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Location: Peckover House, North Brink, Wisbech, PE13 1JR
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract
Salary: £14,321 per annum
We’re looking for a Ranger to join our team to lead community work on the estate for Peckover House. If you’re well organised with bags of initiative and good at developing relationships, then this could be the ideal role for you.
We're embedding a programme of community and partnership working with local groups, and we want to do more - you’ll be the driving force behind building connections to future partners as well as maintaining existing partnerships.
- Closing Date: 05/05/2024
- Location: Peckover House, North Brink, Wisbech, PE13 1JR
- Posted: 22/04/2024
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Location: Cliveden, Maidenhead, SL6 0JA
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £19,094 per annum
We’ve got an exciting opportunity for a Ranger to join our team at Cliveden.
As a Ranger, you’re the heart and soul of the National Trust in the landscapes we protect. You’re a champion of nature conservation and the great outdoors, and you’ll play a crucial role in keeping the nation’s beloved countryside and coast in good shape, for wildlife and for people.
- Closing Date: 05/05/2024
- Location: Cliveden, Maidenhead, SL6 0JA
- Posted: 22/04/2024
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Location: Hinton Ampner, Bramdean, Alresford, SO24 0LA
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract
Salary: £26,832 per annum
You’ll report to our Countryside Manager, completing a team of five at Hinton Ampner all focussed on the delivery of our Reimagining a Hampshire Estate Project. Together we form a Countryside department with a small team of Rangers looking after our commons in North East Hampshire. We collaborate with property colleagues alongside specialists in Estates, Farming, Trees, Archaeology all helping us achieve our ambition.
- Closing Date: 05/05/2024
- Location: Hinton Ampner, Bramdean, Alresford, SO24 0LA
- Posted: 22/04/2024
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Location: Hinton Ampner, Bramdean, Alresford, SO24 0LA
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract
Salary: £26,832 per annum
Do you love landscape conservation and involving people in our ambition for nature recovery? If you’re organised, enthusiastic about nature, woodlands, grasslands and regenerative agriculture and love working in a collaborative environment, we have an ideal role for you.
- Closing Date: 05/05/2024
- Location: Hinton Ampner, Bramdean, Alresford, SO24 0LA
- Posted: 22/04/2024
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Location: Sherborne Park, Sherborne, Cheltenham, GL54 3DW
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £23,868 per annum
Rangers have been a part of the National Trust since the beginning - the voice of our landscapes, conservation champions and lovers of all things outdoors. In this exciting role you will play an integral role in preserving ancient semi-natural woodland and SSSI limestone grassland, as well as assisting with one of the largest parkland restoration projects in Europe.
- Closing Date: 05/05/2024
- Location: Sherborne Park, Sherborne, Cheltenham, GL54 3DW
- Posted: 22/04/2024
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Location: High Close Property Office, High Close, Ambleside, LA22 9HH
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £26,832 per annum
The voice of our landscapes, conservation champions and lovers of all things outdoors, you’ll help to keep the British countryside and coast wonderful. Working in some of the nation’s most stunning places and spaces, come rain or shine, your love of the outdoors will inspire others as you strive to ensure that landscapes are beautifully presented and continue to take our visitors’ breath away.
- Closing Date: 05/05/2024
- Location: High Close Property Office, High Close, Ambleside, LA22 9HH
- Posted: 22/04/2024
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Community Forest Ranger - National Trust
Contract Length: 2 years
As a Community Forest Ranger, you’ll be managing the delivery of a woodland creation project at Buckland Abbey, Devon. You’re a champion of nature conservation and the great outdoors, and you’ll play a crucial role in the delivery of our Land, Outdoors and Nature strategy with real positive changes for nature and people. You will work alongside our Visitor Experience team to create an engagement plan to support community volunteering and events.
- Closing Date: 28/04/2024
- Location: Buckland Abbey, Devon
- Posted: 18/04/2024
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Project Manager - Nature Accelerators - National Trust
Location: South West Wales AO, The Granary, Llandeilo, SA19 6RT
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract
Salary: £44,500 per annum
We're looking for an experienced landscape-scale conservation project manager to join a dynamic team in Wales. With many years of ground-breaking peat restoration, woodland creation and nature improvement work already underway, this is a unique opportunity to be behind accelerating delivery of our strategic vision.
- Closing Date: 28/04/2024
- Location: South West Wales AO, The Granary, Llandeilo, SA19 6RT
- Posted: 15/04/2024
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Location: Botallack, St Just, TR19 7QQ
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract
Salary: £23,868 per annum
As a Ranger, you’re the heart and soul of the National Trust in the landscapes we protect. You’re a champion of nature conservation and the great outdoors, and you’ll play a crucial role in keeping the nation’s beloved countryside and coast in good shape, for wildlife and for people.
