25 Years Of... Volunteering

Currently, over 260 people volunteer their time at the Arboretum.

From welcoming and advising visitors, providing guided tours and walks to administration and marketing, our volunteer and staff teams work together to ensure that all of our visitors have a great experience when they visit our site.

Our volunteers are aged between 15 and 85, many of our young volunteers are using their experiences with us as they complete their Silver and Gold Duke of Edinburgh Awards.

Last year an amazing 50,000 voluntary hours were given by our volunteer team.

Corporate Volunteers

Over the last 25 years we have welcomed many local companies to our grounds to help us with projects from restaining benches, planting and memorial maintainance.

Their support helps us in our mission to ensure those who have served our country are never forgotten and that the baton of Remembrance can be passed on through the generations.

Take a look at just some of the projects corporate volunteers have helped us with recently...

Shot at Dawn Restoration

In 2024 we restored one of our most poignant and moving memorials. Donations funded the replacement of the 309 posts, representing each soldier shot, later pardoned, and now remembered at the Arboretum.

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Aerial Photograph of the Garden of the Innocents

Fundraising appeal launched to help National Memorial Arboretum pass baton of Remembrance to future generations

Call for project partners to help preserve the memory of child victims of war and terrorism coincides with the 80th anniversary of the death of Anne Frank.

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National Memorial Arboretum Volunteers with Award

In 2025, our volunteers were awarded a High Sheriff Award for their unwavering dedication.