TCV
Connecting people and green spaces
Activities
Found 787 activities
Activity key
- Big Green Weekend
- Green Gym
- Practical conservation activity
- Tree Planting event
- Health walk
- Children's activity
- Training or workshop
- Food growing activity
- Community event or activity
- Wildlife surveying activity
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Saturday 29th November 2025
Saturday Practical Conservation Workdays
With Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park Conservation Volunteers
At Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park
Activity description
Join our Saturday conservation workdays at the Ecology Park and help the wardens carry out vital management work in the park's different habitats - marsh, meadow, lakes, ponds, shingle beach and woodland. Places are limited to 10 on a Saturday, so you will need to book in advance by emailing gpep@tcv.org.uk The first time you volunteer, we will ask you to fill out a TCV Volunteer Welfare Form (or we can email this to you in advance if you prefer). You will be working as part of a volunteer team with the park wardens, carrying out tasks such as pond clearing, reed cutting, meadow cutting, coppicing (cutting smaller tree stems), digging and weeding.
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Saturday 29th November 2025
Saturday Wildlife Surveys @ the Paddock
With The Paddock Volunteers
At The Paddock Community Nature Park
Activity description
Join our saturday wildlife surveys in 2025 The event is for anyone who is interested in learning about nature, wildlife and their local greenspace. Beginners always welcome. Please book a place on Eventbrite. This may be wildflowers, pond creatures, butterflies, bumblebees or more depending on the time of year.
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Saturday 29th November 2025
Coppicing Woodfuel Day
With Community Woodfuel Volunteers
At Bagworth Heath Woods
Activity description
This is a great opportunity for you to learn about the craft of coppicing, and it also to helps maintain and manage local woodlands for people and nature over the coming years. We'll also be making dead hedges from the cut branches too, providing valuable habitat. You are also welcome to take away the logs you cut for your wood burner if you wish.
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Saturday 29th November 2025
Knockbracken Saturday Green Gym
With Saturday Green Gym
At Knockbraken Allotments
Activity description
Seasonal green gym activities.
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Saturday 29th November 2025
Tree Nursery Volunteering
With Tree Nursery Volunteers
At Cultra
Activity description
Join us for a volunteering taster session at our site in the Ulster Folk Museum, Cultra! This introductory session is aimed at people who are new to volunteering with the Tree Nursery and want to give it a try to see what it's like to volunteer with us. You'll join us for a tour of our site and will spend some time completing seasonal Tree Nursery tasks. Here at the Tree Nursery, we are always looking for volunteers to help us deliver our mission in helping Northern Irelands native woodlands. The vital conservation work we carry out would be impossible without you. So, if you like the sound of getting a bit mucky and having fun, all while doing good for the environment then this is the place for you! *Please email tcv-treenursery@tcv.org.uk to book a space.
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Sunday 30th November 2025
Bulb Planting Event
With Biodiversity Action Team (North London)
At Little Wormwood Scrubs
Activity description
Join us at Little Wormwood Scrubs where we will be planting a variety of flowering bulbs in the woodland to add a splash of colour next year!
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Sunday 30th November 2025
Shepherds Hill
With Haringey Sunday Volunteers
At Shepherds Hill Gardens
Activity description
Woodland and meadow management with the Friends of Shepherds Hill Gardens. Sign up here: https://us18.list-manage.com/survey?u=240cee6caea7920c5952fb280&id=99fc2de16d&attribution=false
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Sunday 30th November 2025
Practical Conservation - 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month
With York Practical Conservation - Weekend
At TCV York Office (THCC)
Activity description
We run practical conservation tasks in various locations in York and the surrounding area from 10am-4.30pm on the second and fourth Sundays of each month. Transport is provided from Tang Hall Community Centre and the University Library bus stop on University Road. No experience necessary. The work varies from season to season. In winter you could be tree planting, hedge laying, or creating and maintaining ponds and wetlands; whilst in summer you could be constructing wildlife areas in schools, creating footpaths, making hay, or undertaking invasive species control. If you want to get involved in practical work outdoors, learn new skills (or share old ones!) and work with a fun and friendly group then come and join in.
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Monday 1st December 2025
Conservation volunteering at South Wood, Ninfield (Nat Grid)
With East Sussex Biodiversity Action Team
At Ninfield National Grid
Activity description
Various conservation tasks, such as coppicing, fencing, footpath improvements, and invasive species control.
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Monday 1st December 2025
Coppicing Woodland Management at Davy Down
With South Essex Action Team
At Davy Down
Activity description
Support woodland health by clearing overgrowth, maintaining paths, and creating better conditions for native flora and fauna. Active, varied conservation tasks.