Sabellaria surveying with the Marine Trainees!
Week number 3 as the new conservation apprentices and we are settling in brilliantly. We’ve already partaken in days with many of the other staff here at Cumbria Wildlife Trust and are enjoying…
Blog: Apprentice Conservation Officers
Get closer to the field and a little more behind the scenes by reading about the wild experiences, wildlife insights and recollections of staff and volunteers – writers from all over the organisation, from our Reserve Officers to our student placements.
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Surveying seals at South Walney
I finally visited what, in my experience, has been one of our most talked about reserves: South Walney.
Wildflower meadow restoration with the Meadow Life project
This afternoon we spent plug planting in a meadow overlooking Kendal and Oxenholme.
Finding Crab Apples and Beach Clean at Seascale
A busy day with Jamie, CWT's Senior Education Officer
CWT members conference at Newton Rigg
A date that was in our diaries ever since we started this traineeship was Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s annual member’s conference
BogLIFE conference 4-6th October
An informative three days at the Cumbria BogLIFE conference in Penrith
Conference, ducks and poetry: YDMT supporter’s lunch at Bolton Abbey
As Isaac and my apprenticeship scheme is run through Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, we were invited to their annual supporter’s day at Bolton Abbey in Skipton.
BBC Radio Cumbria Interview & Media Training
Isaac and I had our first radio interview! It was on BBC Radio Cumbria, as part of a programme on apprenticeships.
Green Futures' successful pilot residential
Our apprenticeship has come from a scheme called ‘Green Futures’, a project run by Our Bright Future. Green Futures consists of four environmental youth orientated groups: Eco Schools, Young…
Meadow Life Ceilidh
Meadow Life is a hay meadow restoration project that has been running here at CWT for three and a half years. It comes to an end at the end of October, so the ceilidh was organised to celebrate…