National Trust Working holidays are an exciting and interesting way for people to volunteer and make a difference in conserving the environment and the UK
The volunteers bring with them a wealth of knowledge and new ideas, skills and experience that the National Trust and others benefit from. The holidays ensure that vital work gets addressed leading to the continued preservation and improvement of a wide spectrum of properties and makes a contribution towards visitor enjoyment and bring locations to life
Volunteers have the opportunity to work in some amazing places, gain new skills and enjoy, often unique, experiences.
Over the last week a team of volunteers have been hard at work at High Close. As part of a larger ongoing volunteer project of reinstating the footpath infrastructure and opening up the grounds for visitors to enjoy the group began work on reinstating the footpath from our new visitor car park into the grounds
The group started work on laying the edging stones....
Once the edging was in place this was backfilled with stone to surface the path...
Some work was also done on the banking to remove invasive American Raspberry and to landscape the area ready for grass seeding
We didn't work the group all week, the volunteers got a break and spent the day at Tower Wood on Lake Windermere. Our instructor for the day was Loz who took the group out to enjoy some Kayaking, Sailing and the high ropes tower
A great day was had by all ....
By the end of the week the volunteers had completed the path which now provides valuable access to visitors to the Lake District at High Close. Thank you to all the volunteers for their hard work over the week.
To find out more about the different types of National Trust Working Holidays visit the National Trust Website Here
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