TCV
Connecting people and green spaces
Activities
Found 995 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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Wednesday 26th August 2026
Citizen Science Volunteer Group
With Citizen Science Volunteers
At Glasgow wide
Activity description
This group meets every Wednesday (and the occasional Thursday) to carry out biological surveying and recording across Glasgow and further afield. This will give you experience in carrying out biological surveys, allow you to take part in Citizen Science projects, and gain native species identification skills. PICK UP FROM KILLERMONT STREET MUST BE ARRANGED IN ADVANCE
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Wednesday 26th August 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 greenspacesâ€â€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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Wednesday 26th August 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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Wednesday 26th August 2026
EPIC Green Gym
With EPIC Green Gym
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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Thursday 27th August 2026
Crowborough Green Gym
With Crowborough Green Gym
At Horder Centre, Crowborough
Activity description
Green Gyms are a fun, free, friendly way to keep active in the outdoors, make new friends and boost your health and wellbeing. Join us on Thursday mornings at The Horder Centre in Crowborough for three hours of gentle outdoor activity in the wonderful grounds. Gardening, horticulture, nature projects and conservation - activities will vary and can be made as easy as you like so that everyone can take part. Please get in touch to do a registration form in advance but no need to commit to weekly.
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Thursday 27th August 2026
Pulling up ragwort
With Action for Croydon's Environment
At Happy Valley
Activity description
We will be removing ragwort from meadows intended to be cut and collected for livestock feed
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Thursday 27th August 2026
Rhododendron cutting/removal
With Berkshire Biodiversity Action Team
At St Catherine's Lodge
Activity description
Removing invasive rhododendron
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Thursday 27th August 2026
Ham Common Woods - Acid grassland management
With Biodiversity Action Team (West London)
At Ham Common Woods
Activity description
We will be working in Ham Common Woods next to St Andrew's Church to maintain a patch of acid grassland, a nationally important and vulnerable habitat. Tasks may include: - Removal of self-set bramble & woody saplings - Removal of leaf litter & wooden debris - Removal of seed heads from dominant species - Haling of ivy - Removal of basal growth from mature avenue trees - Litter picking
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Thursday 27th August 2026
Special Event - Teddy Bears’ Picnic!
With Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park Events
At Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park
Activity description
Bring your own teddy bear and join Bella Bear on a bear adventure! Walk with Bella from the Ecology Park to Southern Park, carrying out fun activities and games along the way. Collect a stamp in a special Teddy Bear Passport for each game or activity you complete to become and official member of the Teddy Bear Club! Then stay around for our Teddy Bears' Picnic in Southern Park. We will have rugs to sit on in a shaded area and a selection of fruit and some water but please feel free to bring along your own picnic food. The walk starts at 11am from the Ecology Park Gatehouse.
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Thursday 27th August 2026
Excavating and installing the foundations for the new statue in Archbishops Park SE1 7LE
With Biodiversity Action Team (South London)
At Archbishop's Park
Activity description
We return to Archbishop's Park, this time round to excavate and install the foundations for the plinth of the 'boy with dog' statue that is to be unveiled in the park next month. There are water pipes and tree roots nearby, so we will be carefully excavating the area with hand tools, then lining the area, edging it with small pavers and pouring concrete to create a solid foundation for the 2 tonne bronze statue.