TCV
Connecting people and green spaces
Activities
Found 905 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
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.
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Thursday 27th August 2026
Leyton Jubilee Green Gym
With Leyton Jubilee Park Green Gym
At Leyton Jubilee Park
Activity description
Come and join The Conservation Volunteers as we work to protect and enhance biodiversity and nature in Leyton Jubilee Park all whilst enjoying proven benefits to your physical and mental wellbeing! Activities include planting and maintaining wildflower meadows, wildlife survey work and citizen science, creating stag beetle loggeries, building bee banks, constructing both living and dead hedges and much more!
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Thursday 27th August 2026
Downhills Park
With Haringey Conservation Volunteers
At Downhills Park
Activity description
We will be doing a range of practical conservation activities in the Park, including surveys of the meadows and meadow cutting. Copy link into your browser to sign up: https://mailchi.mp/167c892b03c6/august-2026-newsletter-4741962