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Volunteer Positions now available

Every year, volunteers give their time and enthusiasm to help us achieve our mission by raising money and offering skills, valuable knowledge and time.

If you’d like to volunteer for ITF then we’d love to hear from you. We are always looking for people to help with communications, fundraising, office management and programmes.

For details on these positions, all of which are based at our offices in Oxford, please click the button below:

View Volunteer Roles here

We are are always open to suggestions for other ways you can become involved. Volunteering can be very rewarding and as an ITF volunteer, your role can vary to suit your skills, interest and availability. We will support you by giving you all the information you need to feel confident in the role, be it representing ITF in your local community, fundraising or other work on behalf of ITF. Please remember that we don’t expect you to commit forever, but for as long and as involved as you’d like. If you have a set period of time or a certain set of skills then we can help find the right opportunities specifically for you.

If you’d like to discuss volunteering with ITF, please email us or call our offices.

Volunteers play a vital role in helping ITF. We can’t exist without your help.

Current Volunteers

Rosi - GIS Mapping

We are very grateful to Rosi who is doing an amazing job at creating a map of all our planting projects in Kenya.

Lizzie - Fundraising

Lizzie is doing an incredible job researching in to corporate sponsorships and doing the ground work of our new individual giving project.

Volunteer Stories

Liz was looking for something that would make her ‘feel useful,’ and teach her ‘some new things,’ so she decided to approach ITF. Volunteering for one day a week, Liz took on the role of admin assistant and proof reader; a role over of the ITF magazine before it was released, and also actually seeing the magazine finally in print, with the secure knowledge that there would be no grammatical mistakes, vital work for ITF in its professional publications. As for future plans, Liz would like to volunteer in a primary school to get children excited about trees. Favourite tree? ‘Beech trees and eucalyptus. It’s hard to choose.’ Photo: Jeff Kublina

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Ian contacted ITF after spotting an advert in the National Archives Archon Directory and within 2 weeks, he was an official volunteer for the ITF. Requiring archival experience as part of his application for an MA course in Archive Management, Ian set to work organising ITF’s archive, cataloguing the collection, identifying items with publicity value, carrying out research and responding to inquiries. Far from an easy task, much work was put into creating a formal catalogue which will be accessible for future users, a great achievement which will benefit the ITF hugely, and help Ian towards the career ambition of working in archive management.

Favourite tree? ‘Probably Scots Pine, as they remind me of the Surrey heathland I grew up around. Although a mature Cedar of Lebanon would run it a close second!’

Photo: Jim Champion

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Anh is originally from Vietnam having recently moved to the UK via the USA. Anh contacted ITF to see what volunteering opportunities were available. With an aim of improving her language skills and keeping her office skills up-to-date, Anh has got stuck into projects at ITF headquarters which has revealed a wealth of information. Through scanning old journals, the work of ITF is being made more accessible going back to the 1930’s. Anh is currently starting a catalogue of all the trees that ITF have been involved in planting. When asked what her greatest achievement was while volunteering for ITF, Anh replied, ‘Increasing my knowledge about the environment and the importance of trees to life on Earth.’

Favourite tree? ‘The oak tree is so strong and makes the landscape beautiful”

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Looking for a career as a contents writer for websites, Francesca approached ITF to gain experience in writing for social media and for e-newsletters. Starting work in January, Francesca has written articles for the newsletter on tree planting projects in Africa and the UK and on electric cars and accompanying Facebook posts as well as Twitter feeds on projects and green energy. The most satisfying aspect of the role has been researching the areas and the people involved in the projects and the writing challenge of working within the word limits of social media. With a background in writing learning materials for museums and for environmental organisations, Francesca hopes to develop her writing in a number of styles and promote the value of trees and wildlife.

Favourite Tree? ‘My favourite trees are palm trees and monkey puzzles as it reminds me of being on holiday in Devon and Cornwall. I loved seeing exotic plants while exploring the area.’

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Organisations such as ITF rely on fundraising and sponsorship to raise funds for important projects.Tari is one of our fundraising volunteers and will be helping to organise street collections during the Brighton Marathon and gain corporate sponsorship from various law firms. A final year student of law at the University of Brighton, Tari was searching for work experience and came across the ITF through a relative and then had a look on our website. Volunteering has been a good experience, ‘what I find most rewarding is the feeling that I’m doing something for a good cause,’ and, ‘getting to know more about the environment and the importance of trees.’

Favourite Tree? ‘Evergreen trees are the best. They’ve got a beautiful shape and remind me of Christmas.’

Photo: vaula

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