TCV
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Activities near LE56DE
Found 69 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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Tuesday 7th January 2025
Varied Winter Habitat Conservation Tasks
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 7.9 miles away from your postcode
At Croft Quarry Nature Area
Activity description
We will be working on the scallop areas along the nature trail. Tasks will include coppicing self-sets, cutting and clearing thorn scrub and general vegetation encroachment. All arisings will be added to existing or new dead hedge habitats.
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Tuesday 7th January 2025
Swadlincote Woods
With National Forest Volunteers
About 22.3 miles away from your postcode
At Swadlincote Woods
Activity description
Join our friendly team at this urban woodland and park. Our team will be working on outdoor practical conservation activities to improve the site for both wildlife and local people. Tasks on the day will vary, but there will be something for everyone, no matter what your level of fitness. The day runs 10-3 with breaks for tea and for lunch! We are always pleased to welcome new volunteers (under 18s welcome by prior arrangement only).
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Tuesday 7th January 2025
Kingsbrook and Cauldwell Community Allotment
With Kingsbrook and Cauldwell Community Food Growing
About 43.6 miles away from your postcode
At Bunyan Sports and Fitness Centre
Activity description
Join us on the community allotment and learn how to grow your own food!
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Wednesday 8th January 2025
Varied Winter Habitat Conservation Tasks
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 7.9 miles away from your postcode
At Croft Quarry Nature Area
Activity description
The start of our 2025 season, we will be working on the scallop areas along the nature trail. Tasks will include coppicing self-sets, cutting and clearing thorn scrub and general vegetation encroachment. All arisings will be added to existing or new dead hedge habitats.
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Wednesday 8th January 2025
Queen Elizabeth Community Gardens
With Queen Elizabeth Hospital Green Gym
About 38.1 miles away from your postcode
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 8th January 2025
Nature and Wildlife Walks
With Queen Elizabeth Hospital Green Gym
About 38.1 miles away from your postcode
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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Thursday 9th January 2025
Practical selective vegetation management
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 7.8 miles away from your postcode
At Mountsorrel Quarry
Activity description
Working alongside the Mountsorrel (Tarmac) Environmental Restoration Team. Site 4 or Broad Hill is where we will be continuing our task of cutting and removing excess gorse and buddleia to help maintain the establishing grass heathland. All brash/arisings will be used to create dead hedge habitat corridors to further improve the biodiversity of this habitat. We will be able to take the TCV minibus up to the location of our work There are a network of public footpaths over the site with some great views on a clear day.
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Thursday 9th January 2025
Newbold Quarry Woodland Management
With National Forest Volunteers
About 27.8 miles away from your postcode
At Newbold Quarry
Activity description
Newbold Quarry is surrounded to the West by fields and reclaimed gravel pit ponds as well as small areas of woodland. We'll be thinning out trees within the woodland and removing some tree guards
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Friday 10th January 2025
Grass cutting and raking
With Weekday Conservation Team
About 41.6 miles away from your postcode
At Great Stukeley Sssi
Activity description
This site is a brilliant Site of Special Scientific Interest, bursting with wildflowers and all manner of wildlife. To keep it in excellent condition for wildflowers we need to cut the grass once a year to keep soil nutrient levels low. Every Friday EXCEPT the first Friday of the month.
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Tuesday 14th January 2025
Hedge and woodland boundary work
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 5.8 miles away from your postcode
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.
