Volunteering at Dalby Forest

Join your local team of volunteers to learn new skills, meet new people, make new friends and enhance your local forest for the benefit of nature and the community.

Visitor Experience Volunteers 

This enthusiastic team aim to help visitors get the most out of their visit to Dalby Forest. They could be giving general information about the facilities, advising on the best cycle trail or explaining where to spot our Gruffalo! Sometimes, we might need you at a mobile information station, offering help to visitors about trails, walks, bike rides, toilets, cafes and everything in between! Other times we might ask you to help with car parking, tidying and litter-picking the outside areas near the Visitor Centre or walking the trails as a highly visible member of staff to offer support to visitors. 

We will provide full training for the Visitor Experience Volunteer role. This will include an induction to the Visitor Centre and wider site. If you think you’d like to help people get the most from their visits, please complete this form and when asked which role you’d like to apply for type “Visitor Experience Volunteer”.  

Activity Leaders 

Activity Leaders are friendly, approachable and thrive when engaging with people on a busy, visitor focused site. You will enjoy helping children and adults alike enjoy the activity you are leading, be it a craft session, beanbag toss or guided walk! Your passion for the forest and the outdoors will inspire our visitors to enjoy Dalby and want to return to discover more. You will be working in a friendly and approachable team, helping us to provide an excellent customer service experience for each person who visits.

We will provide full training for this role, however we are looking for people with initiative who are happy to lead their activity independently. If you think you’d like to engage a new audience with an activity you love, please complete this form and when asked which role you’d like to apply for type “Activity Leader”. 

Friends of Dalby Forest 

The Friends of Dalby Forest are a small, friendly group who meet regularly in Dalby Forest to undertake a variety of tasks to support the Forest. These are often practical jobs such as removing regeneration from scheduled ancient monuments, enhancing play areas, trail maintenance, habitat restoration and just about everything in between. 
 
You can see what they get up to on their blog and if you think that this is the role for you, please complete this application form and type “Friends of Dalby Forest” in the relevant box. 

Dalby Bike Trail Maintenance 

If you’re into your mountain biking, then why not join this motivated group who get together monthly to make sure the trails are in great condition for riders. The group carry out a variety of maintenance tasks to ensure the trails are safe and fun. From resurfacing, restructuring and re-berming, to removing vegetation from trail edges and overhead, this group do it all. 

If this sounds like the role for you, please complete this form and type “Dalby Bike Trail Maintenance” in the relevant box.