Volunteering at Lotherton
Volunteer with us
Set within 54 tranquil hectares of historic landscape, Lotherton offers a variety of volunteering opportunities all year around. Whether your interests lie in working alongside animals in Wildlife World, helping our gardening team transform our listed formal gardens or picking apples to be squeezed into our famous apple juice we have a world of opportunities for you.
If you are reliable, dedicated and passionate about making a difference we are interested in hearing from you.
Volunteers at Wildlife World
If you have an interest in all things animals and are looking to volunteer, we'd love to hear from you.
We want to accommodate animal team volunteers to ensure both the goals and objectives of the zoo are met, as well as providing training opportunities for volunteers who have a passion for zoos and animal husbandry.
Lotherton Wildlife World commits to support volunteers with the necessary induction and training to ensure the development of relevant skills and experience.
Volunteers will be given opportunities to learn and develop new skills, meet new people, make industry contacts helping you in future career gaols.
Duties will involve assisting the animal team with some of the routine day-to-day tasks required to run Wildlife World’s animal collection. This includes but is not limited to, preparing and distributing animal feed, cleaning animal enclosures and visitor areas, theming animal enclosures, recording environmental data and much more.
If this sounds like you, request more information and an expression of interest form by emailing: LothertonWW.Volunteers@leeds.gov.uk
Garden Volunteers
We are currently recruiting gardening volunteers to work on the historic grounds at Lotherton Hall. In this role you will work alongside the skilled gardening and estate team.
Duties would mainly involve, pruning, planting, general herbaceous and mixed border maintenance, leaf clearance, apple picking, path maintenance as well as a number of other jobs in the gardens and around the estate.
This is a great opportunity for anyone wanting to learn and develop horticultural skills. We can accommodate regular volunteer days on Wednesdays and Thursdays each week or ad-hoc days with enough notice. Hours per day can be flexible from 3 to 6 hours.
If this sounds like you, request more information and an expression of interest form by emailing: LothertonEstate.Volunteers@leeds.gov.uk
Volunteer with Leeds Museums and Galleries
We offer flexible, short and long-term volunteering at each of our eight sites to give you an opportunity to gain new skills and enhance the visitor experience.