The Dunnet Community Forest volunteers are actively involved with looking after the forest at all levels.

Here are some of the ways we do this:

• Our main volunteering groups meet on Thursday and Sunday mornings each week. Everyone is welcome. The age range of our volunteers goes from early teens to early eighties. The work they do includes planting and care of saplings, thinning out and pruning growing stands of trees, mending bridges and paths and removing invasive species of plants.
• Our volunteers also carry out much of the work of harvesting timber for our wood fuel business. This includes felling trees, cutting them into logs, chipping branches and splitting the logs for sale as firewood.
• Other community groups along to help us out. Regular visitors lending a helping hand are Branching Out, Species on the Edge, RSPB and Dounreay Apprentices.

Quite simply, without the volunteers who work tirelessly at all these tasks, the forest would not be the lovely and loved place it is.

If you are interested in learning more about volunteering please contact our Forest Development Officer Garance at dev@dunnetforest.org (please note she works part time)

Since October 2021 we have employed a part time Forest Development Officer, Garance Warburton, thanks to funding from Stroupster Wind Farm and the Beatrice Partnership Fund.