Young Rangers

Are you young and want to make a difference for nature? Do you enjoy getting outdoors whatever the weather and like the idea of helping manage our nature reserves? Young Rangers could be just what you are looking for. This great monthly volunteer session is aimed at young people, is ½ day and taking place at sites across the county.

Young Ranger sessions run on Sundays at 10am until 1pm at all sites except Skylarks which runs on a Saturday.

We are currently accepting new applicants for Skylarks and City Young Rangers. Inductions for new members will be taking place for Skylarks on 18th October and City on 19th October. Further info will be sent to applicants.

We also no longer accept Duke of Edinburgh applicants at Attenborough.

Our North Notts Young Ranger group is quite unique in that it’s not based at one reserve. Instead, the young rangers get the opportunity to ‘rove’ across different NWT reserves in the north of the county and experience a wider variety of habitats.

Our main reserve ‘hubs’ are Idle Valley nature reserve in Retford and Rainworth Heath nature reserve in Rainworth, Mansfield. We move around to a variety of other sites such as Strawberry Hill Heath, Daneshill lakes, Eaton & Gamston woods and many more. This allows our young rangers to get hands on experience with Wetlands, Heathlands, coppice woodlands and more in our wonderful mosaic of habitats up here in the north.

We are also happy to offer transport from Idle Valley or Rainworth Heath if that helps the young people attend the sessions, We don’t want the roving nature of our group to make the sessions inaccessible to anyone.