Make a difference by volunteering
We are able to organise environmentally-themed volunteer sessions for corporate companies at school and community sites in Devon, Dorset and Somerset, as well as at your own site. We also offer volunteering opportunities at community events including our annual Children's Christmas Give and Take events.
Our staff lead has years of event management experience, an Enhanced DBS certificate and safeguarding training, and a Higher National Diploma in Landscape Design and Construction from Capel Manor College, so regardless of your staff's experience or knowledge, volunteers can get stuck in to make a positive impact.
By volunteering with us, you'll be:
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Providing excellent corporate social responsibility team building activities.
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Directly supporting biodiversity by helping to transform existing areas, or create new areas, which feed important pollinators including bees, and provide an essential habitat for wildlife (for gardening opportunities and tree planting).
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Helping local families to gain free, preloved toys, books, DVDS and clothing (our Give and Take events).
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Promoting your business to our followers and supporters.
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Directly supporting an award-winning environmental education organisation, and the state-funded schools and communities we serve.
Event example
We organised a volunteering morning for Westcotts Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers, who transformed an overgrown area at All Saints CE Primary School in East Devon into a child-friendly sensory garden perfect for vital pollinating insects, including bees and butterflies, in just one morning.
They removed a huge quantity of weeds and self-seeded tree saplings, which were unsuitable for the area, replacing them with edible and medicinal plants including thyme, fennel, rosemary and chamomile. They also planted Spring flowering bulbs to increase essential nectar sources for important pollinators like early bumblebees. Great work, Westcotts!
“Little Green Change is a fantastic local organisation with a very important mission, and we at Westcotts are delighted that we could get involved, and give back to our local community.”
Robyn Gifford-England
Westcotts Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers.
““We are extremely grateful for the support from Little Green Change and Westcotts Chartered Accountants. Their hard work has transformed our Courtyard and our Forest School/Biodiversity area. Our pupils will be delighted - even more so when the flowers bloom in Spring and Summer.”
Phillip Lee
All Saints CE Primary School, Devon.
Support us
To help us cover our associated staff time and material costs, we ask corporate companies for a minimum donation per hour for each volunteer session we organise. Travel costs for locations beyond a 10 mile radius of Little Green Change's South-West office in Lyme Regis will be charged at 50p per mile in addition to this.
We rely on regular funding and donations to continue and expand the valuable environmental education and action services we offer free to state-funded schools and communities (we can't continue without this), so the financial help you're able to give is hugely appreciated and makes a big difference!
Our awards
We're proud to have gained a number of awards and recognitions since our launch in 2023, including:
We're accredited members of Social Enterprise UK, and Dorset Climate Action Network
