TCV
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Activities near LE56DE
Found 31 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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Thursday 2nd January 2025
Hedge and woodland boundary work
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 5.8 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 to maintain existing dead hedge habitats and some hedgerow prep work. A popular site for everyone where over the winter seasons past TCV have helped to manage the various boundary habitats, in a sensitive way that has helped support nature and this local community green space.
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Tuesday 7th January 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 on the scallop areas along the nature trail. Tasks will include coppicing self-sets, cutting and clearing thorn scrub and general vegetation encroachment. All arisings will be added to existing or new dead hedge habitats.
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Wednesday 8th January 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
The start of our 2025 season, we will be working on the scallop areas along the nature trail. Tasks will include coppicing self-sets, cutting and clearing thorn scrub and general vegetation encroachment. All arisings will be added to existing or new dead hedge habitats.
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Thursday 9th January 2025
Practical selective vegetation management
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 7.8 miles away from your postcode
At Mountsorrel Quarry
Activity description
Working alongside the Mountsorrel (Tarmac) Environmental Restoration Team. Site 4 or Broad Hill is where we will be continuing our task of cutting and removing excess gorse and buddleia to help maintain the establishing grass heathland. All brash/arisings will be used to create dead hedge habitat corridors to further improve the biodiversity of this habitat. We will be able to take the TCV minibus up to the location of our work There are a network of public footpaths over the site with some great views on a clear day.
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Tuesday 14th January 2025
Hedge and woodland boundary work
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 5.8 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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Tuesday 14th January 2025
Pond Restoration at Ibstock
With National Forest Volunteers
About 14.3 miles away from your postcode
At Ibstock School
Activity description
We'll be renovating an old wildlife pond that is currently dry by replacing the old liner and re-sculpting the planting shelves, helping to create a better habitat for amphibians.
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Wednesday 15th January 2025
Hedge and woodland boundary work
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 5.8 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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Thursday 16th January 2025
Winter vegetation management along site ditches.
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 4.9 miles away from your postcode
At Everards Meadows
Activity description
We will focus on clearing all dead, encroaching/excess vegetation growth from the site ditches and along the margins where it is safe to do so. Where the site flood meadows are under water we will hopefully be able to locate safer areas of work, if not we may have to reschedule the work. It might be a good idea to bring wellingtons.
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Thursday 16th January 2025
Bardon Hill Woodland Management
With National Forest Volunteers
About 11.7 miles away from your postcode
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Activity description
We'll be thinning out Birch trees from the maturing Oak woodland up on the hill
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Tuesday 21st January 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 continuing our project work on the scallop areas along the nature trail. Tasks will include coppicing self-sets, cutting and clearing thorn scrub and general vegetation encroachment. All arisings will be added to existing or new dead hedge habitats.
