There can be few groups of animals as incredibly useful and so little loved and understood as spiders. BBOWT volunteer Sue Taylor speaks up for them.

"In record time the job is done and a huddle of soggy, dripping hardy souls retreats to the welcoming warmth of their homes and families."

"For a couple of years, we watched the hesitant beginnings of natural regeneration"

BBOWT volunteer Derek Cutt celebrates twenty five years of the Greenham and Crookham Conservation Volunteers

BBOWT volunteer Sylvia O'Brien explains what she does as a volunteer surveyor for the ecology team and how you can get involved too

"Here, embraced in the warm, gentle companionship of other woodland folk, feelings of desolation will dissipate." 

"How fortunate I feel to have such companions in this beautiful wild place. Here my soul will be soothed."
TW: grief

In the first of our new series, volunteering administrator Wayne Brown chats to Sue Taylor to find out what motivates her to act for nature as a volunteer for BBOWT.

"More scythes and more scythers mean that the cutting of grassy habitats, essential in enabling wild flowers and invertebrates to flourish, can be done quickly, efficiently, and in a…

Judith Ballinger, volunteer ecology trainee, set herself the challenge of visiting as many nature reserves as possible during her traineeship. Read how she's getting on.