David Attenborough with TCV staff and volunteers

About us

We are The Conservation Volunteers

But you can call us TCV. Since 1959, we’ve been a charity creating opportunities for people to create, improve and care for nature in the green spaces around them across the UK.

Our variety of projects cover a bit of everything involving nature. Volunteers muddy their boots in parks, community gardens, woodland, sites of special scientific interest, nature reserves, schools and hospital grounds, helping create a glorious network of protected green space across the UK.

This work connects people with nature, and that connection delivers powerful results.

The impact of TCV's work

Our vision

Better nature for all.

Our mission

To connect people together to protect and restore nature, delivering lasting benefits for both.​

Protect and restore local environments.

Empower others to take action for nature.

Improve people’s health and wellbeing through nature connection.

Develop conservation and green skills.

Find out more about TCV’s strategic goals for 2025-2030.

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The Conservation Volunteers are the unsung heroes of the environment. No one will protect what they do not first care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced…

Simply as a citizen, I want to thank you for the way you have transformed the way in which I spend my urban life… You provide not only reasons but the ability to do things. You are an astonishing organisation.

TCV Vice President, Sir David Attenborough CBE