TCV
Connecting people and green spaces
Activities
Found 1005 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 8th October 2024
Coppicing Willow at Park Lane Nature Reserve
With Colchester Biodiversity Action Team (Midweek)
At Park Lane Nature Reserve (Tiptree Parish Field)
Activity description
Coppicing Willow trees adjacent at Park Lane NR, Tiptree. Allows for regeneration of scrub and wildflowers.
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Tuesday 8th October 2024
Community Food Growing!
With Kingsbrook and Cauldwell Community Food Growing
At Bunyan Sports and Fitness Centre
Activity description
Join our new community food growing project! Learn new skills, meet new people, grow your own food! All tools and instruction will be provided and no previous experience is required to take part. Our first session will be on Tuesday 13th February 2024 and sessions will then run every Tuesday throughout the year from 10.45am until 1.30pm. Please do wear suitable outdoor clothing and sturdy enclosed footwear. Do bring your own gardening gloves if you have some. We meet at 10.45am in front of the Bunyan Sports Centre on Mile Road, Bedford. For further information call Jen on 07740 899633 or email Jennifer.zwetsloot@tcv.org.uk
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Tuesday 8th October 2024
Grass cutting and raking
With Weekday Conservation Team
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 8th October 2024
West Heath Community Gardens
With West Heath Green Gym
At West Heath Community Centre
Activity description
Join us and get outdoors in 2024! 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 8th October 2024
Bartley Green and Go! Gardening Group
With Bartley Green and Go!
At Bartley Green Library
Activity description
Make new friends, get active and get growing!. Bartley Green and Go! is a community focused project based at Bartley Green Library. Join us for some fun and friendly gardening and food growing in the library garden. Together, we will create a community food growing area complete with raised beds and a greenhouse. In addition, we will also create a vibrant, wildlife friendly garden. We will also learn about traditional conservation activities and undertake various wildlife surveys.
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Tuesday 8th October 2024
Bartley Green and Go! Walking Group
With Bartley Green and Go!
At Bartley Green Library
Activity description
Make new friends, get active and get growing!. Bartley Green and Go! is a community focused project at Bartley Green Library. Meeting at the library at 10am, we go for a gentle walk along local green spaces. In addition to having a chat, we will identify any birds that we see along the way. At 11am, it's back to the library for a brew and a biscuit followed by some gardening and food growing in the library garden. We will also learn about traditional conservation activities and discover how to make our gardens more wildlife friendly.
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Tuesday 8th October 2024
Watercourse vegetation management
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
At Cosby Stream
Activity description
Our annual visit to this attractive Leicestershire village site. Volunteers will be working to selectively remove the end of season wetland bank vegetation growth along a section of Cosby brook following along the Main Street and into 'The Nook'. There will be some uprooting of excess growth combined with a general cut back and removal of material. All material removed from the stream will be stacked in a designated area and left for a few days before collection and removal from site by the local council.
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Tuesday 8th October 2024
You can take a Hors to water...
With Norwich Midweek Group
At Horsebeck Way
Activity description
You can take a Hors to water – but only if we make a path for people (not horses) to enjoy walking alongside the side of the beck here.
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Tuesday 8th October 2024
Woodland Management at Gresley Woods
With National Forest Volunteers
At Gresley, Swainspark & Tunnel Woods
Activity description
Footpath clearance & scallop creation through the woodland. We will be working at Gresley Woods on behalf of Forestry England to manage the woodland rides and helping to keep them open.
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Tuesday 8th October 2024
Whitby Park Green Gym
With Whitby Park Green Gym
At Whitby Park
Activity description
Here we will be undertaking a number of activities, including clearing along footpath in the woodland, felling of unwanted sycamore regeneration, pond works and other related activities
