Work experience students in July 2024 (credit: Alex Day)
Work experience
Join colleagues from across the Trust for a supportive and eye-opening deep dive into the many areas of our conservation work. You could try your hand at managing a fen to support orchids, discover how to protect beach-nesting birds, or design nature-connection activities with our learning team, along with many more opportunities to get hands-on with our work.
Our work experience will take place from Monday 5 July to Friday 9 July.
Apply for our work experience week on 5 to 9 July 2027
Deadline for applications is Monday 4 January 2027.
How the application works
In your answers, we’re looking for evidence that you have a passion and enthusiasm for protecting nature and helping people to connect with it - don't worry if you don't have experience of these yet, we just want to see your interest.
We want to know you’re motivated to turn up on time, approach activities with willingness and an open-mind, and to work productively with other students. We particularly welcome applications for people who are underrepresented in the sector, including those who experience disability, people from minority ethnic backgrounds and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
Please apply by completing the form below.
Work Experience application form
How the week works
Each day we’ll set off around 9:30am from Bewick House, 22 Thorpe Road, Norwich, Norfolk. We’ll travel via minibus to our nature reserves, visitor centres, county wildlife sites or community projects. We provide all the tools you need, just bring lunch, water, comfortable shoes and clothes to help you get stuck in. We’ll return at 5pm.
A full itinerary, including a parental consent form, will be emailed to you closer to the time if your application is successful. If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact youthaction@norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk
Work experience students 2026
Work experience 2022 students find diving beetles at Hickling Broad (credit: NWT)
Work experience 2022 students creating woodland art (credit: NWT)
Work experience 2022 students looking for butterflies (credit: NWT)
Work experience 2022 students inspecting a dyke-dipping catch (credit: NWT)
Work experience 2023 students dyke-dipping at Hickling Broad (credit: NWT)
Work experience 2023 students ID'ing trees at Hickling (credit: NWT)
I had a really great time and wanted to thank you and Alan, and everyone else involved. Although I don't think it's a sector I'll be pursuing (at least for now) I found everything incredibly interesting and valuable and I intend to get involved with conservation and wildlife wherever I end up in whatever ways I can.
I found discussing difficulties and challenges within the sector with yourself and James especially interesting. The visit to Holme was also a highlight. All in all I just wanted to say thank you to you and everyone else involved and how grateful I am for the week.
Thanks for a great week last week. I really enjoyed it and was amazed by the incredible knowledge that you and your colleagues had. It was great to see all of the reserves and experience what it’s like working on them. Send my thanks to everyone involved.
We went to a lot of different nature reserves. They were all quite unique, which I liked since no one day was the same. I also liked seeing why we were doing the work that we were doing. When we were clearing the bracken and ragwort, we got to see what we were trying to achieve: creating new habitats for ground-nesting birds.
Work Experience students at Holme litter picking and observing beach-nesting birds.
A week in the wild: work experience with Norfolk Wildlife Trust
Hear from our 2026 work experience students about what they loved and their plans for the future.