• Thank you Shared Prosperity Fund

    Posted on 8 November 2023

    Our volunteer project, Helping Hands: Growing Caru Eryri has received £249,940 from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, administered by Gwynedd Council.

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  • Thank you to our supporters during the MaD weekend

    Posted on 14 September 2023

    Huge thanks to everyone who helped make our sixth annual Make a Difference Weekend a success!

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  • Make a Difference weekend – booking open!

    Posted on 31 July 2023

    Join us for our annual MaD weekend on the 8th – 10th September at Nant Gwynant, for a volunteering, events, food, live music and more!

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  • Bumblebee Conservation Trust: Call for volunteers

    Posted on 31 January 2023

    Would you like to learn more about bumblebees and how to identify different species? Would you like to help discover and monitor how bumblebee populations are doing in Eryri and indeed across North Wales? 

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  • Hedgerows: the stitching in the fabric

    Posted on 30 March 2022

    Hedgerows: the stitching in the fabric When we move through the landscape by car, bike, or on foot, it’s easy to overlook the hedgerows that line our journey. Their unbroken presence reduces them to almost a blur. However, for wildlife, these prickly strips of woodland provide the equivalent of a motorway network, connecting pockets of […]

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  • Winter footpath maintenance on Snowdon

    Posted on 8 February 2022

    After one of the busiest summers ever recorded in the Snowdonia National Park, the footpaths are needing some serious TLC!

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  • Volunteering Wales Grant supports Caru Eryri Partnership

    Posted on 6 February 2022

    Preparations are already underway ahead of this year’s ground-breaking Caru Eryri programme.

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  • Dozens of volunteers gather to Make a Difference in Snowdonia

    Posted on 22 September 2021

    The Snowdonia Society held its fourth annual Make a Difference (MaD) Weekend this September, which saw partner organisations, sponsors, volunteers and staff get together in person after a challenging 18 months.

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  • Forget the flip-flops, this is serious

    Posted on 27 August 2021

    What are the essentials for enjoying the outdoors responsibly, and what would truly sustainable tourism look like in Snowdonia?

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  • Free Accredited Training in August

    Posted on 24 July 2021

    Accredited Unit: Maintaining Mountain and Lowland Footpaths In the summer of 2018, the Snowdonia Society launched a new accredited unit in footpath maintenance. This unit allows you to learn and demonstrate your footpath maintenance skills – and is a useful addition to your CV. This unit is ideal for those who wish to have a […]

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  • The balsam season is here – and we need your help!

    Posted on 14 July 2021

    As part of the Carneddau landscape Partnership, Cymdeithas Eryri is working to support local communities to tackle the invasive species Himalayan balsam in their local area.  Clearing Himalayan balsam is a time consuming but hugely satisfying task – and many hands really do make light work in this case. Himalayan balsam seeds spread very easily, […]

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  • Volunteers we need you!

    Posted on 19 May 2021

    Summer is fast approaching and we need your help to manage visitor impacts!

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  • We’re recruiting: Project Officer – DEADLINE EXTENDED

    Posted on 12 April 2021

    An exciting opportunity to join our team!

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  • Trees: why do we plant them?

    Posted on 30 March 2021

    Planting trees increases survival rates as the trees have already got through their vulnerable early stages of life and so are likely to flourish. This is in contrast to natural regeneration in which there are many losses.

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  • David Bird wins runner-up prize in national award

    Posted on 23 March 2021

    Our wonderful volunteer, David Bird, has won a runner-up prize in a Volunteer of the Year award that celebrates dedicated volunteers working in national parks across England and Wales. Around forty volunteers were nominated for this award, organised by Campaign for National Parks, so we are extra proud! A big thank you to the hundreds of you who voted for David.

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  • Care for Snowdonia

    Posted on 12 March 2021

    Make a difference in 2021 Unprecedented numbers of people visited Snowdonia last year, eager to enjoy the beautiful National Park. ‘Staycations’ will be massive again in 2021, with people longing for escape after a winter of lockdown, so Snowdonia could be even busier. This is why we need your help.  Snowdonia Society is working with […]

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  • Vote for David!

    Posted on 8 March 2021

    Our dedicated volunteer, David Bird is short-listed for a national Volunteer of the Year award! The winner is chosen by the public in a very short time-frame: please vote for David now as voting ends this Wednesday! David has been a stalwart volunteer with the Snowdonia Society since first volunteering with us in May 2019. He […]

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  • Trees for the future

    Posted on 6 November 2020

    As you may be aware, The National Trust are planning to plant 20 million native trees over the next decade as part of their Woodlands Appeal Scheme. While increasing the overall coverage of trees is important of equal importance is the provenance of these trees. This is why the National Trust have started their own […]

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  • Mending our Mountains: The PyG track, Snowdon

    Posted on 2 November 2020

    An even busier summer than usual, combined with periods of traditionally Welsh weather and the inability of footpath maintenance to take place during lockdown, has left the paths leading to the summit of Snowdon in a rather sorry state. Thankfully, a small team of our volunteers were on hand on the 23rd of September to […]

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  • “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”

    Posted on 29 October 2020

    The mists may have given way to lashing rain at the moment, but this line from Keats’ poem, Ode to Autumn, has been in my mind awhile.

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