Volunteer with Woodlands

• Gain a sense of achievement: Helping an animal in need can give you a sense of pride and achievement.
• Enhance your skills: Doing varied tasks with a variety of volunteers can help you to enhance a number of skills including confidence, communication and team work.
• Strengthen your CV: Volunteering can be an invaluable addition to your CV. Employers can see you have gone the extra mile to help learn new skills.
• Help your mental health and fitness: Many of our volunteers claim that being around, or working for animal welfare, and being part of a community has significant benefits in their fitness, mental health, confidence, and social interactions.
• Increase your network: You will meet and interact with some fantastic like-minded individuals, so you’ll definitely make some new friends along the way!

You can become a Woodlands Warrior no matter what age you are! However if you are under the age of 15 we ask that you are chaperoned at all times by a parent or guardian. Unfortunately, if you are under 16 you will not be able to participate in street collections and bag packs.

Please note we are situated in Holmeswood, Lancashire so applications anywhere other than the Lancashire area will not be contacted.

Typical volunteer tasks at the Sanctuary may include (depending on the role):

• Cat cuddling
• Stable & farm work
• Cleaning cat pens
• Open day and event support (manning stalls, attending to the car park etc)
• Community fundraising (bingo nights / quizzes / collections)

Typical volunteer tasks at the Hub may include (depending on the role):

• Sorting and pricing donated items
• Operating the cash register
• Arranging displays and merchandising
• Providing customer service
• Light cleaning and organizing
• Driving for collection and deliveries.