Practical Work Parties
Enjoy being outside? Want to give a little back to the National Park landscape? Have some spare time on your hands? Then why not join one of our Warden’s Work Parties. Various work, various locations and never boring!
If you are interested in any of the warden’s projects below, please get in touch and we would be happy to hear from you. For more information or to register as a Brecon Beacons National Park Authority volunteer, please contact;
huw.price@breconbeacons.org
Opportunities currently on offer:
Black Mountains Volunteers
3rd Sunday of every month
Meet: Main Car Park,
High Street, Talgarth . 9.45am – 1pm
Eastern Area Work Parties - Every third Wednesday of every month, 9am – 4pm
Meet: BBNPA Depot, Ffrwdgrech Industrial Estate, Brecon,
Central/Western Area Work Parties - 1st and 2nd Wednesday of every month,
9am – 4pm
Meet: National Park Depot, Ffrwdgrech Industrial Estate, Brecon,
Craig-y-Nos Country Park - Weekdays
Various practical work in the grounds of Craig-y-Nos Country Park. Lots of hands needed for
a variety of projects! Please contact for more details.
Welcome Warden Scheme - Gwuan Hepste - Weekends and Bank Holidays only
Please contact huw.price@breconbeacons.org for more details.
* Please bring packed lunch, a drink and suitable clothing and footwear *
* Meeting points/times may be subject to change – please contact us for more information*
The Warden Service of the National Park Authority work with individual volunteers and also operate weekly work parties throughout the year and these are supervised by Wardens. Volunteers meet the Warden at a pre-arranged venue and share transport to the work site.
Typically a work party group will have a minimum size of 4 volunteers and a maximum of 12 volunteers. Larger groups might well be supervised by two Wardens.
Additional work parties for private groups can sometimes be arranged. This type of work is recognised as suitable service fulfilment by those working towards Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme awards.
The type of work our volunteers undertake includes:
- Public Rights of Way maintenance on footpaths and bridleways.
- Conservation tasks on National Park Authority owned sites: thinning and coppicing on woodland sites, grass cutting of amenity sites and acid grassland improvements on areas of common land.
- Training in the Health & Safety aspects of practical work parties will be provided by Wardens and sometimes, more specialised training such as hedge-laying or dry stone walling may be provided.
