TCV
Connecting people and green spaces
Activities near LE56DE
Found 101 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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Friday 29th August 2025
Rowheath Pavilion Community Garden
With Rowheath Pavilion Green Gym
About 39.0 miles away from your postcode
At Rowheath Pavillion
Activity description
Join us every Friday as we live the Good Life by sowing, growing, and harvesting our own food. Feel the thrill of uncovering tasty potatoes, parsnips, and carrots. Enjoy the taste of freshly picked peas and savour those fabulous strawberries. It doesn't get better than this. We have a growing space with accessible raised beds right next to the pavilion building. All tools and equipment are provided. We also go for a nature walk around Rowheath Park whilst we immerse ourselves in the sights and sounds that this valuable green space has to offer. Bird ID walks are also undertaken along with traditional conservation activities.
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Friday 29th August 2025
Bird Song Walk
With Rowheath Pavilion Green Gym
About 39.0 miles away from your postcode
At Rowheath Pavillion
Activity description
May the force (of nature) be with you. Amaze your friends and family by being able to identify birds by their call alone. Become a local hero as you gain confidence and expand your knowledge. Join us for a relaxed circuit of Rowheath Park whilst we ID birds by song and sight. The site has meadows, mature hedgerow, and a large pool with a diverse variety of birds and other wildlife. The walking route is wheelchair and pushchair friendly. Look out for our dawn chorus walks in April and May!
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Friday 29th August 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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Monday 1st September 2025
Abbey Pumping Station Gardening Group
With Leicester Food Growing
About 3.2 miles away from your postcode
At Abbey Pumping Station Museum Grounds
Activity description
Come and join this friendly regular group, which meets weekly to do gardening at the beautiful Abbey Pumping Station. Our group grows it's own vegetables on our allotment (plenty of raised beds for those with mobility issues) and also flowers for the on site sensory "Forget-Me-Not Garden". Tea, biscuits and your chosen level of social interaction are part of our regular time each week :)
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Monday 1st September 2025
Holloway Hall Community Garden
With Ley Hill Green Gym
About 40.6 miles away from your postcode
At Ley Hill Green Gym
Activity description
Grow your own food and make new friends at our lovely garden opposite Holloway Hall Community Centre. We meet at Ley Hill every Monday to do some gentle gardening work and sow, grow, and enjoy tasty fresh produce. There are numerous fruit shrubs here which leads to some tasty jams and deserts in the late summer. Our sites have raised beds which are accessible and manageable. We also have a number of benches within the garden where you can enjoy your brew and listen to bird song.
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Tuesday 2nd September 2025
Wildflower Meadow Cutting & Clearing
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 18.3 miles away from your postcode
At Rushton Pocket Park
Activity description
We are making a welcome return to this lovely green oasis in the idyllic Northamptonshire village of Rushton. All welcome to help us carry out the annual end of season wildflower meadow cut and clear. All the grassland vegetation will be cut using a traditional pedestrian Sicklebar Mower followed by hand raking to clear away all the arisings to make habitat piles on site. This is best practice to maintain grassland species diversity by keeping the nutrient level low. Rotting cut grass not removed will just add more nutrients to the soil structure thereby reducing the growth of wild flowers.
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Tuesday 2nd September 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 2nd September 2025
West Heath Community Gardens
With West Heath Green Gym
About 40.4 miles away from your postcode
At West Heath Community Centre
Activity description
Join us and get outdoors in 2025! We meet at West Heath every Tuesday to do some gentle gardening work at the Community Garden here. No gardening experience is necessary as we will tell you everything you need to know. We provide tools and gloves. Please wear suitable clothes and shoes - we work outdoors for three hours in all weather conditions. This site is wheelchair accessible and consists of raised beds at various heights.
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Tuesday 2nd September 2025
Grass Strimming and raking
With Bedfordshire Environmental Action Team
About 41.6 miles away from your postcode
At Great Stukeley Sssi
Activity description
This site is a rare and important grassland habitat so we're helping to manage it for wildlife by keeping nutrient levels low. Strimming the grass off and raking it away from the grassland means nettles and thistles are less likely to thrive, giving more chance for wildflowers to do well.
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Tuesday 2nd September 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 at the community allotment and learn to grow your own fruit and veg! No previous experience is needed and tools, gloves and instruction will be provided by our friendly team. We meet every Tuesday morning from 10.45am until 1.30pm at The John Bunyan Sports and Fitness Centre on Mile Road, Bedford. Please do wear suitable outdoor clothing and sturdy enclosed footwear. A waterproof jacket is recommended.