You’ll be helping to protect and care for habitats, wildlife, livestock, buildings and machinery.
- Closing Date: 28/04/2024
- Location: Botallack, St Just, TR19 7QQ
- Posted: 15/04/2024
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Location: North Devon, Arlington Court, Arlington, EX31 4LP
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract
Salary: £27,500 per annum
As a countryside property, the National Trust in Arlington is at the forefront of conservation – managing its estate through a small but dedicated team, to the highest international standards for conservation, access, and wider public benefits. As Area Ranger you’ll lead the team in the day-to-day delivery of our land management and operations across Arlington, North Devon.
- Closing Date: 28/04/2024
- Location: North Devon, Arlington Court, Arlington, EX31 4LP
- Posted: 15/04/2024
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Location: Branscombe, Seaton, EX12 3DB
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £23,868 per annum
As a Ranger, you’re the heart and soul of the National Trust in the landscapes we protect. You’re a champion of nature conservation and the great outdoors, and you’ll play a crucial role in keeping the nation’s beloved countryside and coast in good shape, for wildlife and for people.
- Closing Date: 28/04/2024
- Location: Branscombe, Seaton, EX12 3DB
- Posted: 15/04/2024
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Location: Stowe Barton, Kilkhampton, Bude, Cornwall, EX23 9JW
Contract Type: Permanent/Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Salary: £30,966 per annum
Are you a dynamic and experienced countryside professional with a passion and knowledge of nature, it’s conservation and the outdoors? Do you want to make a difference for a stunning stretch of the North Cornwall coast and its people? We are offering a rare and outstanding opportunity to lead on the delivery of our vision for a more nature rich, accessible and resilient coast.
- Closing Date: 28/04/2024
- Location: Stowe Barton, Kilkhampton, Bude, Cornwall, EX23 9JW
- Posted: 15/04/2024
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News and In-Depth Features
- Warm and wet year brings influx of migrants with mixed fortunes for resident species
- National Trust outlines fresh ambition in landmark speech by Director General
- National Trust calls on Government to back natural climate solutions, as charity ramps up efforts to tackle the ‘greatest threat to its places'
- National Trust response to the new Environment Bill
- Beavers return to Holnicote
- National Trust set to fund ‘biggest ever conservation spend’ of £3m a week in its 125th year
- Puffin numbers stable despite last summer’s wash-out as sufficient pufflings successfully hatch on Farne Islands
- National Trust launches year of action to tackle ‘nature deficiency’
- Plea to clean our seas as National Trust reveals strangest items to wash up on its shores
- UK’s first ‘super’ National Nature Reserve created on Purbeck Heaths
- Nationwide nature diary to capture first day of spring
- National Trust launches #BlossomWatch to emulate Japan’s Hanami
- National Trust acquires vital new stretch of coastal land to help create a new home for nature
- Nature diary entries tell story of extraordinary spring under lockdown
- Wildlife returns to Marsden Moor a year on from devastating fire, but threats persist
- Endangered bee gets a foothold in Somerset
- National Trust leader calls for urgent support for nature and wildlife sectors and a ‘green, not grey’ recovery
- Bumper year for apple blossom after ‘sunniest April on record’
- ‘Emboldened wildlife’ reported by National Trust during human lockdown
- Puffins return to breed on the Farne Islands in strong numbers
- Nature-friendly farming methods allow biodiversity to flourish at Wimpole
- Dramatic rise in barbecues and litter as wildfire risk continues
- National Trust reacts to Chancellor's mini budget on 8 July 2020
- National Trust sites prove successful breeding grounds for peregrine falcons
- National Trust announces spending cuts and redundancies in face of coronavirus losses
- National Trust responds to Government proposals for planning reforms
- Rarest butterfly boost: largest project to ‘bring back the blues’ hailed a success
- Best breeding season in decades for marsh harriers at National Trust’s Wicken Fen
- National Trust responds to Government proposals to underpin environmental commitments with legally binding targets
- Wildlife in Lockdown
- ‘High hopes’ for Arctic terns dashed as lockdown and extreme weather hampers conservation work
- Plea to help protect red squirrels as National Trust warns discarded litter could lead to squirrel pox outbreak
- National Trust suffers worst year on record for ash dieback due to weather and lockdown
- National Trust reduces compulsory job losses following consultation and vows to ‘grow back stronger’ after coronavirus crisis
- National Trust's reaction to the Agricultural Bill
- Comment from National Trust in response to Government's Ten Point Plan for Green Industrial Revolution for 250,000 jobs
- Charity attempts largest transplant of ancient and rare lichen in efforts to protect its future
- First beaver dam appears on Exmoor after 400 years
- Nature reserve sees best breeding season for rare little terns for 25 years
- 2020 Climate change extremes result in mixed fortunes for wildlife
- Training the countryside guardians of tomorrow as apprenticeship donations top £2m
