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  • Thursday 18th September 2025

    Stanmore Marsh channel clearance

    With Biodiversity Action Team (North London)

    At Stanmore Marsh

    Activity description

    Join us as we clear out the flood relief channel at Stanmore Marsh

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  • Thursday 18th September 2025

    Weekly food growing volunteer sessions (Green Gym)

    With Meridian One Community Garden Green Gym

    At Meridian One Community Garden (Enfield)

    Activity description

    Food growing and gardening tasks. Each week will vary depending on what needs doing, but can include seed sowing, planting out, watering, composting, weeding, construction of raised beds and garden signs. Tasks are suitable for all abilities. We take a break at around 12.30pm with hot drinks, biscuits and fruit provided.

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  • Thursday 18th September 2025

    Raking the field margins and ditch at Berriman's Pasture

    With North Essex Biodiversity Action Team (Midweek)

    At Salary Brook

    Activity description

    Berriman's Pasture is managed as a wildflower meadow. It has two ditches and wide field margins. We will be raking up the arisings from recent brushcutting and creating habitat piles at the edge of the meadow.

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  • Thursday 18th September 2025

    Wymondley NG environmental group

    With Bedfordshire Environmental Action Team

    At Wymondley National Grid

    Activity description

    This is a long term project to improve biodiversity on the site. Each week we'll be doing different activities according to the season to increase and improve habitats for wildlife - it could be tree planting, wildflower surveys, seed collection, litter picking, scrub clearance and more.

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  • Thursday 18th September 2025

    Milebrook Hall Community Garden

    With Milebrook Hall Food Growing

    At Milebrook Hall

    Activity description

    Join us in the garden at Milebrrok Hall for a couple of hours of relaxed conversation and food growing. We have a greenhouse here to enable us to start the growing season off early. There are also a couple of raised beds which are readily accessible and easy to manage. This session coincides with the coffee morning too, so a warm brew is never far away. All tools and gloves etc are provided for you.

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  • Thursday 18th September 2025

    Watercourse vegetation management

    With TCV Leicester Volunteers

    At Cosby Stream

    Activity description

    Our annual visit to this attractive Leicestershire village site. Volunteers will be working to selectively remove the end of season wetland bank vegetation growth along a section of Cosby brook following along the Main Street and into 'The Nook'. There will be some uprooting of excess growth combined with a general cut back and removal of material. All material removed from the stream will be stacked in a designated area and left for a few days before collection and removal from site by the local council.

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  • Thursday 18th September 2025

    Where the longhorns roam

    With Norwich Midweek Group

    At Queens Hill Community Park

    Activity description

    Cutting and raking to maintain open areas where nationally rare longhorn beetles and solitary bees live.

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  • Thursday 18th September 2025

    Capenhurst Meadow Management

    With Merseyside Midweek Volunteer Group

    At Capenhurst Substation (National Grid)

    Activity description

    Cutting the sward and raking off the arisings to be composted. Timber compost bays to be built. Cutting back encroaching scrub. Scarification and/or harrowing of ground in preparation for hand seeding and planting of wildflowers.

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  • Thursday 18th September 2025

    Friends of Stanney Green Gym

    With Stanney Green Gym

    At Whitby Park

    Activity description

    TCV in partnership with Friends of Stanney will be running a Green Gym Project to undertake different environmental activities around the Stanney Estate, activities will include wildflower seed sowing, woodland management, footpath management etc

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  • Thursday 18th September 2025

    Practical Conservation Projects

    With TCV West Lindsey Volunteers

    At Mercer Woods

    Activity description

    A wide range of practical conservation and green spaces improvement works. everything from habitat management, tree planting to small scale construction tasks such as footpaths, fencing and platforms.

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