Nature recovery project in Devon
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About the project
Nature recovery project in Devon
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Ambios is a nature recovery training organisation that supports people to achieve their goals for nature while developing skills, confidence, and career pathways. We manage a farm for nature, using livestock and people to restore habitats and improve environmental health. Our work extends across the local river catchment, supporting landscape-scale nature recovery. We deliver practical, hands-on conservation activities including tree planting, bird box construction, boardwalk creation, and fencing to protect sensitive habitats. Alongside this, we work closely with our community, particularly supporting adults with learning difficulties to access the farm, take part in meaningful outdoor work, and build independence. Volunteers are attracted to Ambios by the opportunity to make a tangible difference to nature, gain practical conservation experience, work outdoors in a supportive environment, and be part of an inclusive, community-focused organisation that values people as much as the land.
💼 What the programme involves
Practical nature recovery tasks. In the summer volunteers would help create wetlands by installing leaky dams, count butterflies and other invertebrates to aid our survey work, run events with and for our community, especially community feasts and pizza nights, work with our farm and wellbeing animals including sheep, cows, ponies, guinea pigs, hens and ducks, and help out in our organic vegetable garden.
We would expect the volunteers to stay with us for the duration of the project, and work up to 5 hours/day. This would leave them some time in the afternoon to visit our local, wonderful town and the beautiful area. They would not work on the weekend.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Each volunteer would live in their own private bedroom, but would share life with each other in a comfortable living room/kitchen/dining room.
Each volunteer would stay in a single room. Group leaders could share a yurt.
🍲 Food
We would provide all meals for the volunteers. They would learn to help prepare the meals and with washing up and cleaning duties in the shared spaces.
📍 About the location
Totnes, Devon, UK
⚠️ Requirements
We would ideally require volunteers that love nature, enjoy being social and have deep empathy towards each other and for people with less advantage.
We would like to meet the group leaders and like to arrange a zoom call with them should they choose to join us.
🤝 Meeting point
Totnes train station
ℹ️ Additional information
Volunteer should need to have a basic understanding of English
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📅 Available sessions
group nature recovery
21/07/2026 at 00:00 → 01/08/2026 at 00:00
group nature recovery
10/08/2026 at 00:00 → 22/08/2026 at 00:00
group nature recovery
01/06/2026 at 00:00 → 31/12/2028 at 00:00
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
872.00 GBP ≈ 1,043 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Totnes, UK
GREAT BRITAIN
🌍 Location info
Local currency
United Kingdom Pound (GBP / £)
Exchange rate
1 GBP = 1.195652 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
Timezone
British Summer Time
Local time: 21:08 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
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