Friends of Spring Wood is a voluntary conservation group that undertakes practical conservation and maintenance work at the Spring Wood Picnic Site, near Whalley.
Student volunteer manager Andrea Rannard tells us all about the importance of volunteering and how local students rallied round to help clean up Morecambe Bay beach recently.
75 year old conservation volunteer Marie Porter happily spends hours getting stuck into making footpaths, felling trees, dry stone walling and hedge laying, with no signs of her age slowing her down.