Birmingham Volunteering Day - Canal and River Trust – 1st October
Sign up to volunteer with the Canal and River Trust in Birmingham, to help revive the towpaths and make a real difference for everyone who enjoys the canals!
You can join as a volunteer or step up as a volunteer lead. Volunteer leads will receive full training prior to the day.
📍 Location: Central Birmingham (precise location to be confirmed)
📅 Time and date: 9:30am on 1st October 2025
🎽 What to wear: Comfortable clothes that are appropriate for the weather and closed toe shoes!
Typical Plan
9:30 am – 10:00 am Arrival to site and assigned PPE. Followed by the Pre-work Briefing and Health and Safety talk.
10:00 am – 12:30 pm Walk to the location of the days works. Then beginning the task.
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch break. Not every site will be in easy walk to shops so everyone should bring their own refreshments with them.
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Continuation of assigned tasks.
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Pack up and clean-up of site before the end of the session.
3:00 pm The exact time for the end of the session is flexible due to many factors such as weather, completing the task earlier than expect etc. But all sessions will finish by 3:00 pm at the latest.
Other Upcoming Volunteering Days
Day Date
Tuesday 28-Oct-25
Monday 3-Nov-25
Friday 21-Nov-25
Monday 12-Jan-26
Tuesday 27-Jan-26
To sign up, please email mattie.wormald@dft.gov.uk and gokcen.tayfun@businessandtrade.gov.uk.
This is great - thank you. I've nudged my West Midlands HMCTS colleagues, I think they are part of CSCEN (well I plug it enough so I hope so! haha)