Conservation Log

The Conservation Volunteers (TCV)
Trowbridge - North Wiltshire Group
Volunteer Officer
  • Canal and River Trust - Kennet & Avon Canal: Various tasks and work including the following
    • Caen Hill Locks, Devizes, Seend Cleeve, Honeystreet, Wilcot, Limpley Stoke, Bath, Dundas Aquaduct
      • Post and rail fencing
      • Scrub and ditch clearance
      • Coppicing
      • Hedge-laying and management
      • Lock painting and maintenance
      • Towpath maintenance and resurfacing
  • Nursteed CP School, Devizes: nature pond construction
  • Ammerdown Estate, Somerset
    • Creation of pond side rail fence on wooden board-walk
    • Scrub clearance
    • Post and wire fencing
    • Hazel coppicing
    • Ditch clearance 
  • 10th Chippenham Scouts
    • Organise and ran a task day teaching Scouts the traditional skills of hedge-laying


  • Morgan's Hill Nature Reserve: Reserve warden from June 2012. Site is a chalk grassland SSSI in the North Wessex Downs AONB, important for its diverse range of butterflies and wildflowers.
    • Habitat management
    • Estate work
    • Biological  monitoring and surveying
    • Communicating with the public
    • Blog about the reserve
    •  Stepping Stones project


Academic
  • Open University Module 
    • S159 Neighbourhood Nature - Pass grade, field study well achieved
  • Nord-Trondelag University College
    • BID902 Bird appearance national UK - C grade 15 credits 
  • Acorn Ecology Ltd
    • Habitat Management - self study course
  • Alison
    •  Exploring Planet Earth - Its Systems and Resources
    •  Environmental Awareness in Geography
  • Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
    • Leadership Course
  • The Conservation Volunteers
    • Day Project Leadership Course
    • Safeguarding 
    • Introduction to Health & Safety 
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  • City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma in Work Based Environmental Conservation
    • 340 hours work on above projects
    • Mandatory units
      • 200 - Monitoring and maintaining health and safety
      • 201 - Maintain and develop personal performance
      • 202 - Establish and maintain working relationships with others
      • 203 - Maintain environmental good practice at work
      • 204 - Communicate with the public and others
      • 205 - Promote responsible public use of the environment
    • Optional units
      • 209 - Conduct and report on a field survey for animals (birds)
      • 251 - Construct, maintain and repair post and wire fence boundaries
      • 288 - Manage vegetation by cutting and mowing
      • 290 - Manage vegetation by hedge maintenance
      • 293 - Manage vegetation by uprooting

  •  City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Work Based Environmental Conservation
    • Mandatory units
      • 321 - Communicate with, and care for, the public and others
    • Optional units
      • 277 - Establish and protect grassland vegetation
      • 279 - Carry out habitat management
      • 314 - Co-ordinate and oversee habitat management work
      • 316 - Encourage and motivate volunteers
      • 317 - Manage the work of volunteers 
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  • Disclosure and Barring Service Check
  • UK Driving License Categories B, BE, C1, C1E, D1, D1E




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