This opportunity will allow you to work in the gardens doing various duties, including weeding, mulching, fertilizing, pruning, propagation, and plant documentation. As a Horticulture Volunteer, you will help Heritage maintain our beautiful public gardens enjoyed by all who visit.
Visitor Engagement Volunteer: Work with the public and our front line staff to provide a memorable, meaningful experience for our visitors! Visitor Engagement Volunteers help with: -Daily operations, such as greeting visitors as they arrive, helping with wayfinding, and recommending things to see and do around the gardens and galleries -Event assistance, helping with ticket-taking,…
Help interpret our collections both inside the galleries and outside in the gardens for school groups and visitors. Interpretive Volunteers help with: -Engaging students grades K-8 grade through hands-on interactive workshops that connect Museum collections and STEM learning in fun and exciting ways -Interpreting Heritage’s collections to community and groups by teaching with objects, giving…
You can make a difference by providing social support to clients, working with staff in our office, or providing rides to healthcare appointment on the Cape. Some volunteers work on a weekly basis; others work on specific events or serve on our “on-call” list for periodic projects. A few positions require special background or training.…
Monitor a local herring run by counting the fish as they climb to their freshwater spawning grounds. The commitment is small (as little as one-half hour each week). You will help provide much needed data on this once historically abundant, but now declining fish. The program runs from April to June.
Small groups are organized throughout the year to survey and mark HCT land boundaries. Help us monitor or maintain properties by visiting nearby sites to evaluate or address stewardship needs.
Volunteers are needed for regularly scheduled trailwork, invasive plant removal, and property clean-up. Grab your favorite loppers or borrow one of ours and join us! Individual projects are also available.
Help prep the facility for camp! Painting, yard work, and general cleaning is always needed in spring and then for shutdown in the fall. Great team building opportunity!
Camp volunteers help us carry out our mission on a daily basis but helping with much of the critical background work: help with food service/prep, facilities support, and more. Camp volunteers commit to a minimum of a 2-hour weekly shift.
Roll up your sleeves, and come join us in the fun! You can volunteer for a committee or a task or event. Everyone is welcome. You’ll meet new people, make new friends, and have some fun on Pleasant Bay! Areas of need include: event support, dock and boathouse maintenance, campus construction, boating and environmental program…