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Four people in an urban woodland, cutting back foliage and clearing weeds from a pond.
Two people raking bracken on Baildon Moor on a windy summer day. They are using traditional wooden rakes.
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Corporate Volunteering

Corporate Volunteering Opportunities

Is your business interested in making a difference to our natural environment, people and places?  Want to take part in a fun and productive teambuilding day?

We have a range of meaningful opportunities that enable our corporate volunteers to develop their skills and understand how they can make a contribution to supporting the local environment and communities in which they live and work.  Make a conservation day part of your Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) plan or Corporate Social Responsibility.

Full training and equipment is provided, often using traditional methods of managing the natural landscape such as cutting back vegetation with scythes and sickles.  Please see examples of previous corporate volunteer opportunities below and read what one of our recent business volunteer groups got from their day with us .

Tasks will vary according to the season but do get in touch to find out how we can match you with a volunteering opportunity.

If the day coincides with our regular Conservation Volunteer days, there is no cost to you.  If you require a bespoke volunteering event we can discuss costs to cover planning and administration expenses.

Interested in how your team can make a difference?   Please email volunteer@bradfordymca.org.uk or complete an enquiry form below.

Take a look at some of our previous corporate volunteering days

A large team from Hallmark Cards joined us in the community orchard we manage to undertake a number of seasonal management tasks such as coppicing hedging to use to make natural fencing panels, cutting back overgrown paths, weeding under fruit trees and adding material to our composting heaps.  It was a lovely warm day and the feedback was very positive.  The group left with a greater understanding of fruit production, positivity and community spirit.

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Liberty Global joined our team to undertake a summer task of cutting back bracken on Baildon Moor above Bradford.  This was done using traditional tools such as scythes, sickles and wooden hay rakes.  Doing this allows native plant species such as heathers and bilberries to grow and flourish by removing the competition of the bracken.  Increasing the biodiversity of the moor improves the habitats of moorland plants and animals.

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“Our team took part in the leaf shelter building. We had a fantastic day and felt truly privileged to be able to spend time in such a beautiful space.

We certainly learned a lot of practical skills – such as cutting chicken wire and how to make a deep hole(!)  But we also learned why we were doing what we were doing (I never knew that leaves decay more slowly than other organic matter, for example), and the BEES team gave
us a tour of the site where they shared loads of information about the site and the plants that grow there.  I love the passion that the team has for the site.  Without doubt, the day spend volunteering left us more conscious of the fragility and preciousness of our environment.

I think that the volunteer day truly benefited the team’s mental health – a great combination of physical activity, beautiful environment, team work and the sense of a job well done left us all in a super positive frame of mind. We will be back in 2025!”

Phillipa Dixon, Company Secretary Hallmark Cards, Bradford

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