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Boyne Rivers Trust (BRT) is an environmental charity to the conservation and protection of the Boyne River catchment. The vision of the Trust is for a ​‘Thriving River Catchment, valued and protected by its communities’. The aim of the trust is to protect, enhance and restore the water bodies of the Boyne catchment through community-led projects and activities. Job Summary The Farm Advisor will work with farmers, across the Boyne catchment, to identify potential changes in agricultural and land management practices, intended to bring about improved water quality and freshwater habitats at a catchment-scale, whilst also benefiting farm businesses. The post-holder will undertake one-to-one farm visits, working with landowners to identify ways to reduce the risk and impact of diffuse and point-source water pollution from agriculture. This will be done through non-regulatory farmyard and field assessments to identify possible water protection measures and the production of bespoke farm water management plans. The Farm Advisor will also aim to raise awareness, improve understanding and acceptance amongst farmers and land managers of diffuse and point-source pollution from agriculture and its impact on water quality and the wider water environment. Engagement with farmers in the Boyne catchment will seek to create, through a voluntary approach, a sense of ownership and achievement within the farming community in relation to improving water quality and water dependent species and habitats in the catchments across the Boyne Rivers Trust’s operational area. This is an opportunity to be at the heart of a small, growing, and enthusiastic team. This new role is essential to the growth and development of the Trust to make a real difference to the biodiversity, habitats and ecosystems of the Boyne Catchment. Please see the attached job description for a full breakdown of the responsibilities and person specification. Application Process Please send a CV, brief email, and completed Application Form to: info@boyneriverstrust.ieClosing Date: 5pm, Tuesday 1^st of April 2025.

Wessex Rivers Trust (Wessex RT) is an environmental charity, dedicated to the protection and conservation of rivers and chalk streams in the Wessex area. Wessex RT is part of the Rivers Trust movement; the umbrella organisation helping to protect and enhance most of the UK’s rivers. The Trust acknowledges that educating and engaging with a wide and diverse audience is essential to sustaining long-term interest in our local rivers and chalk streams and empowering local communities to take ownership of these precious habitats. To deliver on this ambition, the Trust offers an exciting education programme to all areas of Wessex. Role purpose and summary Do you have a passion for the environment and education? Are you interested in helping Wessex Rivers Trust deliver river education sessions? Apply to be an Education Volunteer today!Wessex Rivers Trust is looking for a group of dedicated volunteers to support the Education and Engagement team deliver sessions to school groups, home education groups, youth groups (e.g. scouting and guiding) and at public events. The role will be mostly site-based working, either by a river or in-school, with occasional visits to our head office in Salisbury. Please see the attached job description below for more information and visit the Wessex Rivers Trust’s website to learn more about the Trust’s work. Apply To apply for this position please email us at recruitment@​wessexrt.​org.​uk letting us know in a few sentences why you’d like to volunteer with us. Please also include your CV (3 pages maximum). 

About the role We’re looking for a motivated and practical person to join our River & Habitats Team and play a key role in restoring rivers, creating wetlands, and supporting nature recovery across the River Thame catchment. This varied role combines fieldwork (25 – 50% of your time) and office-based work. You’ll support the design, delivery and monitoring of projects that improve river habitats, enhance fish passage, and deliver nature-based solutions that reduce flood risk, improve water quality, and help wildlife thrive. A core part of your role will be providing GIS technical support to projects and colleagues across the Trust. You’ll also work closely with landowners, community groups, volunteers and partners to make projects happen on the ground. About us The River Thame Conservation Trust (RTCT) is an environmental charity working to safeguard the River Thame, its catchment and wildlife for the benefit of people and nature. We deliver practical restoration projects, promote water and wildlife-friendly farming, enable public participation in conservation, and act as a voice for the river. We’re a small, collaborative team with a strong community network and close partnerships across the sector. As part of the wider Rivers Trust movement, you’ll have access to national training, shared resources and opportunities to develop your professional skills. What we’re looking for We’re seeking someone with: A relevant degree (e.g. environmental science, biology, hydrology, conservation, geography) or equivalent experienceWorking knowledge of GIS (QGIS or ArcGIS — training provided if needed)Strong communication skills and confidence engaging with landowners and partnersA flexible, pragmatic approach suited to a small, dynamic organisationA full driving licence and the legal right to work in the UK Desirable experience includes river and wetland habitat management, ecological surveying, citizen science, Biodiversity Net Gain, and spatial analysis in GIS. Benefits Flexible and hybrid working options27 days annual leave plus public holidaysPension & Life Assurance (9% employer, 6% employee)Professional development and training opportunities How to apply Please send the following to Jane Willis (jane@​riverthame.​org): A cover letter (max 2 pages) outlining your motivation and relevant experienceA CV (max 2 pages) Interviews: Tuesday 18^th November 2025 (in-person, Wheatley office)

