TCV
Connecting people and green spaces
Activities near LE56DE
Found 90 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 18th February 2025
Habitat Management at Poppy Woods
With National Forest Volunteers
About 21.3 miles away from your postcode
At Poppy Wood
Activity description
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
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Tuesday 18th February 2025
Kingsbrook and Cauldwell Community Allotment
With Kingsbrook and Cauldwell Community Food Growing
About 43.6 miles away from your postcode
At Bunyan Sports and Fitness Centre
Activity description
Join us on the community allotment and learn how to grow your own food!
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Wednesday 19th February 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
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
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Wednesday 19th February 2025
Queen Elizabeth Community Gardens
With Queen Elizabeth Hospital Green Gym
About 38.1 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 19th February 2025
Nature and Wildlife Walks
With Queen Elizabeth Hospital Green Gym
About 38.1 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 19th February 2025
Chatham Place Community Garden
With Chatham Place Green Gym
About 40.1 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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Thursday 20th February 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
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
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Thursday 20th February 2025
Bardon Hill Woodland Management
With National Forest Volunteers
About 11.7 miles away from your postcode
At Bardon Hill
Activity description
We'll be thinning out Birch trees from the maturing Oak woodland up on the hill
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Thursday 20th February 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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Friday 21st February 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.
