Volunteer with Friends of Shelby
Volunteers breathe life into our mission to preserve, protect, and enhance Shelby Park and Bottoms. Volunteers are at the heart of Friends of Shelby: planting trees, picking up trash, maintaining trails, assisting with special events, and helping with various larger projects.
Check out all the ways to get involved, and sign up today to receive updates on volunteer opportunities.
All ongoing volunteer projects are family friendly, so long as volunteers under the age of 18 are accompanied by a legal guardian. Dogs are allowed at trash pickup events so long as they are friendly with other dogs and kept on a 6 foot leash at all times.
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Upcoming Volunteer
EVENTS
Cornelia Airpark Concert
SAT June 20th
The next Cornelia Airpark Concert of the summer is right around the corner and is bound to be a great evening. Our volunteers help us make them happen — from taking tickets to checking IDs to serving drinks, we couldn’t put them on without you! Click the link below to sign up for a shift, volunteers get a free t-shirt and those over 21 get a free beer!
ongoing Volunteer
PROJECTS
Trash Pickup
FRI June 5th (9-11 AM)
Thousands of people utilize Shelby Park throughout the summer months, meaning there’s plenty of trash blowing in the wind. Help us keep the park looking its best for all of our visitors by joining in on a trash pick up!
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Golf Course Clean Up
THU June 11th (9-11 AM)
Vinny Links provides summer golf programming to local kids and teens through the First Tee of Tennessee program, but they can’t make them happen without golf balls! We’ll work to gather golf balls lost in the edges of the forest near the driving range.
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Making Seed Packets & Handouts
TUE June 16th (9-11 AM)
Friends of Shelby’s event season is in full swing and we’re in need of a restock on our free handouts! We’ll work on origami seed envelopes and folding brochures, as well as some postcards for our annual donors. This activity will take place under a picnic shelter while seated.
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Airpark Invasive Plant Removal
WED June 17th (5:30-7:30 PM)
After a great start in April at the Cornelia Fort Airpark, our friends at the Southeastern Grasslands Institute has been hard at work preparing the site for restoration. They could use a few helping hands removing more of the woody invasive plants in the area, so join us for a rare evening volunteer project!
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Nature Center Garden Help
THU June 18th (9:30-11 AM)
The pollinator garden is full of life this time of year! Bees, butterflies, birds, and more rely on native plants, and the Nature Center does a great job of providing them. Join Hazel for a morning of gardening, weeding, mulching, and more and help out our local pollinators in the process.
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SHELBY PARK AMBASSADORS
Do you love Shelby Park and Bottoms? Would you like to be more involved in park events, the community, and Friends of Shelby? Join our Park Ambassador program! Park Ambassadors help achieve our mission of preserving, enhancing and protecting the park by increasing our community outreach via tabling, events, and open houses. In this long-term volunteer program, you will learn all there is to know about the park and FOS and share this valuable information with the public!
Interested in joining the team? Send an email to cd@friendsofshelby.org!
Community Group Volunteer Program
Friends of Shelby loves to work with groups. Whether it's your ten-person office or your 100-person church, please reach out and see if we have a project that would suit your goals. Friends of Shelby helps coordinate the project and provides tools, gloves, and work project assignments to match the size and capabilities of any volunteer group. Each volunteer day begins with an orientation including the goals of the park improvement effort, tool training, and general safety rules.
If you are interested in a project for your group, please click the button below and fill out our interest form!
Questions? Email our Community Outreach and Volunteer Leader at cd@friendsofshelby.org.
Thank you to our community partners
We could not do this great work without your help
Funding for the volunteer program provided by the Grateful Daniel Fund of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.
