Volunteer Opportunities

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To volunteer for any of these efforts, please email Joan Merrick.

Volunteer opportunities that are mostly indoors

• Pick up mail from our PO box weekly
• Take donations to the bank biweekly
• Assist in Excel spreadsheet and Google doc production
• Oversee encroachments and help Property Management bring them to resolution
• Create trail maps
• Support BLT social media efforts (Facebook, YouTube, blog posts)
• Contribute writing, photos or artwork for our newsletter and other communications
• Fundraise
• Assist with grant writing
• Scan and electronically archive documents
• Archive paper documents at Land Trust house
• Maintain an online BLT calendar
• Organize events and parties
• Set up chairs/refreshments at lectures and events
• Join and/or chair the Membership committee
• Join the Finance committee
• Attend Town commission meetings and report back to the relevant BLT committees
• Provide training to board members in your specialized content area
• Liaison with and supervise youth activities (e.g., Branford High School and Scouts)
• Take photos of reported tree and branch blow-downs
• Assist with, or supervise, routine maintenance of Land Trust House
• Public relations for the LT House renovations project
• Research, collect and organize materials related to the history of the LT house
• Work with BCTV to make our programming available on local TV
• Correct Town maps of our properties
• Present in our winter speaker series

Volunteer opportunities that are mostly outdoors

• Help lead walks
• Assist with leadership in monthly Saturday work parties
• Work with youth from the Peabody Evolutions program
• Help at the annual children’s environmental day camp
• Spend time at the BLT table during the Branford Festival in June
• Help to set up and break down the tent and displays at the Branford Festival
• Participate in the twice-weekly trail crew
• Boundary marking
• Help with signage and parking at walks and events
• Maintain/replace trail blazes
• Refurbish our BLT property signs
• Improve trail head signage and post property names, where applicable
• Improve access ways for the tractors to cut our open space fields
• Acquire and plant native shrubs/sew native plant seeds on freshly cut fields
• Maintain our wooden boardwalks
• Pick up litter at trail heads and along popular trails