Welcome
Butterfly Conservation chooses to be a leader in the fight for our natural world.
Our strategic goals describe how we will unite and connect nature to people. Inspiring and enabling more people to enjoy the natural world is at the heart of our work. To do that we must broaden our reach to ensure that everyone has access to and can enjoy the wonders of butterflies and moths.
Developing our approach to diversity and inclusion is not just simply the right thing to do, it also drives improvements in quality, innovation and performance and is therefore essential to help us achieve our aims for butterflies and moths.
We are building a library of resources to support this vision and invite our volunteers to access the following resources which have been selected as tools to help us increase our reach. You can work your way through the content in your own time. Text only versions of content are provided as an alternative to video, unless captions are available.
Where available, please complete the Training Recap to self-assess your learning. This lets us know that you’re ready to get started as a volunteer.
Recruiting Volunteers
Please complete all sections:
- Volunteer Recruitment
- Video (32 minutes)
- Text version
- Training Recap
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Training
We offer an introduction to equality diversity and inclusion, providing a basic knowledge of the legal framework, key terms and appropriate language. This will be developed over time, with additional resources becoming available over the course of 2022.
To get started, please spend up to 30 minutes completing the following tasks:
- Read Butterfly Conservation's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement of Intent.
- Find out what the nine protected characteristics are, as identified in the Equality Act 2010
- Write down a few words or a sentence to describe what you think each of these terms means: equality; diversity; inclusion.
- Watch this three minute video: an introduction to unconscious bias.
You will need the following resources to access this training:
- Access to internet and YouTube.
- Ability to play video and sound on a computer.
- A pen and paper.
Key Contacts
Your Key Contact for volunteer recruitment is Kate Barrett (Senior Volunteer Development Officer). You can contact her by emailing @email or by phone (07483 039325).
Please contact Kate Hardy (Head of People and Culture) with any general questions about our equality, diversity and inclusion work. You can contact Kate by emailing @email or by phone (07734 849138).
Further Reading
You can find your nearest volunteering centre on the NCVO website (England), Volunteer Scotland, Gwirfoddoli Cymru / Volunteering Wales or Volunteer Now (Northern Ireland).