Becoming a blazeaider

You do not need any fencing experience, just a willingness to give it a go and learn on the job. You can volunteer for a day or two, or a week or more. Simply contact the Camp Coordinator before you are ready to come to the basecamp to discuss your travel plans.

Fencing is not only “men’s work” and age is no barrier.  In fact over 40% of our volunteers are female.  Many of our long-term volunteers are in their 50s and 60s, with other volunteers aged from teens to their 80s.

Not all fencing involves heavy work. Many fences need to be cleared of debris before they can be stood up and rebuilt. For new fences, the wires need to be run through the holes in the posts, and posts need to be held in place while the sighting is done.

  Volunteer work opportunities other than fencing include:

• Admin support – taking/making phone-calls, emails & messages, filing, data processing
• Kitchen - food preparation  and cooking support
• Offers from community organisations to cook an evening meal to give camp cooks a break
• Baking and delivering home  cooked foods to camps  
• Laundry help - hanging out and bringing in and folding washing
• Cleaning of camp facilities – dining, kitchen, showers, toilets, social areas
• General run-around persons -collecting grocery orders, etc.
• Maintenance of tools – each evening refuelling and sharpening chainsaws, refilling fuel and oil cans
• Combat trailer clean-up of all tools and checking of all tools
• Shuttling combat trailers and vehicles between storage areas and camps