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We are looking for passionate, dedicated and resourceful people to join us. If you have an interest in nature conservation and a passion for our values, we would love to hear from you.
Take a look, through some of the common species of wildlife that live in the South Yorkshire area around Sheffield and Rotherham.
A recently extended patch of heathland and woodland, neighbouring Wyming Brook.
Our Acorn Fund is a pot of money allocated specifically to help release money from the Landfill Communities Fund. Your donation can be the key to unlocking funding worth thousands of pounds to make a huge difference for local wildlife.
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Maps, monitoring, databases and development - meet the team that make the magic happen!
It takes a group of people with a very particular set of skills to master monitoring, evaluate the evidence, deal with the data and master mapping. This lot has it covered. Meet the team!
Anna is our Ecological Monitoring Officer. She organises a group of excellent volunteers and carries out a wide range of monitoring on our nature reserves, from bird surveys, to sward height measurements and counting wood ant nests.
She delivers our adaptive ecological monitoring framework, which operates on a six year rolling basis, with most surveys taking place every three years and some (where the rate of change is expected to be slower) every six. What we monitor links directly to our long term vision statements for our reserves, which are linked to our management objectives. This means that we can make evidence-based decisions about the management of our nature reserves, continually bringing new data into the system. An example of the types of surveys we undertake and data we collect is demonstrated in our Working with Nature: Woodhouse Washlands story map. Contact volunteering@wildsheffield.com to find out more about how to get involved.
Fiona is our GIS Officer. GIS stands for Geographical Information Systems – essentially, it is mapping and spatial analysis. Fiona manages our GIS systems including QGIS and Arc Online . She produces a range of maps and analysis for different teams at the Trust, and helps teams work with and collect spatial data in the field.
Discover more of the work she does in her blog post. Or see some of the work she has created on our website such as the Community Action for Nature map. This map allows members of the community to record where they are taking action for nature. Or have a look at the Sheffield Swift Map and the swift boxes installed across the city.
Sam is our Senior Database Officer. He manages our Nature Counts database, which is where the Trust collects and stores all of our species and ecology monitoring data. Nature Counts is used by several other Wildlife Trusts across the country, so Sam also has a role in supporting these Trusts get the best out of the system.
He also manages internal databases used to track key information about our members, volunteers and other key contacts that is vital to the strategic and engagement work of the trust.
Our brilliant surveying and monitoring volunteers – we couldn’t do it without them. Thanks team!
If you fancy getting involved get in touch
Our Evidence-led Conservation is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund.