Welcome to the North Pennines National Landscape and UNESCO Global Geopark. This special place is a protected landscape and our team looks after it. You can help us to protect it by volunteering. Our volunteers make a huge difference to our work.

Volunteering opportunities

 We have a variety of volunteering opportunities such as:

• tree planting
• seed collecting
• seed sowing
• helping at our Bowlees Visitor Centre – greeting visitors and retail work
• access and rights of way improvements
• Pennine Way People project
• heritage site assessments and recording
• wildlife and botanical surveys
• event stewarding

You can find volunteering activities in our events calendar.

Why volunteer with us?

• try a new activity and gain skills
• boost your wellbeing
• meet people
• form a closer connection to nature
• learn about what makes this place special

Sign up

We list all of our volunteering opportunities on our volunteer management platform, Better Impact. Register as a volunteer using this application form or go to our volunteer page.

Read our volunteer handbook.