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Activities near LE56DE
Found 93 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 20th November 2025
Removing Saplings at Bardon Hill
With National Forest Volunteers
About 11.7 miles away from your postcode
At Bardon Hill
Activity description
We'll be removing saplings from the heathland to allow the heather to spread
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Thursday 20th November 2025
Milebrook Hall Community Garden
With Milebrook Hall Food Growing
About 41.2 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 20th November 2025
Kitwell National Grid Conservation Session
With Kitwell National Grid
About 41.6 miles away from your postcode
At Kitwell Substation
Activity description
Come and spend a rewarding day outdoors learning practical conservation skills. Together we'll be creating meadows, building habitats, managing woodland areas and getting hands on with some mini construction- all while helping nature thrive at Kitwell Substation. This is a great opportunity to: - Learn new green skills and gain experience in conservation. - Reconnect with nature and enjoy time in fresh air. - Meet like-minded people and be a part of a supportive, friendly group. No prior experience needed- just bring your enthusiasm, sturdy footwear and a love of the outdoors!
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Friday 21st November 2025
Rowheath Pavilion Community Garden
With Rowheath Pavilion Green Gym
About 39.0 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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Friday 21st November 2025
Bird Song Walk
With Rowheath Pavilion Green Gym
About 39.0 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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Friday 21st November 2025
Grass cutting and raking
With
About 41.6 miles away from your postcode
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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Saturday 22nd November 2025
Coppicing Woodfuel Day
With Community Woodfuel Volunteers
About 18.2 miles away from your postcode
At
Activity description
This is a great opportunity for you to learn about the craft of coppicing, and it also to helps maintain and manage local woodlands for people and nature over the coming years. We'll also be making dead hedges from the cut branches too, providing valuable habitat. You are also welcome to take away the logs you cut for your wood burner if you wish.
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Monday 24th November 2025
Abbey Pumping Station Gardening Group
With Leicester Food Growing
About 3.2 miles away from your postcode
At Abbey Pumping Station Museum Grounds
Activity description
Come and join this friendly regular group, which meets weekly to do gardening at the beautiful Abbey Pumping Station. Our group grows it's own vegetables on our allotment (plenty of raised beds for those with mobility issues) and also flowers for the on site sensory "Forget-Me-Not Garden". Tea, biscuits and your chosen level of social interaction are part of our regular time each week :)
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Monday 24th November 2025
Holloway Hall Community Garden
With Ley Hill Green Gym
About 40.6 miles away from your postcode
At Ley Hill Green Gym
Activity description
Grow your own food and make new friends at our lovely garden opposite Holloway Hall Community Centre. We meet at Ley Hill every Monday to do some gentle gardening work and sow, grow, and enjoy tasty fresh produce. There are numerous fruit shrubs here which leads to some tasty jams and deserts in the late summer. Our sites have raised beds which are accessible and manageable. We also have a number of benches within the garden where you can enjoy your brew and listen to bird song.
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Tuesday 25th November 2025
Practical selective vegetation management
With TCV Leicester Volunteers
About 7.8 miles away from your postcode
At Mountsorrel Quarry
Activity description
Starting our practical conservation work at the Mountsorrel (Tarmac) Quarry site. Project work is being carried for the Environmental Restoration Team. Site 4 or Broad Hill is where we will start, cutting and removing excess gorse and buddleia to help maintain the establishing grass heathland 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 lovely views on a clear day.