The Ayrshire Rivers Trust is made up of a team of dedicated Ayrshire based biologists, ecologists and environmental managers working to improve our rivers and lochs. What you might be doing as a volunteer? - There may be availability to take part in electrofishing surveys during summer months – contact the Trust for more information. - Tree planting and native seed collection. - Assisting with our tree nursery. - Green engineering – we routinely undertake green engineering installations and projects. What are the benefits to volunteer with ART? - It adds to your education from school to postgraduate - It promotes health and wellbeing - It increases social conscience - It makes you feel part of a community - It promotes inclusion - It encourages environmental benefit

The Ayrshire Rivers Trust is made up of a team of dedicated Ayrshire based biologists, ecologists and environmental managers working to improve our rivers and lochs. This opportunity: Ayrshire Rivers Trust are going to be planting around 2,000 trees anytime from mid January until the end of February and is weather dependent. It is for a Nature Scot project on the Water of Girvan where it runs between Crosshill and Dailly and builds upon stabilisation work completed by Ayrshire Rivers Trust in 2016/17 that has dramatically reduced land loss and sediment inputs in to the middle reaches of the Water of Girvan. This current project is to create riparian corridor buffer zones using a variety of green ecological nature-based methods in conjunction with fencing to manage livestock overgrazing. What are the benefits to volunteer with ART? - It adds to your education from school to postgraduate - It promotes health and wellbeing - It increases social conscience - It makes you feel part of a community - It promotes inclusion - It encourages environmental benefit