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A group of young people on work experience standing together at the top of a tower on a sunny day, with the group all smiling at the camera

Work experience students in July 2024 (credit: Alex Day)

Work experience

Spend your work experience week at Norfolk Wildlife Trust, 7-11th or 14-18th July 2025

Are you aged 11 - 17 and interested in learning more about a career in conservation?  If yes, then spending a week with us doing work experience could be just the thing for you! You'll get to visit a selection of our fantastic nature reserves and learn more about our work to protect wildlife.

Join us for a work experience week on either 7 to 11 July or 14 to 18 July. Please let us know which week you’d like to attend via the application form (unfortunately we can’t offer work experience outside of these dates). Places are limited so please get your application in as soon as possible.

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Two teenagers stand in a wooded area looking for art materials

Work experience 2022 students creating woodland art (credit: NWT)

A group of teenagers standing by some bushes on a sunny day looking for butterflies

Work experience 2022 students looking for butterflies (credit: NWT)

Two teenagers lean over a tray filled with water and an ID sheet next to a broad

Work experience 2022 students inspecting a dyke-dipping catch (credit: NWT)

A group of teenagers lean over a boardwalk to look into a broad, with trays of water and ID sheets around them

Work experience 2022 students dyke-dipping at Hickling Broad (credit: NWT)

Two teenagers sit by a broad, with a tray of water and ID sheet between them

Work experience 2022 students dyke-dipping at Hickling Broad (credit: NWT)

Two people's hands holding out black diving beetles

Work experience 2022 students find diving beetles at Hickling Broad (credit: NWT)

A man wearing a hat gives a talk to a group of teenagers gathered around him

Work experience 2022 students on a guided walk at Cley Marshes (credit: NWT)

A group of teenagers standing in a line and smiling at the camera at a visitor centre

Work experience 2022 students posing at Cley Visitor Centre (credit: NWT)

Two teenagers lean over a tray filled with water and an ID sheet next to a broad on a sunny day

Work experience 2023 students dyke-dipping at Hickling Broad (credit: NWT)

A group of teenagers raking fen in a green field

Work experience 2023 students raking fen at Upton (credit: NWT)

A group of teenagers standing in a line and smiling at the camera in front of a recently planted flower bed by a block of flats

Work experience 2023 students creating flower beds in Mile Cross (credit: NWT)

A group of teenagers rake up reed in a green field

Work experience 2023 students raking reed at Trinity Broad (credit: NWT)

Two teenagers lean over a tray filled with water and an ID sheet next to a broad

Work experience 2023 students dyke-dipping at Hickling Broad (credit: NWT)

A teenager wearing a grey hoodie rakes grass in front of a green fence

Work experience 2023 students raking grass at Edmund Bacon Court (credit: NWT)

Two students walking around trees, with one blindfolded and touching the trunk

Work experience 2023 students ID'ing trees at Hickling (credit: NWT)

Just a note to say thank you so much for Robin's amazing work experience week - he had a ball! Off the back of the week he is hoping to change is college course to do Environmental Conservation and continue volunteering, testament to a brilliant week!

I just wanted to express my gratitude for giving Max the opportunity to attend work experience within your organisation. He truly did enjoy every minute and learnt so much . Max hopes to study geography at degree level , so this experience has helped him to confirm this.

Thank you so much for giving my son Tom the experience of volunteering with the NWT. He had a great time and learned so much, which he has been sharing with me as we have been going out and about on the NWT sites over the Summer. It has confirmed his interest to study Geography with Sustainable Development at University.
A group of young people stand behind a fence smiling on a cloudy day

Wilder Wardens 2023 (credit: NWT)

Wilder Wardens

If you are aged 11 - 17 and interested in getting involved in regular, practical conservation sessions on one of our reserves, please see our Wilder Wardens page.

Find out more about Wilder Wardens