TCV
Connecting people and green spaces
Activities
Found 667 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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Wednesday 15th January 2025
Cuckoo Trail Green Gym at Horam
With Cuckoo Trail - Green Gym
At Cuckoo Trail - Horam
Activity description
TCV's Green Gym will be running between 10am and 1pm - conservation activities, wildlife spotting, access management to suit all abilities. Everyone welcome.
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Wednesday 15th January 2025
Hedgelaying in Brockwell Park SE24
With Biodiversity Action Team (South London)
At Brockwell Park
Activity description
We return to Brockwell Park to continue with our winter hedge laying works on the western perimeter of the park. We will also be planting native whips in any gaps in the hedgerow, adding mulch where needed, and installing post and wire stock fencing in front of the hedgerow to protect it.
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Wednesday 15th January 2025
Cholmondeley Walk - Willow coppicing
With Richmond Weekday Projects
At Cholmondeley Walk
Activity description
Cholmondeley Walk is a new site for TCV. We will be working along the Walk to recoppice small willow stands growing along the Thames river bank.
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Wednesday 15th January 2025
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 15th January 2025
Weekly food growing volunteer sessions (Green Gym)
With Meridian One Community Garden Green Gym
At Meridian One Community Garden (Enfield)
Activity description
Food growing and gardening tasks. Each week will vary depending on what needs doing, but can include seed sowing, planting out, watering, composting, weeding, construction of raised beds and garden signs. Tasks are suitable for all abilities. We take a break at around 12.30pm with hot drinks, biscuits and fruit provided.
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Wednesday 15th January 2025
Woodham Environmental Group
With Bedfordshire Environmental Action Team
At Aylesbury National Grid Compressor
Activity description
We have a long term project on this site to improve biodiversity, so each week we'll be doing a range of tasks to increase the habitats - meadow management, woodland work, hedgerow management and lots more.
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Wednesday 15th January 2025
Queen Elizabeth Community Gardens
With Queen Elizabeth Hospital Green Gym
At Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Activity description
Join us every Wednesday morning at out Queen Elizabeth Community Gardens based in the grounds of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. We are a friendly and welcoming group who love to grow our food, and help provide a space where our local wildlife can thrive. We have a variety of different species on site, including a large variety of butterflies in the spring and summer and different birds from woodpeckers to blue tits. No previous experience is required and all tools are provided.
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Wednesday 15th January 2025
Nature and Wildlife Walks
With Queen Elizabeth Hospital Green Gym
At Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Activity description
Join us every Wednesday morning for our weekly nature and wildlife trail around our site at the Queen Elizabeth Community Gardens. We often see a variety of different species, including many different types of birds. Summer is especially magical when the butterflies take flight, and autumn brings the fungi in all of their delight! Learn about all of our amazing wildlife and how to ID what you see!
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Wednesday 15th January 2025
Hedge and woodland boundary work
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
At Leicester Forest East Park
Activity description
Volunteers will be undertaking a mixture of tasks including general vegetation cut back and clearance work in the first section of this park, sorting out fallen timber, maintaining existing dead hedge habitats with some hedgerow prep work. A popular site for everyone where TCV over the years have helped to manage the various boundary habitats, in a sensitive way that has helped support nature for the benefit of this local community green space.
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Wednesday 15th January 2025
You can lead a Hors to water...
With Norwich Midweek Group
At Horsebeck Way
Activity description
You can lead a Hors to water...but the new streamside path we are making is for pedestrians!
