Conservation Log

The Conservation Volunteers (TCV)
Trowbridge - North Wiltshire Group
Volunteer Officer

• Canal and River Trust - Kennet & Avon Canal: Various tasks and work including the following
• Caen Hill Locks, Devizes, Seend Cleeve, Honeystreet, Wilcot, Limpley Stoke, Bath, Dundas Aquaduct
• Post and rail fencing
• Scrub and ditch clearance
• Coppicing
• Hedge-laying and management
• Lock painting and maintenance
• Towpath maintenance and resurfacing
• Nursteed CP School, Devizes: nature pond construction
• Ammerdown Estate, Somerset
• Creation of pond side rail fence on wooden board-walk
• Scrub clearance
• Post and wire fencing
• Hazel coppicing
• Ditch clearance 
• 10th Chippenham Scouts
• Organise and ran a task day teaching Scouts the traditional skills of hedge-laying

British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)

• Breeding Bird Survey (BBS)
• ST9880 North Wiltshire near Christian Malford & Dauntsey Lock
• 2012 season survey
• 2013 season survey
• Winter Thrush Survey 2012-2014
• SU0467: Core square, North Down, Wiltshire
• SU0267: Morgan's Hill, Wiltshire

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust

• Morgan's Hill Nature Reserve: Reserve warden from June 2012. Site is a chalk grassland SSSI in the North Wessex Downs AONB, important for its diverse range of butterflies and wildflowers.
• Habitat management
• Estate work
• Biological  monitoring and surveying
• Communicating with the public
• Blog about the reserve
•  Stepping Stones project

Academic

• Open University Module 
• S159 Neighbourhood Nature - Pass grade, field study well achieved
• Nord-Trondelag University College
• BID902 Bird appearance national UK - C grade 15 credits 
• Acorn Ecology Ltd
• Habitat Management - self study course
• Alison
•  Exploring Planet Earth - Its Systems and Resources
•  Environmental Awareness in Geography
• Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
• Leadership Course
• The Conservation Volunteers
• Day Project Leadership Course
• Safeguarding 
• Introduction to Health & Safety 
 
 

• City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma in Work Based Environmental Conservation
• 340 hours work on above projects
• Mandatory units
• 200 - Monitoring and maintaining health and safety
• 201 - Maintain and develop personal performance
• 202 - Establish and maintain working relationships with others
• 203 - Maintain environmental good practice at work
• 204 - Communicate with the public and others
• 205 - Promote responsible public use of the environment
• Optional units
• 209 - Conduct and report on a field survey for animals (birds)
• 251 - Construct, maintain and repair post and wire fence boundaries
• 288 - Manage vegetation by cutting and mowing
• 290 - Manage vegetation by hedge maintenance
• 293 - Manage vegetation by uprooting

•  City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Work Based Environmental Conservation
• Mandatory units
• 321 - Communicate with, and care for, the public and others
• Optional units
• 277 - Establish and protect grassland vegetation
• 279 - Carry out habitat management
• 314 - Co-ordinate and oversee habitat management work
• 316 - Encourage and motivate volunteers
• 317 - Manage the work of volunteers 
 
 
• Disclosure and Barring Service Check
• UK Driving License Categories B, BE, C1, C1E, D1, D1E