Environmental Volunteering
The Helping Hands Bushcarers Group are residents, community volunteers and/or people with disabilities who work regularly with the Community Landcare Officer on the Shire of Bridgetown-Greenbushes Bushland Reserves.
In 2025-26 the Helping Hands volunteers contributed 538 hours of their time valued at approx. $27,293 during 19 Helping Hands Bushcare events and other related activities. Work was carried out in the following reserves:
- Layman St Reserve
- Geegeelup Brook
- Abbotts Reserve
- Fire Station Reserve
- Dorothy Scott Bushland
- Greenbushes Pool
- Somme Creek Parklands
- Maslin Reserve
Volunteer activities over the past year have included:
- Monitoring and control of environmental weeds
- General and historic rubbish removal
- Glass collection and removal
- Site preparation works
- Revegetation planting
- Walk trail maintenance
- Native seed collection and extraction
- Seedling watering
- Shot-hole Borer education
- Attempted removal of goldfish from Somme Creek
- Community education
- Blackwood Junior Landcarer events
If you are interested in becoming a Helping Hands volunteer, register your details, and find out more on the Blackwood Environmental Society webpage: https://blackwoodenvironmentsociety.org.au/volunteer-registration
