Potteric Carr Nature Reserve: Opportunities for volunteers

Volvox Newsletter February 2010 (200kb PDF) The YWT Volunteers' Newsletter for February 2010, featuring Potteric Carr volunteers.

After being run largely by volunteers since 1968, YWT made the Reserve its Flagship in 2005 and employed a full-time staff team. Volunteers remain part of the Reserve's activities and are collectively called the
'Friends Of Potteric Carr' (FOPC) supporters group

PRACTICAL WORK (assisting the Reserves Officer and Field Officer with practical conservation work, habitat management, and maintenance of facilities on the nature reserve).
VOLUNTEER RANGER (patrolling the site out of normal opening hours).
CATERING (assisting the Café Supervisors).

EDUCATION (assisting the Education Programme Manager).
SCIENTIFIC RECORDING (recording and monitoring Potteric Carr wildlife, and input into species and habitat management plans).

PHOTOGRAPHY (adding photographs to the FOPC image library).

FROM A PUDDLE IN A FIELD TO ONE OF THE REGION’S MOST IMPORTANT NATURE RESERVES

Potteric Carr volunteers can be proud that their endeavours led to the present-day success story of one of the region’s most important and best-loved nature reserves, rich in wildlife and a place with a 40-year tradition of community volunteering. The Reserve now has the benefit of full-time professional management, but there is still an important role for volunteers.

FROM THE ARCHIVES
In the early days of the Reserve access to YWT Potteric Carr was limited by the number of Permits issued by British Railways for volunteers to walk across live railway lines on site. The annual permit below (1972 issue) had to be aquired before visiting the Reserve.