
Found 90 activities
Thursday 6th February 2025
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 7.9 miles away from your postcode
At Croft Quarry Nature Area
Our project work will involve rotational coppicing of willow and alder along the wetland margins of the main pond and wetland scrapes. All cut material will be repurposed into habitat corridors
Thursday 6th February 2025
With Milebrook Hall Food Growing
About 41.2 miles away from your postcode
At Milebrook Hall
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.
Friday 7th February 2025
With Rowheath Pavilion Green Gym
About 39.0 miles away from your postcode
At Rowheath Pavillion
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.
Friday 7th February 2025
With Rowheath Pavilion Green Gym
About 39.0 miles away from your postcode
At Rowheath Pavillion
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!
Friday 7th February 2025
With Weekday Conservation Team
About 41.6 miles away from your postcode
At Great Stukeley Sssi
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.
Monday 10th February 2025
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 5.8 miles away from your postcode
At Leicester Forest East Park
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.
Tuesday 11th February 2025
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 5.8 miles away from your postcode
At Leicester Forest East Park
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.
Tuesday 11th February 2025
With National Forest Volunteers
About 21.3 miles away from your postcode
At Poppy Wood
We will be pruning and thinning an area of maturing mixed woodland and using the brash to create a dead-hedge along the horse path, adding a valuable habitat and refuge for wildlife
Tuesday 11th February 2025
With Kingsbrook and Cauldwell Community Food Growing
About 43.6 miles away from your postcode
At Bunyan Sports and Fitness Centre
Join us on the community allotment and learn how to grow your own food!
Wednesday 12th February 2025
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 7.8 miles away from your postcode
At Mountsorrel Quarry
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.