Help us to create a warm and friendly atmosphere, starting from the outside.

Help us provide much needed transportation for mom’s to go to school, work, or appointments.

We have several areas in the shelter that need some attention with painting or sprucing up.

Mowing the lawn, weeding our many flower gardens, trimming the bushes.

Help keep Portsmouth healthy by volunteering to drive seniors and adults with disabilities to their medical appointments.

SELT needs help in establishing and maintaining trails, removing invasive species, and keeping a watchful eye on our lands. Volunteers for this program visit our owned-lands on a regular basis and report back on observations and help with medium-duty management activities like trail clearing. Volunteers are also invited to participate in larger group work days…

With more than 160 properties and 8,300+ acres of open spaces protected by conservation easements, volunteers are critical to our ability to monitor and enforce our easements. Easement monitors visit the same property (or properties) annually, meet with landowners, observe its condition, and report back observations to the Land Trust.

Do you love to talk with people and share your love of the outdoors? Do you know plant, wildlife, or geology identification like the back of your hand? Do you have oral histories about local properties to share? If so, the GOAT program is for you!

Our program locations are in need of help: Monday through Friday, from around 10:00 am to 1:30 pm helping serve, clean up, sanitize, package, general meal assistance, plus decorating the locations, working on holiday favors, helping with reservations, and more. Some volunteers come as a group and have helped paint rooms, clean closets, spruce up…

Learn how to spread the word about HAVEN services and prevention education programs and help us fulfill our mission of Ending Violence and Changing Lives. Outreach volunteers may also assist HAVEN by distributing outreach materials to various businesses, hospitals and other agencies in Strafford and Rockingham Counties.