is for everyone to enjoy their time, in a safe environment, with an opportunity to learn new skills, while carrying out tasks that will directly enhance the sites and improve habitats.
Volunteer Fiona – I’ve volunteered with FCCT many, many times over the last few years, usually in the North East Fife area, and each time it has been such fun. Some of my activities have included planting native tree saplings, transplanting Marram and Lyme grasses to stabilise dunes, litter picking on the beach and even helping conduct a survey to gain feedback for the Trust’s future development. Every time I am outdoors, with those wonderful and knowledgeable Conservation Officers, I develop new skills and have a great time helping to make a difference to our beautiful Kingdom. Meeting like-minded volunteers, having a laugh and enjoying being outdoors is great for the mind AND body. Thank you FCCT for the work you do!
Community Groups
Community groups can make a huge impact on their local area. FCCT are happy to work with groups who would like to make a difference in their area and help us care for Fife’s amazing outdoor spaces.
Community groups play an important part in making a difference. Plastic Free Dunfermline removed 80kg from a Dalgety Bay beach, read more about their beach clean.
Corporate Volunteering
Many businesses and organisations choose to support the Trust’s work as part of their corporate social responsibility activities. Their staff are encouraged to take part in environmental activities and/or to raise funds to help deliver conservation projects.
Businesses can also join our ‘Big Green Footprint Scheme’. membership of the Big Green Footprint Scheme demonstrates your organisation’s commitment to corporate social responsibility. Members of the scheme can display the scheme logo, which helps demonstrate your green credentials to your customers and suppliers.
Optos from Dunfermline are a company which specialise in retinal imaging. They have volunteered for a number of projects including beach cleans and most recently to assist with meadow management at Birnie and Gaddon Lochs. We look forward to working with them on future projects.
Contact us
Email: ask.us@fifecountryside.co.uk
Tel: 01592 656080
Volunteer Newsletters
December 2023 Newsletter
June 2023 Newsletter
February 2023
Autumn 2022
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