Managing Paxton Pits Nature Reserve is a team effort, of Huntingdonshire District Council, volunteers and The Friends of Paxton Pits. Use the contacts on this page to direct your query to the right person. Contact details for other activities in the Paxton Pits complex (such as the quarry, sailing club and watersports) are on the Links page.

Please note that, to reduce spam to the recipients, the e-mail addresses are not hyperlinks, but need to be copied into your e-mail software.

Comments/questions about the management of the nature reserve
To offer your help for weekday conservation activities or surveys
To arrange a school visit:
Jim Stevenson, Senior Ranger, Little Paxton Nature Reserve, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE19 4ET. 01480 406795, or e-mail

To arrange a group visit (other than schools): Click here for booking details.

To offer your help as a Volunteer Warden: David & Marjorie Chapple 01480 472536, or Jocelyn Gale 01480 810744, e-mail

To offer your help with weekend conservation activities:
Ray Matthews, 01480 215277

To contact The Friends of Paxton Pits Nature Reserve:
Chairman, Ray Matthews, 01480 215277
Treasurer, John Knight, 01480 394844
Membership enquiries, Marilyn McDonough, 01480 351823

To offer your help for weekend bird survey work:
Julian Hughes, 01480 391775

To provide your wildlife records, you can:
record your sightings in the Visitors' Centre when it is open.
e-mail them to .