TCV
Connecting people and green spaces
Activities
Found 981 activities
Activity key
- Green Gym
- Conservation Action
- Tree Planting
- Health Walk
- Children and Young People
- Training or workshop
- Food Growing
- Public event or activity
- Wildlife surveying activity
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Tuesday 15th September 2026
Practical Conservation Day
With Biodiversity Action Team
At Edinburgh Office
Activity description
The Edinburgh Biodiversity Action Team (EBAT) is a practical conservation programme delivered by The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), supporting habitat restoration and biodiversity across Edinburgh. Working as part of the Edinburgh Nature Network and Urban Biodiversity Enhancement Strategy, we help improve, connect, and enhance a wide range of greenspaces—from parks and meadows to woodlands, rivers, and community sites. Volunteer activities vary throughout the year and may include: -Meadow management (scything, cutting, and removal of arisings) -Pollinator habitat creation (bee banks, wildflower areas) -Invasive species control and habitat restoration -Woodland management and tree aftercare -Pond and wetland habitat work -Bioblitz sessions and species recording - Citizen science and ecological monitoring (plants, pollinators, habitats) Activities follow a seasonal programme, with meadow work and surveys in spring and summer, and woodland, planting, and habitat creation work in autumn and winter. -Through this work, volunteers contribute to improving biodiversity, supporting pollinators, and restoring ecological processes across the city.
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Tuesday 15th September 2026
West Dunbartonshire Biodiversity Action Team
With West Dumbartonshire Council
At Saltings The
Activity description
Join The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) to enhance the biodiversity of West Dunbartonshire’s greenspaces. We meet regularly in The Saltings, Faifley Knowes and Auchnacraig to help care for the local woodlands and wildlife areas, plant trees and hedges, create wildflower meadows, clear invasive plant species, and much more! Conservation volunteering is a great opportunity to make a difference for nature and to combat climate change. Details of upcoming sessions are emailed out each Friday. Get in touch if you would like to be added to our mailing list.
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Tuesday 15th September 2026
Nature Counts Cumbernauld
With CLL Nature Counts Volunteers
At Cumbernauld Living Landscape
Activity description
We meet every Tuesday 10:30-13:00 at different Scottish Wildlife Trust and North Lanarkshire Council wildlife reserves, across Cumbernauld. We will participate in a variety of wildlife surveys to understand targeted species and how we can help them. From pollinator walks to mammal surveys, we will cover a variety of species recording. We may also complete conservation tasks, such as removing invasive species or making homes for nature. Through taking part in these Citizen Science sessions you will gain skills in wildlife identification, meet new people and discover the wildlife that lives in Cumbernauld!
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Tuesday 15th September 2026
Forth Valley Biodiversity Action Team
With Forth Valley BAT
At Carsebridge Cultural Campus
Activity description
The Forth Valley Biodiversity Action Team undertake various practical conservation tasks and improve green spaces across Falkirk and Stirling. Activities include woodland management, pond clearance, maintaining paths and sowing wildflower seeds. We are dedicated to enhancing biodiversity through a range of activities from woodland management, creating habitats, eradicating invasive species, sowing wildflower seeds and community garden work. Volunteering is a great way to gain new skills and an opportunity to meet new people from a range of backgrounds. Come and join us to help care for the environment, meet new people and spend some time in the great outdoors!
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Tuesday 15th September 2026
EPIC Biodiversity Action Team
With EPIC Volunteers
At Carsebridge Cultural Campus
Activity description
TCV in partnership with EPIC (Enabling Projects in Clackmannanshire) run practical volunteer sessions where people come together to make a difference in their local paths, parks and greenspaces across Clackmannanshire.
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Wednesday 16th September 2026
Conservation and Improve Bio Diversity
With Dorset Biodiversity Action Team
At Mannington Substation
Activity description
TCV will be providing habitat enhancements and biodiversity management on part of the non-operational land at Mannington Substation. We will also offer volunteering, educational- and community engagement opportunities which will increase the health and social wellbeing of local communities.
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Wednesday 16th September 2026
South Wood, Ninfield
With East Sussex Biodiversity Action Team
At Ninfield National Grid
Activity description
Looking after woodland and meadow adjacent to National Grid site on Potman's Lane in between Ninfield and Catsfield.
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Wednesday 16th September 2026
Oak Avenue Nature Reserve - Scrub management
With Biodiversity Action Team (West London)
At Oak Avenue Local Nature Reserve
Activity description
We will be working in Oak Avenue Nature Reserve to manage the scrub encroachment on pathways and meadows. The site is managed for biodiversity by Richmond Council. We will look to push back bramble suckering off meadow edges to maintain the grassland space. We will also complete bracken & horsetail removal in the meadows. Bracken fern is the UK's most common fern. It grows in dense stands in grasslands and dies off during summer creating a fire risk. Bracken is often removed from grassland sites to ensure it doesn't overpower other species/encroach on meadows. Please wear long-sleeves to this event as bracken sap/spores can irritate skin, and we will be clearing prickly seedlings (bramble, hawthorn, blackthorn) so let's reduce scratch risk!
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Wednesday 16th September 2026
Wednesday Practical Conservation Workdays
With Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park Conservation Volunteers
At Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park
Activity description
Join our regular Wednesday 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. You can just turn up on a Wednesday and don't need to book ahead but, 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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Wednesday 16th September 2026
Volunteer Wednesdays
With Stave Hill Midweek Volunteers
At Stave Hill
Activity description
Join our friendly volunteer team carrying out habitat management tasks in Stave Hill Ecology Park. Projects range from maintenance projects such as fence and structures repairs, to practical conservation activities including hedgelaying and meadow management. No experience necessary, all projects cater to differing levels of physical ability.