- National Trust and partners signal hope and healing with blossoming ambitions around the UK
- Britons report ‘massive boost’ in nature connection since pandemic started, as #BlossomWatch gets underway
- National Trust re-introduces beavers to South East England site after Somerset success
- National Trust’s plans for 20 million ‘right trees in right places’ take root
- National Trust sheepdog finds his sea legs for commute to nature reserve
- National Trust launches ‘grow-along’ to help home gardeners grow their own plastic-free kitchen sponges
- ‘Four hundred lungs breathing one fresh start’: crowd-sourced poem heralds arrival of longed-for spring
- Work begins to fix footpaths on England’s highest mountain
- New guide shows the pathways to a stronger connection with nature
- National Trust maps out climate threat to coast, countryside and historic places
- New partnership between the University of Exeter and the National Trust to help protect the natural world
- Blaze of purple in Cornwall shows G7 greener future for UK farming
- Historic painting helps inspire 50 year vision for carbon and nature rich landscape at Devon Estate
- Britons 'vote with their feet' for summer of simple pleasures
- Peatland plateau turned into ‘giant sponge’ with 3,500 pools to absorb carbon
- New research set to unlock nature mysteries and tackle biodiversity crisis
- Two decades on, Fix the Fells work is needed more than ever, says National Trust
- National Trust ‘shores up’ to protect vital saltmarsh habitat
- Working with and for nature: creating new habitat at Cotehele quay
- Britons turning into a nation of ‘leaf peepers’ according to new National Trust research as experts predict a ‘good’ season for autumn colour
- National Trust ‘shines a light’ on the cultural landscape to get the right trees in the right places
- Nation’s largest landowners join government in unprecedented summit to tackle climate crisis
- A snapshot of our impact on the natural world to help shape a sustainable future
- First pup born at England’s largest grey seal colony on Blakeney Point
- Thermal imagery used for first time to help count seal pups on the National Trust’s Farne Islands
- Planting trees at the right time of year – the time is now, says National Trust
- Birds, bees, and butterflies suffer as Brexit farming promises broken today
- National Trust warns of “catastrophic” impact of tree and plant disease
- Horticulture careers with the National Trust: 500 years of garden history, a lifetime of opportunities
- National Trust announces plans for first green corridor to link historic city centre to surrounding countryside
- Successes for the new suite of Countryside Apprenticeships within the National Trust
- ‘Tobacco cliffs’ at UK beauty spot to be turned into refuge for rare wildlife
- UK biodiversity renewal project to revive nature and communities receives £10 million investment
- National Trust announces plans for The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee tree planting
- National Trust takes aim at net zero target with largest tree planting project to date at Wimpole
- National Trust announces plans for ambitious urban sky park for Manchester
- Lifeline for endangered crayfish as National Trust creates first ‘Ark’ site
- A vision in violet: Brownsea Island to restore prehistoric heathlands
- National Trust vows to ‘bring back the blossom’ as new research reveals massive drop in orchards since 1900s
- Bird’s-eye view of Belton’s heronry reveals surprising numbers
- Scotney Castle calls in the cavalry to help care for woodlands
- What makes a countryside job application stand out from the crowd at the National Trust?
- Critical year for determining how puffins are doing on the Farne Islands as National Trust rangers start this year’s count
- Sissinghurst Castle Garden launches prestigious new horticulture scholarship – the National Trust’s first – to cultivate Head Gardeners of the future
- Northern stronghold’ for rare hazel dormice created in Lancashire
- Conservation Charities & Agencies combine forces to tackle the impact of climate change on the UK’s heritage
- Farne Islands to close to visitors due to impact of Avian Influenza on internationally important seabird colonies
- ‘The answers are at our fingertips’: Charities call on MPs for urgent scaling up of climate solutions
- National Trust teams up with Severn Trent to help nature and benefit more people at reservoir sites in Derbyshire
- National Trust calls on football fans to name new beaver kits, following England’s historic victory
- Landscapes and historic gardens feel the heat as National Trust calls for greater action on climate change
- National Trust records most successful year for Hen Harrier breeding in the Peak District for over a decade
- Kinder Scout National Nature Reserve in Peak District extended in size to continue important research into tackling climate change
- Bumper year for breeding wading birds at coastal site in Suffolk
- National Trust warns ‘typical’ British autumn spectacular could be at risk in future due to climate extremes
- Majority of UK believe nature is in crisis and urgently needs help as charities invite public to join biggest ever conversation about nature
- National Trust leads on UK’s first major restoration project to reconnect river to its original floodplain
- First pup born at England’s largest grey seal colony on Blakeney Point
- North Devon grassland ‘savannah’ to become largest to be created in the UK