TCV
Connecting people and green spaces
Activities
Found 961 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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Tuesday 27th October 2026
Nature Counts Cumbernauld
With CLL Nature Counts Volunteers
At Cumbernauld Living Landscape
Activity description
We meet every Tuesday 10:30-13:00 at different Scottish Wildlife Trust and North Lanarkshire Council wildlife reserves, across Cumbernauld. We will participate in a variety of wildlife surveys to understand targeted species and how we can help them. From pollinator walks to mammal surveys, we will cover a variety of species recording. We may also complete conservation tasks, such as removing invasive species or making homes for nature. Through taking part in these Citizen Science sessions you will gain skills in wildlife identification, meet new people and discover the wildlife that lives in Cumbernauld!
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Tuesday 27th October 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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Tuesday 27th October 2026
EPIC Biodiversity Action Team
With EPIC Volunteers
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 28th October 2026
Conservation and Improve Bio Diversity
With Dorset Biodiversity Action Team
At Mannington Substation
Activity description
TCV will be providing habitat enhancements and biodiversity management on part of the non-operational land at Mannington Substation. We will also offer volunteering, educational- and community engagement opportunities which will increase the health and social wellbeing of local communities.
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Wednesday 28th October 2026
Crane Park (Mill Road) - Maintaining laid hedge
With Biodiversity Action Team (West London)
At Crane Park (Mill Road Entrance)
Activity description
We will be working along the main pathway to maintain and relay sections of hedgerow. We may also continue coppicing work along the banks of the River Crane. Crane Park is managed for biodiversity by Richmond Council and FORCE. Laid hedges require regular maintenance to ensure regrowth remains bushy. We will work to push back suckering growth from the adjacent grassland buffer, prune new growth to promote bushier growth, and re-lay branches back into the existing hedge. Hedge laying is a traditional technique used to create living fences or boundaries by cutting and laying hedge tree stems to promote dense vegetation growth. Whilst hedge laying is still used for this reason across the UK, in urban areas it is also utilised to create dense, biodiverse, green corridors and refugia for animals. Coppicing along the river allows more light into this environment, promoting the growth of soft vegetation (a food source of the translocated water voles!). The root systems of these coppiced trees continue to grow and bind the soil, reducing soil erosion risk along the river. To coppice, is to fell a tree/sapling at its base (or 'stool') which promotes growth of further shoots. The result is multi-stemmed bushier growth. Coppicing is a traditional form of woodland management, with its use dating back to the Stone Age. Coppicing was originally used to ensure source of firewood and timber. Contemporarily, coppicing is primarily used to improve the health and biodiversity of woodland areas.
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Wednesday 28th October 2026
Path reinstallation works at Benhill Road Nature Garden in Camberwell SE5 7QS
With Biodiversity Action Team (South London)
At Benhill Road Nature Garden
Activity description
We return to the Nature Garden to undertake some much needed repair to the paths we installed many years ago, renewing the timber edging and topping up and levelling off / compacting the surfaces. We will also be installing a new self-binding aggregate path around the rear of the main bed, and carrying out ongoing repairs across the garden as required.
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Wednesday 28th October 2026
Wildflower Bulb Planting
With Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park Events
At Southern Park
Activity description
Join us for a Family Wildflower Bulb Planting Day on Wednesday 28th of October. Come along any time between 11 am and 1 pm, learn some gardening skills, and help us set the park for a colourful spring! Gardening tools will be available for all ages, along with hundreds of spring bulbs waiting to find a new home in the park. This activity is suitable for all ages. Young children may require additional support and supervision from their accompanying adult.
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Wednesday 28th October 2026
Wednesday Practical Conservation Workdays
With Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park Conservation Volunteers
At Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park
Activity description
Join our regular Wednesday conservation workdays at the Ecology Park and help the wardens carry out vital management work in the park's different habitats - marsh, meadow, lakes, ponds, shingle beach and woodland. You can just turn up on a Wednesday and don't need to book ahead but, the first time you volunteer, we will ask you to fill out a TCV Volunteer Welfare Form (or we can email this to you in advance if you prefer). You will be working as part of a volunteer team with the park wardens, carrying out tasks such as pond clearing, reed cutting, meadow cutting, coppicing (cutting smaller tree stems), digging and weeding.
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Wednesday 28th October 2026
Volunteer Wednesdays
With Stave Hill Midweek Volunteers
At Stave Hill
Activity description
Join our friendly volunteer team carrying out habitat management tasks in Stave Hill Ecology Park. Projects range from maintenance projects such as fence and structures repairs, to practical conservation activities including hedgelaying and meadow management. No experience necessary, all projects cater to differing levels of physical ability.
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Wednesday 28th October 2026
Lavender Pond Practical Work Days
With Lavender Pond Midweek Action Team, Rotherhithe
At Lavender Pond Nature Reserve
Activity description
Join us to help manage this local nature reserve, and get outside and active at the same time! We have ponds, woodland and meadow areas, so there's a wide range of tasks to be done. Contact Mike for details on what we've been up to recently or more information