Thames21 is an environmental charity that works across London and the Thames Basin to deliver high-impact, nature-based solutions to the climate and biodiversity crisis by restoring rivers, while also connecting communities to their local green-blue spaces and inspiring long-term stewardship of them. We are recruiting an enthusiastic and committed individual to fulfil the combined role of project manager for the Roding Rises project, and catchment partnership co-host for the Roding, Beam and Ingrebourne catchment partnership. The Roding Rises is an ambitious 3‑year project funded through The National Lottery Heritage Fund that aims to deliver the following key outcomes: Raise the value placed on the river Roding by the local community through a river connection programme of engagement events that will work with urban and rural communities throughout the Roding catchment.Raise protection of the river Roding through a citizen science action programme, giving communities and catchment partners the data and knowledge to advocate for the river, and through a masterplan for the lower Roding, which will influence and inform future development.Raise the quality of the habitat in and along the river through the delivery of a significant capital river restoration scheme and a catchment grants programme, so the river brings maximum benefits to both people and wildlife.Deliver a legacy for the river Roding by integrating the outputs of The Roding Rises with ambitions of the wider catchment partnership and using the project as a springboard for leveraging further catchment-scale restoration work. The Roding Rises Project Manager will work alongside a multidisciplinary Thames21 team to ensure each element of the project is delivered on time, within budget, and with maximum impact. Within the role of co-host of the Roding, Beam and Ingrebourne Catchment Partnership, this position will help develop and advance the namesake catchment’s action plan through building the partnership, facilitating knowledge exchange between various partners, and working across the partnership to develop and successfully fundraise for river & catchment improvement projects. Please see the attached job description for more details on the role, responsibilities, and person specification. Visit Thames21’s website to learn more about the work of the Trust. To apply To apply for this position, please email an up-to-date copy of your CV and a covering letter to recruitment@​thames21.​org.​uk with the reference PM1025 in the subject box of your email application. The closing date for applications is: 16^th November 2025 Interview dates: Week commencing 24^th November 2025 (subject to change) We appreciate the time you took to apply for this role, and we understand that it can be disconcerting when you don’t hear back from a position you have applied for. However, due to the high number of applications we expect to receive, we are unable to respond to or provide feedback on individual applications. Nevertheless, we want to manage expectations. Therefore, if you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion. Please advise in your application if you are happy for us to contact you for any future opportunities that may arise, should you not be successful in this position. No agencies, please.

Thames21 is an environmental charity that works across London and the Thames Basin to deliver high-impact, nature-based solutions to the climate and biodiversity crisis by restoring rivers, while also connecting communities to their local green-blue spaces and inspiring long-term stewardship of them. Purpose of the job To work with Thames21’s Head of Finance and The Roding Rises delivery team to oversee the administration of The Roding Rises, a three-year project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund that aims to kick-start the revitalisation of the River Roding. This position will work alongside Thames21’s Head of Finance and The Roding Rises Project Manager to ensure that every day finance functions for The Roding Rises project operate efficiently and accurately. To successfully deliver this job, the postholder will have a strong eye for detail and have experience in budget management/​bookkeeping to ensure funding claims and invoices are paid on time and Main Duties and ResponsibilitiesTrack project costs against projected budget to ensure budget vs actual expenditure is effectively managed, raising concerns early with Thames21’s head of finance and The Roding Rises project manager.Complete The National Lottery Heritage Fund claims process at agreed intervals to ensure an appropriate cash flow.Assist with relevant reporting tasks back to project funders.Work with the Thames21 Head of Finance and Thames21 Finance Officer to ensure all payments are completed in a timely manner in line with internal financial processes and any outstanding payments are managed in line with the approved funding agreement/​project proposal documentation.Support The Roding Rises project manager with the administration of the Roding Rises grants scheme.Support the development and integration of improved financial tracking and reporting processes across wider Thames21 Teams. Please see the attached job description for more details on the role, responsibilities, and person specification. Visit Thames21’s website to learn more about the work of the Trust. To apply To apply for this position, please email an up-to-date copy of your CV and a covering letter to recruitment@​thames21.​org.​uk with the reference RFO1025 in the subject box of your email application. The closing date for applications is: 16^th November 2025 Interview dates: Week commencing 24^th November 2025 (subject to change) We appreciate the time you took to apply for this role, and we understand that it can be disconcerting when you don’t hear back from a position you have applied for. However, due to the high number of applications we expect to receive, we are unable to respond to or provide feedback on individual applications. Nevertheless, we want to manage expectations. Therefore, if you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion. Please advise in your application if you are happy for us to contact you for any future opportunities that may arise, should you not be successful in this position. No agencies, please.

