TCV
Connecting people and green spaces
Activities
Found 879 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 25th November 2026
Conservation Action Team
With Conservation Action Team
At Beech House - Belfast
Activity description
TCV Belfast & East have many projects and volunteering opportunities that connect people and green spaces across Belfast, Greater Belfast and South Eastern areas of Northern Ireland. Everyone is welcome to volunteer with us regardless of age, ability, experience or background. Working outdoors is good for your physical and mental health, you can engage in real practical activity to improve your local environment which benefits everyone. Our volunteers are committed to making a difference. We offer a wide range of opportunities for people to protect, improve and sustain the environment and increase biodiversity. You can learn new skills, engage in physical activity (without going to the gym) and meet other like-minded people. Volunteering with our CAT team gives you a great opportunity get directly involved in practical conservation work. This can include anything from tree and hedge planting, fencing, shrub and wildflower planting, woodland management, pond construction, living willow structures, path construction, creating wildlife and community gardens. The CAT team operates during the week. You can join us at our pick up point in Belfast or in North Down and travel by minibus to sites all over the Belfast and South Eastern area of Northern Ireland. Tools and training are provided to enable you to carry out the day’s task.
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Wednesday 25th November 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 25th November 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 25th November 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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Wednesday 25th November 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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Thursday 26th November 2026
Leaky dams at Mansers Shaw, Battle
With East Sussex Biodiversity Action Team
At Mansers Shaw
Activity description
Natural flood management in the Powdermill catchment to reduce flood risk through Crowhust and out to sea. Join us in Winter 2026/27 as we pick up again where we left off last winter - creating leaky dams in Mansers Shaw. We will be doing (roughly) every other Thursday in the Battle area, rotating locations sometimes according to project progress and flood management advice from the High Weald Partnership. Please get in touch to book on and confirm meeting point.
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Thursday 26th November 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 26th November 2026
Rhododendron cutting/removal
With Berkshire Biodiversity Action Team
At St Catherine's Lodge
Activity description
Removing invasive rhododendron
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Thursday 26th November 2026
Hedgerow maintenance in Brockwell Park SE24
With Biodiversity Action Team (South London)
At Brockwell Park
Activity description
We return to Brockwell Park to undertake a whole series of biodiversity & conservation works across the park this Winter and through into Spring 2027. We start with the seasonally sensitive works, so we will be turning our attention to the mixed native hedgerow we planted and have laid twice now over the last few years - we will now be pruning the hedge while it's dormant so that it keeps it shape, removing any invasive vegetation and 'gapping up' with new trees where needed.
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Thursday 26th November 2026
Brazil Mill Woods (south) - Water vole habitat creation
With Biodiversity Action Team (West London)
At Brazil Mill Woods - Cygnet Avenue Entrance
Activity description
We will be working in the southern section of Brazil Mill Woods to re-naturalise a section of Mill Stream to improve habitat for the endangered water vole. The project is being managed by the Zoological Society of London in partnership with Wild Future Outdoors, Lampton Greenspace Services, and Hounslow Council. Water vole need well vegetated banks for food and predator avoidance. Overshading is the principle reason for lack of vegetated banks in this stretch of Mill Stream. We will look to reduce the shading over the eastern bank of the stream by removing overhanging branches, smaller trees and scrubby patches. The majority of tasks will be land-based, but there may be some activities within the water. We will provide waders and gloves. If you have smaller feet, I would recommend bringing an extra thick pair of socks as the smallest wader size we have available is a 7. This project is funded by Thames Water's Enhance the River Fund.