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  • Health walk
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  • Wednesday 19th February 2025

    Cuckoo Trail Green Gym at Hellingly

    With Cuckoo Trail - Green Gym

    At Cuckoo Trail - Hellingly

    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 19th February 2025

    Conquest Green Gym

    With Conquest Green Gym

    At The Hastings Centre garden

    Activity description

    We will be creating a productive, wildlife friendly vegetable and flower garden based at the Hastings Centre, in partnership with the Kings Church. Activities will include all aspects of vegetable growing, seed sowing, hedge cutting, propagating, soil improvement, planting seedlings, creating new habitats for wildlife such as bird boxes, feeders, and insect hotels, and managing the small meadow area for wildlife by sowing some areas of wild flowers.

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  • Wednesday 19th February 2025

    Ashdown Forest Health Walk

    With ESHW Ashdown Forest Health Walk

    At ESHW Ashdown Forest Health Walk

    Activity description

    Meeting at a different car park each week, this is our largest walking group with 30-40 people each week enjoying a one hour guided walk into the stunning countryside of Ashdown Forest.

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  • Wednesday 19th February 2025

    Ham Common Pond - Hedge planting & reed management

    With Richmond Weekday Projects

    At Ham Common Pond

    Activity description

    We will be completing a variety of tasks onsite: - Planting 160 whips to extend the living hedge around the pond, creating a natural barrier whilst also increasing biodiversity and providing habitat for animals. - Annual reed management, working in waders within the pond to remove excess reed growth encroaching on the waterway. - Lifting the canopy around the pond, and removing saplings encroaching on the amenity land around the pond. The tasks can be wet and muddy, depending on what you will be doing.

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  • Wednesday 19th February 2025

    Installation of natural play features 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 replace existing natural play features with far more robust, manufactured chestnut balance beams & logs, which we will interconnect to create a walkway through the play zone area in the Garden.

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  • Wednesday 19th February 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 19th February 2025

    St Joseph's Cemetery

    With Biodiversity Action Team (North London)

    At St Joseph's Cemetery

    Activity description

    We will continue to clear laurel, and start clearing willow saplings growing in the grassland

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  • Wednesday 19th February 2025

    Practical Conservation @ the Paddock

    With The Paddock Volunteers

    At The Paddock Community Nature Park

    Activity description

    We invite you to join us at the Paddock for our conservation activities in 2025! Beginners and experienced gardeners always welcome. Tasks vary by season, and may include: meadow and woodland maintenance, path clearance, pond work, woodwork and more.

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  • Wednesday 19th February 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 19th February 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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