Work experience placements at Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

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Are you interested in gaining work experience with us?

Are you interested in gaining work experience with us?

If you are interested in pursuing work experience with us as part of a requirement of your course at school, college, or university, we would like to know if we can support you.

We would like to offer work experience across all our teams. However, as we are a medium-sized organisation, and we would like to support as many people to get experience within our sector as possible, we often have a limited capacity with the amount of work experience placements we can offer.

Year 10 - 13 work experience week

We will be offering three programmes for the week of 23rd June – 25th June 2025. We encourage you to consider your location when expressing an interest in these programmes as you will be expected to accommodate your travel to and from your placement.

  • Marketing, Communities and People Engagement

Locations - Middleton, Derby City, Ashbourne

  • Planning, Data and Practical Land Management

Locations- Middleton, Northeast Derbyshire, Trent Valley, Ilkeston, Derwent Valley, Peak District, Erewash Valley

  • Support Services and Practical Management

Locations- Middleton, Northeast Derbyshire, Trent Valley, Ilkeston, Derwent Valley, Peak District, Erewash Valley

There are limited places for the above work experience programmes. We have a high volume of requests for our work experience placements, and we regret we are unable to accept more than 6. We always recommend that you apply to more than one organisation to ensure you have a backup plan.

If you would like to apply for these opportunities please do so using the web form below. This form will close on the 3rd of March 2025. The Trust will be in contact regarding your request after this date.

Open form

Requests for more than 1 week experience

If you are requiring a placement of more than 1 week please sign up via the form below to be contacted about upcoming opportunities for a prolonged work placement period through volunteering.

Open Form

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Please view our volunteering opportunities which are open for applications.

Volunteer Opportunities

Undergraduate and postgraduate study support

Follow the link below to find out more about our undergraduate and postgraduate study support. 

Student Study Support

Trainee Opportunities

When they are available our trainee opportunities can be found on our jobs page below 

Trainee Opportunities

Interested in finding out more about careers in the sector? Check out these web pages…