Celebrating our volunteers

Last year, our volunteers gave almost one million hours to help us save nature. It’s an incredible contribution and we simply could not do the work we do without volunteers. 

Many hands with many skills

We know there’s a tremendous amount to do to help the wildlife we love, and our volunteers help in huge variety of ways. From volunteer wardens who help with every aspect of nature reserve management, to those who support our campaigns by writing letters, to those who nurture a love of nature by running activities for children.

Through the Aldi Schools Outreach Project, the RSPB has provided over 330,000  connections to nature experiences for children since 2015. None of this would have been possible without our team of volunteers. 

Volunteer Rowan Cannel describes why getting involved was one of her best ever decisions and fellow volunteer Kevin Beck explains why helping children learn about nature is so rewarding.

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Meet our volunteers at RSPB Ouse Fen nature reserve. This truly is conservation in action. We're working with building materials supplier Hanson to transform a working sand and gravel quarry into a thriving nature reserve.

Puffins numbers have dropped sharply in recent years, and to help us understand how we can help these much-loved birds, we launched Project Puffin.

An exciting part of our project was Puffarazzi, our citizen science campaign, which shows that everyone can contribute to conservation. We asked volunteers from all over the UK to visit puffin colonies and take photos of puffins with fish in their bills, to help us find out more about what they eat. 

The response we received was awesome: 600 volunteers sent us more than 1,400 images from almost 40 colonies around the UK. It’s a fantastic achievement and one that could make all the difference in helping these iconic birds.  

If you want to find out more about our results so far and read updates about the team’s progress visit rspb.org.uk/projectpuffin