We are a growing not-for-profit community group and always happy to have more members and volunteers.
Our membership are the people who are on our mailing list and attend our events and help us by volunteering.
Our volunteers help with administration, events, projects – swift and hedgehogs for example, leafleting, online technical help and many others. You choose what you can help with. Please read the section below and register your volunteering interests!
Non-Specific Volunteer Opportunities
If you willing to be added to our database of general volunteers, please press the Volunteer button below to be presented with a very short form to complete. You will then be emailed a link allowing you to fill in more details about your skills and interests, at your convenience, so that we can try and match you up with suitable opportunities as and when they arise:
Specific Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities
Small Mammal Surveys
We need more volunteers willing to learn about small mammal surveying.
This involves training to learn how to set humane small mammal traps. Trapping takes place early mornings (usually 7am) and then evenings, also about 7pm. Small mammal records are lacking in the UK and yet they are a crucial part of the food chain. It is therefore important we record and share with other organisations so we have a good map of where each species can be found.
So, if you wish to learn about surveying in the field and being part of citizen science, give us a shout!
Email: hello@wildchiswick.com for more details and be involved.
Fancy being part of our hedgehog highway team?
We are looking for people who are keen to help us drill holes in fences to provide safe access across gardens for our local hedgehogs.
This is one of the best things anyone can do to help hedgehogs, as well as keep a wildlife friendly garden.
We will give training and we have the equipment, so all we need is a person who is happy talking to people and happy to help us drill the holes!
Contact us on: hello@wildchiswick.com for more details.
Enjoy being outside and helping wildlife?
We are looking for people who will come and help us on our wildlife allotment down Staveley Road.
We meet for approx. 1.5 hrs a week and work on weeding, planting, pond maintenance and habitat creation.
We do need people willing to visit the site more during dry/hot weather to keep the plants alive.
Contact us on hello@wildchiswick.com for more details
Help us spread the word!
We are looking for people to come along and help us talk to the public at our various events.
These can be inside or outside events, during the day or evenings.
We usually talk about hedgehogs, wildlife gardening and sometimes hold crafting events for children.
Happy to have people come and volunteer for an hour or two!
Events booked so far:
- 23rd May Boston Manor Park Nature Festival
- 10th June Think you know all about whiskers? Speaker evening event.
- 7th June Chiswick Flower Market
Contact us on events@wildchiswick.com if you think you can help.
Chiswick Repair Cafe foyer event
Morning of 16th May
We will be in the foyer of the Repair Cafe, St Michael’s Church, Turnham Green on 16th May.
This will be for a few hours in the morning.
We will speak about our soon to be launched Nature Survey 2026 and wildlife gardening.
We will need one or two people to help Joanne, our Founder, talk to people who pass through.
Briefing will be given!
Please email events@wildchiswick.com if you can come along and help
Wildlife Allotment Open Days.
31st May and 14th June
This will be a first for us and we are very excited about it!
We will be opening our wildlife allotment on Staveley Road to the public on two mornings through May and June
We will need assistance from 10.30aqm until 1.30pm on each day – dates shown above.
This is a free event that will require registration as we want to keep attendance manageable in a setting that is public and has a pond.
We need:
Help with the set up of tables, arts and crafts for children and the pond dipping equipment
Greeting people at the Staveley Road Forecourt and walk them down to the allotment
Help showing people around.
Assisting with the children’s art and crafts (parents will be accompanying children)
General help to keep everything running smoothly.
Briefing will be given before the event starts.
Really keen for this to be a special event each date and so delighted for any volunteers who can help this to happen
Please email events@wildchiswick.com if you can come along and help.
National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme 2026
June and July 2026
We are in need of volunteers to help us install the 30 cameras across Chiswick as part of hte National Hedgehog Monitoring programme, a citizen science survey that is now in it’s fourth year. This project with help scientists to work out actual densities of hedgehogs across Britain.
We work with People’s Trust for Endangered Species and Zoological Society of London on this project.
Training will be given. So you will also learn how to set up a trail camera!
The dates are:
June 23rd for putting out the cameras.
July 24th to collect the cameras.
Depending on the amount of volunteers, this could take 2 – 4 hours. Timings will be provided nearer the time. It will be in the mornings.
Please email hogs@wildchiswick.com if you are interested.
