Beyond Lockdown - A volunteer's perspective
Lockdown has had a big effect on all of us, not least our volunteers, many of whom had to stop work with us altogether at the height of the Covid-19 crisis. Great Fen volunteer Caroline Lewis…
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21 years on… why are we here?
CEO Brian Eversham looks back at 21 years since joining the staff at the Wildlife Trust.
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Josh Hellon (Monitoring & Research Manager) on what the Wildlife Trust BCN means to him
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Nicky Hennessy, Lilbourne Meadows Reserves Officer, explains how her career with the Wildlife Trust started at the Great Fen as a Volunteer Reserves Officer
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