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Activities near B94AA

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  • Big Green Weekend
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  • Friday 28th February 2025

    Bird Song Walk

    With Rowheath Pavilion Green Gym

    About 4.4 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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  • Tuesday 4th March 2025

    Swadlincote Woods

    With National Forest Volunteers

    About 24.8 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 4th March 2025

    Hedge and woodland boundary work

    With TCV Leicester Volunteers

    About 29.9 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.

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  • Wednesday 5th March 2025

    Queen Elizabeth Community Gardens

    With Queen Elizabeth Hospital Green Gym

    About 2.9 miles away from your postcode

    At Queen Elizabeth Hospital

    Activity description

    Join us on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Wednesday of the month 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 5th March 2025

    Nature and Wildlife Walks

    With Queen Elizabeth Hospital Green Gym

    About 2.9 miles away from your postcode

    At Queen Elizabeth Hospital

    Activity description

    Join us on the 4TH WEDNESDAY of the month for our monthly 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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  • Wednesday 5th March 2025

    Chatham Place Community Garden

    With Chatham Place Green Gym

    About 5.5 miles away from your postcode

    At Chatham Place

    Activity description

    Join us every FIRST and THIRD Wednesday of the month at our Chatham Place Green Gym in Northfield. We are a friendly and welcoming group who love to grow our own food in a relaxed environment, whilst enjoying our time in the communal garden, and making new friends. No previous experience is required and all tools are provided. Chatham Place and the communal garden is fully accessible, and has on site accessible toilets. There is also space for indoor activities, which we use during bad weather to ensure we can all enjoy gardening and growing our own food all year round!

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  • Wednesday 5th March 2025

    Varied Winter Habitat Conservation Tasks

    With TCV Leicester Volunteers

    About 27.7 miles away from your postcode

    At Croft Quarry Nature Area

    Activity description

    Our project work will focus on woodland ride establishment and management. Over the previous couple of years we have started to create a new section of woodland ride in one on the woodland compartments. There will be some general cut back and clear of ground vegetation, along with selective small tree felling and dead hedge making / management.

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  • Thursday 6th March 2025

    Milebrook Hall Community Garden

    With Milebrook Hall Food Growing

    About 5.9 miles away from your postcode

    At Milebrook Hall

    Activity description

    Join us in the garden at Milebrrok Hall for a couple of hours of relaxed conversation and food growing. We have a greenhouse here to enable us to start the growing season off early. There are also a couple of raised beds which are readily accessible and easy to manage. This session coincides with the coffee morning too, so a warm brew is never far away. All tools and gloves etc are provided for you.

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  • Thursday 6th March 2025

    Hedge and woodland boundary work

    With TCV Leicester Volunteers

    About 29.9 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.

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  • Friday 7th March 2025

    Rowheath Pavilion Community Garden

    With Rowheath Pavilion Green Gym

    About 4.4 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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