Thames21 is an environmental charity that works across London and the Thames Basin to deliver high-impact, nature-based solutions to the climate and biodiversity crisis by restoring rivers, while also connecting communities to their local green-blue spaces and inspiring long-term stewardship of them. Purpose of the job We are seeking a skilled engagement officer to deliver an innovative programme of community-led river engagement activities in and surrounding the River Roding as part of a project funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, ​‘The Roding Rises’. This role will engage with groups from the urban and rural reaches of the river Roding catchment to co-design activities that support the delivery of The Roding Rises activity plan and encourage participants along an engagement pathway from awareness to participation and independent action. This role offers the post holder the opportunity to make a difference in diverse areas of London, with varying challenges and a range of ambitions. The key skill for this role is being able to connect with and bring people together. The project relies on creating strong networks of grassroots organisations, community leaders and representatives from the public and private sectors, including councillors and politicians. The key value for this role is curiosity. Being interested in people, able to ask questions, listen, and encourage them to get involved in whatever way they are able, will help you succeed. You’ll thrive in this role if you can identify the strengths and assets of communities and individuals and create opportunities for them to flourish. By working together with local people in diverse communities beside waterways, you will establish a new and positive ongoing relationship between Londoners and their blue spaces. A typical day is likely to involve keeping on track with what’s happening across the Roding catchment, meeting with key partners, being alert to upcoming network meetings, or delivering community events or activities. You might be working from home, or out of our offices in Bow or Guildhall, or be out and about with a community group or local organisation, co-producing an engagement event. You might be posting on social media or updating the web page. You may be working on strategic, long-term plans to share the learnings from the project. You’ll be thinking both big and small on any given day! Please see the attached job description for more details on the role, responsibilities, and person specification. Visit Thames21’s website to learn more about the work of the Trust. To apply If you wish to apply for this position, please submit a CV and a covering letter detailing how and why your skills and experience are suited to this role, and please email your application marked EO1025 to recruitment@​thames21.​org.​uk Closing date is the 16^th November 2025 Interviews to be held week commencing 24^th November 2025 (subject to change). We appreciate the time you took to apply for this role, and we understand that it can be disconcerting when you don’t hear back from a position you have applied for. However, due to the high number of applications we expect to receive, we are unable to respond to or provide feedback on individual applications. Nevertheless, we want to manage expectations. Therefore, if you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

About Wessex Rivers Trust Wessex Rivers Trust (WRT) is part of the UK’s Rivers Trust movement — a network of over 60 charities working to protect and restore rivers nationwide. For more than 15 years, WRT has grown from a single part-time employee to a team of over 20 specialists, delivering science-led river restoration, community education, and catchment-scale conservation across Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Dorset.The Trust hosts the Hampshire Avon and Test & Itchen Catchment Partnerships, working with landowners, communities, and industry to improve water quality, restore habitats, and build resilience in these globally important chalk streams. With a strong reputation, secure finances, and growing opportunities under changing environmental policy, WRT is poised for its next chapter of growth under confident and visionary leadership.About the Role The Chair of Trustees provides strategic leadership to the Board and supports the CEO and senior team to ensure WRT continues to thrive as a trusted expert in freshwater conservation.Key responsibilities include Leading the Board in setting strategy, policy, and governance standards.Acting as an ambassador for WRT, representing the charity at meetings and events.Supporting the CEO, ensuring effective communication between Trustees and staff.Overseeing financial sustainability and long-term strategic planning.Promoting the Trust’s profile, partnerships, and fundraising opportunities. Person specification We are seeking an experienced and collaborative leader with prior experience as a Chair or Trustee, strong strategic vision, and a commitment to environmental protection. You’ll be an effective communicator, confident decision-maker, and advocate for WessexRT’s mission to protect and restore rivers across Wessex. For a full breakdown of the role, responsibilities, and person specification, please see the recruitment pack. Visit Wessex Rivers Trust’s website to learn more about the work of the Trust. Apply Application deadline: Midnight Wednesday the 19^th of November 2025 To apply, please visit the recruitment platform. 

