Volunteer With Us

Are you searching for an opportunity to connect with your community, while also getting involved in local environmental initiatives? If so, you are in the right place. Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook is seeking volunteers to support our education, conservation, and regeneration projects in the Kimberley and Cranbrook communities!


How to Apply

Step 1: Please check out our volunteer groups below to learn what kind of tasks you might like to be involved with
Step 2: Complete the form through the “Volunteer with us!” button
Step 3: Wait to hear back from us for the next steps

Volunteer with us!


Volunteer Group Types

Local Food Volunteer Group
Our branch operates four local food projects which are Apple Capture, Backyard Farmers, Kimberley Community Garden, and the Kimberley Farmers’ Market.

As a volunteer in this group, depending on your interests and experience, your responsibilities may include:

  • Brainstorming ideas to support or add to current projects
  • Developing plans to implement new ideas
  • Planning events around current issues in our area to raise awareness
  • Putting up/taking down posters
  • Assisting with general garden maintenance such as weeding, watering, and harvesting
  • Building and maintaining several backyard gardens in Kimberley
  • Moving heavy equipment, picking apples, and maintaining equipment
  • Assisting with the Kimberley Farmers’ Market

Current opportunities:

  1. Kimberley Community Garden
  2. Backyard Farmers
  3. Kimberley Farmers’ Market


Sustainability Volunteer Group
Our Sustainability Volunteer Group takes on opportunities that make a big difference. These may be one-time events or as simple as making repurposed soap.

Current opportunities:

  1. Outreach

 

Board Member Volunteer Group
Our board members are diverse and passionate serving one-year terms or staying active for years. Elections take place at our Annual General Meeting for new and returning board members.

 

Parks Volunteer Group
Our branch is responsible for maintaining and enhancing two parks: the Marysville Eco Park and Cranbrook’s Spooner Park. We believe that providing communities with accessible green space is critical to mental and emotional well-being. Inner city parks are critical to the health of all local residents, which includes not only humans, but local flora and fauna. 

Volunteers in this group will be supporting the Branch Manager and the Community Coordinator. Responsibilities may include, depending on your interests and experience:

  • Participating in work parties including tree, shrub, and seed planting; pruning; weeding; and working with various tools and equipment
  • Brainstorming ideas to support or add to current or future parks projects
  • Developing plans to implement new parks initiatives
  • Engaging in parks-related discussions around issues such as park multi-user conflict, private land development on community trails, and more
  • Assisting in the design, construction, installation, and maintenance of parks infrastructure such as picnic tables

Current opportunities:

  1. Marysville Eco Park
  2. Spooner Park

Kimberley Cranbrook News

Make a difference in your community and let your name stand to be elected to our Board of Directors. As a volunteer board member, you become part of our team that is committed to evolving the organization through active visioning sessions and decision-making.Read More 
Are you a youth who’s curious about environmental sustainability, food security, and community building? If you said “YES!” and are between the ages of 16 and 30, the Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook Branch has a summer job just for you! Read More 
With amazement, another year has come and gone but what’s even more amazing is the work we have achieved — with your help of course! Take a moment with us, and reflect on just how much our communities come together to support each other and our environment. Read More 
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Upcoming Kimberley Cranbrook events

Co-Community Cleanup 2024

Saturday, April 20, 2024

This all-ages event is a fantastic opportunity to get outdoors, team up with family and friends, and do your part to give Cranbrook and Kimberley a spring clean.

Forest and Nature School: Spring 2024 Programs

April 5 - June 17, 2024

Using play-based, child-led, emergent curriculum, young explorers are offered time and space to build, play, and engage with one another. With regular and repeated access to nature across every season the children become the magic themselves, showing us what an amazing teacher nature is herself.

Camp Odyssey 2024

July 8 - August 23, 2024

Our incredibly popular Camp Odyssey will be back in the summer of 2024! Camp Odyssey offers weeklong day camps and single-day camps throughout July and August in Kimberley and Cranbrook. This is a great opportunity to have your children outside, in a safe, structured, and fun environment.

Kimberley Farmers' Market 2024

June 20 - September 19, 2024

The Kimberley Farmers' Market will be serving up fresh produce from local farmers, crafts from local artisans, live music, and delicious food for you to enjoy each Thursday throughout the summer!

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Join The Team

Want to protect wildlife, clean water and wild spaces? Volunteer with us! Wildsight volunteers are a very special group of people who give generously of their time to stuff envelopes, attend rallies, help run events, put up posters, keep tabs on forestry practices in their communities and participate in citizen science initiatives.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Branch Information

Contact

97 Wallinger Ave
Kimberley, BC V1A 1Y6

Office Hours: Tuesday to Thursday, 9:00 am to 2:30 pm (by appointment only)
Phone: 250-427-2535

kimcran@wildsight.ca