Thursday 10 September 2009

Volunteers Wanted


Here at Dartmoor we are looking for some volunteers to help on the animal department. We are looking for people who are reliable, physically fit and able to be trusted to work on their own when needed. We need people who can work 8am - 5pm, it doesn't matter how many days a week you can work as long as it's a set day each week. The more days the better for us as it takes a while to train people up.


Duties will include:


  • Helping the keeping staff with their rounds such as feeding and cleaning the animals

  • Preparing feeds

  • Public talks

  • General tidying of the park

  • Helping the education department

At the present time we have one volunteer gardener, Mike, who comes in and works his way around the park tidying the flower beds, raking leaves and doing any gardening work he feels needs doing. We are very grateful to him for giving up his time and helping us, as the keepers are kept very busy with the animals and don't always have enough time to do these jobs. If anyone would like to help Mike we are sure he would welcome it as it's quite a big job he has to do! The days and hours are not as important as on the animal section so any free time people have to pop in would be great.


Please contact the zoo if you are interested in volunteering or email will.walker@dartmoorzoo.co.uk

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