Thames21 is seeking an energetic, experienced and committed person to lead our team of Catchment Partnership hosts. This role will involve overseeing the development of our portfolio of 10 hosted and co-hosted Catchment Partnerships across a diverse landscape of urban and rural river catchments spanning London and the wider Thames Basin. Each partnership is unique, and we pride ourselves in developing each according to the local partners’ vision and as is appropriate for the character of the area and river. Our primary aim is to deliver the Catchment Based Approach and tangible on-the-ground improvements that achieve clean, healthy rivers which deliver social benefits for our communities. The successful candidate will have operational experience at catchment level as well as management experience. The candidate will take a strategic overview of all catchment partnerships and guide our team of Catchment Partnership hosts and officers, enabling the enhanced delivery of the four priority themes: –Stakeholder and community engagement as part of active, delivery focused partnerships.Project identification and development to support delivery of catchment plans, sub-catchment plans and Thames21’s 5‑year plan.Successful fundraising for delivery of river catchment improvement projects.Knowledge sharing, to bring people together in a way of working that is inclusive, collaborative, cross boundary and catchment wide. Finally, the role will take a lead in ensuring the Thames21 Catchment Officer/​host role is resiliently funded by working closely with partner organisations to increase investment in catchment partnerships to deliver healthy rivers and catchments. Key responsibilitiesWork with Thames21’s Catchment Partnership Officers/​hosts to develop their Catchment Partnership networks and ensure each is delivering against clear catchment and sub catchment action plans.Lead on the administration and reporting of Catchment Partnerships programme and line management of the Catchment Partnership team.Oversee the management of the Catchment Partnership Team budget, working proactively to identify and fill any funding short​falls​.In partnership with the Head of Improving Rivers and Catchment Partnerships Officers, develop each catchment partnerships value to partner organisations with a view to them investing in the catchment partnership host role.Support Thames21’s strategic work with external stakeholders through working alongside the Chief Executive Officer to administer the River Partnerships in London (RiPL) group.Work closely with Environment Agency catchment coordinators to develop multi-year strategic approaches to delivering national Water Environment Improvement objectives and National Success Measures for Catchment Partnerships.Help Catchment Partnership Officers identify, develop and raise funding for river catchment improvement projects, taking a leading role in strategic technical funding bids and working closely with the Heads of Improving Rivers and Fundraising team.Contribute to the strategic direction of Thames21 Improving Rivers Team and long-term. sustainability of the organisation.Arrange, host and coordinate Catchment Partnership Meetings including production of agendas, minutes and actions.Oversee the delivery of strategic projects. This role is ideal for those who: Enjoy managing people and projectsEnjoy working with project partners and other key stakeholdersAre self-motivated and enjoy identifying, developing and fundraising for strategic projects that support the delivery of Thames21’s 5 year plan.Are comfortable working in a flexible role and adapting to changeAre comfortable to work across multiple projectsAre comfortable working at speedAre happy to work in a role which comprises both desk work and infield visits Please see the attached job description for a full breakdown of the role, responsibilities, and person specification. Visit Thames21’s website to learn more about the work of the Trust. Apply To apply for this position please, email an up-to-date copy of your CV and a covering letter to recruitment@​thames21.​org.​uk with the reference (CPPM1125), in the subject box of your email application. The closing date for applications is: Sunday 30^th of November 2025Interview dates: Week commencing 8^th of December 2025 (subject to change) We appreciate the time you will have taken to apply to this role, and we do appreciate that it is disconcerting when you don’t hear back from a role you have applied for. However, due to the high number of applications we expect to receive, we are unable respond to or give feedback on individual applications, but we do want to be able manage expectations. Therefore, if you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.