TCV
Connecting people and green spaces
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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Friday 8th August 2025
Wildlife Surveys @ the Paddock
With The Paddock Volunteers
At The Paddock Community Nature Park
Activity description
Join our 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. 10am – 11am is our weekly bird survey 11:15am – 12:15pm is often a second wildlife survey. Second survey do not run every Friday in Autumn/Winter so please check Eventbrite for details. This may be wildflowers, pond creatures, butterflies, bumblebees or more depending on the time of year.
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Friday 8th August 2025
Lloyd Park Green Gym
With Lloyd Park Green Gym (Waltham Forest)
At Lloyd Park
Activity description
Join the Lloyd Park Gym today for a variety of conservation focused activities that promote good health in both body and mind!
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Friday 8th August 2025
TCV Essex Free Herb pots activity at Eco Festival, Culver Square
With North Essex Biodiversity Action Team (Midweek)
At Culver Square Shopping Centre
Activity description
Come and say hello as TCV Essex will be having a stall at this years Eco Festival at Culver Square Shopping Centre. We will be hosting an activity stool making recycled and zero waste pots with herbs to take home for FREE! Family friendly event!
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Friday 8th August 2025
Grass cutting and raking
With Weekday Conservation Team
At Great Stukeley Sssi
Activity description
This site is a brilliant Site of Special Scientific Interest, bursting with wildflowers and all manner of wildlife. To keep it in excellent condition for wildflowers we need to cut the grass once a year to keep soil nutrient levels low. Every Friday EXCEPT the first Friday of the month.
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Friday 8th August 2025
Rowheath Pavilion Community Garden
With Rowheath Pavilion Green Gym
At Rowheath Pavillion
Activity description
Join us every Friday as we live the Good Life by sowing, growing, and harvesting our own food. Feel the thrill of uncovering tasty potatoes, parsnips, and carrots. Enjoy the taste of freshly picked peas and savour those fabulous strawberries. It doesn't get better than this. We have a growing space with accessible raised beds right next to the pavilion building. All tools and equipment are provided. We also go for a nature walk around Rowheath Park whilst we immerse ourselves in the sights and sounds that this valuable green space has to offer. Bird ID walks are also undertaken along with traditional conservation activities.
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Friday 8th August 2025
Bird Song Walk
With Rowheath Pavilion Green Gym
At Rowheath Pavillion
Activity description
May the force (of nature) be with you. Amaze your friends and family by being able to identify birds by their call alone. Become a local hero as you gain confidence and expand your knowledge. Join us for a relaxed circuit of Rowheath Park whilst we ID birds by song and sight. The site has meadows, mature hedgerow, and a large pool with a diverse variety of birds and other wildlife. The walking route is wheelchair and pushchair friendly. Look out for our dawn chorus walks in April and May!
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Friday 8th August 2025
Some Might Say...
With Norwich Midweek Group
At Hellesdon abandoned station
Activity description
Some Might Say that it's hopeless, but we will be keep knocking back the dreaded balsam as much as we can.
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Friday 8th August 2025
Orchard Summer Pruning Course at Packington Woods
With National Forest Volunteers
At Packington Woods
Activity description
Want to learn a new skill this summer? Come join us a Packington Woods for a hands-on training session to learn the technicalities of summer orchard pruning and the benefits it has on the orchard as a whole! Contact Ben at ben.woolley@tcv.org.uk for more details.
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Friday 8th August 2025
Countess Friday Conservation Session
With Green and Healthy Hearts and Minds
At Countess Of Chester Country Park
Activity description
Here the group will be undertaking various conservation and management task around the park
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Friday 8th August 2025
Green Team
With Skelton Grange Green Team
At Skelton Grange Environment Centre
Activity description
Every week Green Team does a range of gardening and conservation tasks with experienced leaders and a lovely group of volunteers! Come and make a difference to the nature reserve and education areas enjoyed by thousands of local people every year.
