Climate Change and Volunteering: A Toolkit

A Toolkit

This toolkit, developed in collaboration with The Magna Project volunteers in 2025, offers practical guidance to empowering volunteers to share climate research with the public, in the context of a heritage setting and how climate change in heritage can become more integral to volunteer roles.

This toolkit will be of interest to heritage sites, museum, and other cultural institutions that would like to explore how climate change can be integrated into volunteering roles and heritage organisations, as well as enhance the bond between heritage professionals and volunteers.

While our research project specifically focuses on a public archaeological site with active excavations, many of the lessons learnt and considerations can be generalised to wider heritage sites and we hope you can draw valuable conclusions by repeating our experiment.

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The Magna Project

This toolkit is part of wider research within The Magna Project. The Magna Project is a five year National Lottery Heritage Fund project, working between 2023 – 2027, to better understand the impact of climate change on buried archaeology.

This research sits with The Vindolanda Trust’s strategic plan (2024 – 2034)

A group of people with their backs to the camera are looking at a laptop screen in a grassy field. The person holding the laptop has a grey polo shirt, red cap, and short brown hair. — The Magna Project geoarchaeologist and volunteers taking live readings from piezometers at Magna Roman Fort.