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Activities
Found 991 activities
Activity key
- Big Green Weekend
- Green Gym
- Practical conservation activity
- I Dig Trees: Tree Planting
- Health walk
- Children's activity
- Training or workshop
- Food growing activity
- Community event or activity
- Wildlife surveying activity
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Thursday 7th August 2025
Conquest Green Gym - healthy conservation mornings
With Conquest Green Gym
At Conquest Hospital
Activity description
Join us for some lake management on the grounds of the Conquest Hospital in Hastings. The task for this green Gym is to clear the majority of the reedmace that is currently clogging the lake, and pile the removed reedmace onto the side of the bank to rot down. (This is quite a physical task and you will be required to wear waders and enter water that is thigh deep.)
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Thursday 7th August 2025
Crowborough Health Walk
With ESHW Crowborough Health Walk
At ESHW Crowborough Health Walk
Activity description
A very popular walk with different start points to make the most of the local countryside and views. Take care: due to local geography, can be a bit steep in places and sturdy footwear is advised.
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Thursday 7th August 2025
Rhododendron cutting/clearance
With Berkshire Biodiversity Action Team
At St Catherine's Lodge
Activity description
Rhododendron cutting
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Thursday 7th August 2025
Crane Park (Hospital Bridge Meadow) - Meadow management
With Richmond Weekday Projects
At Crane Park, Hospital Bridge Road Entrance
Activity description
We will be working in one of the six meadows in Crane Park, working to control dominant and unwanted plant species. In this session, we will be continuing our work in the Hospital Bridge meadow, on the corner of the A316 and Hospital Bridge Road (directly north of Willow Way). We will be hand pulling stands of creeping thistle and stinging nettles. We may also move into the main Crane Park meadow to complete canopy lifting and bramble pushback. Some species can fast become dominant/invasive in open meadow spaces. They will often form dense stands in spring and summer, which shades out wildflower and grass species. Removal is often done in spring and early summer, before seed heads are able to form, to contain the growth/spread of the plant. Dependent on species, we will be utilising a mixture of mattocking, digging, and hand pulling removal techniques.
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Thursday 7th August 2025
Playdough Mandalas
With Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park Events
At Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park
Activity description
Do you like playdough? Come and make your own batch. We will then show you how to turn it into a decorative mandala you can take home. Sessions run on a drop-in basis; they are free and no booking is required. These sessions will take place indoors, in our classroom, from 11am-12pm and 2-3pm. Ask at the gatehouse for directions. Stick around in the park and complete the quiz or younger children's trail to learn more about colours in the natural world.
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Thursday 7th August 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 7th August 2025
Ragwort pulling at Gosbecks Park
With North Essex Biodiversity Action Team (Midweek)
At Gosbecks Archaeological Park
Activity description
We will be continuing our efforts removing ragwort from the grazing fields of Gosbeck Park, as part of the meadow management plan. This will be done by hand pulling. Everyone is welcome. Free refreshments are provided including hot drinks and biscuits to fuel you!
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Thursday 7th August 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 7th August 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 7th August 2025
Wildflower Summer Grassland Project.
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
At Wing Water Treatment Works
Activity description
Come and join us for the annual hay cut and hand raking on eight designated parcels of species rich grassland surrounding the Wing Water Treatment Works site in the attractive Rutland countryside. Volunteers will be working to rake the cut grass from shaded areas into open areas, some translocation of cut grass from the smaller parcels to the larger areas for ease of conditioning into hay. All conditioned hay will be baled by a local farm park to be used for animal feed. This is a rewarding project for volunteers who are well looked after on this Anglian Water site, a good opportunity to enjoy and be outside with nature.
