Kensington Nature Center

GET INVOLVED

Volunteering

The Kensington Nature Center is always looking for interested volunteers to help in a variety of ways. Volunteers may help with festivals, assist with day camps, do trail work including invasive species control, answer phones, be leaders on bird, butterfly or dragonfly counts, and help us maintain our gardens, among other tasks. Some work with the osprey volunteers to monitor our nesting birds; some are assigned to a bluebird nest box trail. It depends on what your interests are and what you’re comfortable doing.

Benefits of Volunteering

You may work as much or as little as you wish; some of our volunteers are “regulars” while some may only help out with special programs. If volunteers work a minimum of 24 hours a year, a vehicle sticker will be issued for the next year. They are also invited to a volunteer picnic in the summer.

Procedures for Volunteering

Please contact us at the nature center, meet with some of the staff, and fill out volunteer forms. We may then contact you when we need assistance in your area of interest.

Making Donations

Donations are welcomed by the Metroparks. On occasion, we are able to accept books, mounts or other items that we have a need for. Usually, however, it’s most useful to us if we have cash donations. The nature center has a donor “toad” for people to “feed” if they choose – it’s by the visitor sign-in booth.

In addition, we maintain a list of items that we would like to have, primarily to enhance our programs and exhibits. These items are usually not possible for us to purchase through our limited budgets. This list is available upon request.