Kate Ashbrook: 'investing in new post'. Photo: Andrew McCloy

Britain’s oldest national conservation charity is recruiting a new staff member to help support its local activists and increase its membership.

The Open Spaces Society is looking for a home-based person to work with its correspondents across the country and develop new networks of members. The job would also entail frequent visits to the organisation’s office in Henley-on-Thames.

General secretary Kate Ashbrook said: “We have decided to invest in this new post because it will enable us to expand our coverage by local representatives, and increase our capacity to deal with the many threats to commons, greens, open spaces and public paths.

“We currently have five members of staff and 33 local correspondents, but we’d like to have a representative in every part of England and Wales, to respond to proposed changes to the path network and to assist our members in their campaigns to protect their local paths and green spaces.  This exciting new post will help us to achieve our aspirations.”

More information is available on the Open Spaces Society website.

The OSS was founded in 1865 and is Britain’s oldest national conservation body. It campaigns to protect common land, village greens, open spaces and public paths, and people’s right to enjoy them, throughout England and Wales.