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Activities near LE56DE
Found 91 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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Saturday 8th November 2025
Coppicing Woodfuel Day
With Community Woodfuel Volunteers
About 18.2 miles away from your postcode
At Packington Woods
Activity description
This is a great opportunity for you to learn about the craft of coppicing, and it also to helps maintain and manage local woodlands for people and nature over the coming years. We'll also be making dead hedges from the cut branches too, providing valuable habitat. You are also welcome to take away the logs you cut for your wood burner if you wish.
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Sunday 9th November 2025
Making leaf obelisks
With Bedfordshire Environmental Action Team
About 45.2 miles away from your postcode
At The Leys
Activity description
We'll be using hazel rods to construct some obelisks in the garden that we will fill with fallen leaves - this provides homes for wildlife over the winter and gives somewhere for the leaves to rot down, in time making leafmould for the raised beds.
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Monday 10th November 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 10th November 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 11th November 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 to enhance the woodland biodiversity by managing a new woodland ride that is being created to help enhance wildlife especially butterflies. All bramble, self-set growth will be cut back and cleared. There will be some selective thinning of small trees where necessary to further establish the ride. We will be wearing full PPE including safety hard hats which we will provide if you have not got one.
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Tuesday 11th November 2025
Repairing steps at Hilton Meadow
With National Forest Volunteers
About 29.1 miles away from your postcode
At Hilton Brook Meadows
Activity description
We'll be repairing and resurfacing some steps next to Hilton Brook
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Tuesday 11th November 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 11th November 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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Wednesday 12th November 2025
Practical Wetland Habitat Conservation Work
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 19.6 miles away from your postcode
At South Luffenham - Pond Close
Activity description
Pond Close South Luffenham is an evolving wetland habitat with boundary mixed species trees and hedges, the site has a rich species diversity. A tranquil village location benefiting nature and human enjoyment. Our project task will focus primarily on selectively removing excess reed growth from the pond margin. All reed removed will be stacked a short distance away and left for about one week before it is removed from site. There will be a small amount of coppicing hazel and general vegetation cut back.
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Wednesday 12th November 2025
Shenley Little Kitchen Garden
With Shenley Green Gym
About 39.9 miles away from your postcode
At Shenley Court Hall
Activity description
Join us every Wednesday morning from 10-1 in our Little Kitchen Garden at Shenley Court Hall. Help us tend the produce growing in the garden, and take care of our local nature and wildlife in the wildlife garden. The garden is new so this is the perfect time to join us and help shape a brand new community garden, and support the local community. No experience necessary and all tools are provided!