Found 88 activities
Saturday 27th April 2024
With Haringey Conservation Volunteers
About 42.4 miles away from your postcode
At Railway Fields
All levels welcome. Activity description: Introduction to common bird songs Guided walk to listen to bird songs
Saturday 27th April 2024
With The Paddock Volunteers
About 42.5 miles away from your postcode
At The Paddock Community Nature Park
Learn to ID local species at our weekly survey at The Paddock. All levels and families are welcome. We invite you to join us at the Paddock for our weekly survey in 2024! Whether you are an expert or complete beginner this will be a chance to get outdoors and explore the wildlife on your doorstep. What to expect: - A short talk on local species ID topic each week. - A guided transect survey of the site. -The data collected will help us develop the Paddock into a Local Nature Reserve and increase biodiversity. - By booking onto multiple sessions you'll gain a deeper understanding of seasonal cycles, and improve your I.D. skills. Pre-booking is essential, book now to confirm a place. Please be aware Eventbrite booking closes one day before each surveying event at 5pm. If you have to cancel your place for any reason, please get in touch via thepaddock@tcv.org.uk or by the contact numbers below to let us know.
Saturday 27th April 2024
With Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park Conservation Volunteers
About 49.6 miles away from your postcode
At Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park
Join our regular Saturday (every other weekend) conservation workdays at the Ecology Park and help the wardens carry out vital management work in the park's different habitats - marsh, meadow, lakes, ponds, shingle beach and woodland. Places are limited to 10. You must book a place, for free, via gpep@tcv.org.uk. The first time you volunteer, we will ask you to fill out a TCV Volunteer Welfare Form (or we can email this to you in advance if you prefer). You will be working as part of a volunteer team with the park wardens, carrying out tasks such as pond clearing, reed cutting, meadow cutting, coppicing (cutting smaller tree stems), digging and weeding. You don't need any previous experience and we provide tools and gloves (and wellies or waders if needed). We only use hand tools so you will get some great experience in the more traditional ways of managing habitats. The wardens will supply tea, coffee and the essential biscuits but please bring along a packed lunch. Wear old clothes, weather appropriate but including long sleeves and trousers, and strong footwear (e.g. walking boots or shoes). We meet at the gatehouse (the wooden building on the river) for a 10am start (there is a health and safety chat before we start the work which all volunteers need to hear).
Sunday 28th April 2024
With Haringey Sunday Volunteers
About 41.8 miles away from your postcode
At Shepherds Hill Gardens
Apologies, this session has been cancelled.
Tuesday 30th April 2024
With Kingsbrook and Cauldwell Community Food Growing
About 2.1 miles away from your postcode
At Bunyan Sports and Fitness Centre
Join our new community food growing project! Learn new skills, meet new people, grow your own food! All tools and instruction will be provided and no previous experience is required to take part. Our first session will be on Tuesday 13th February 2024 and sessions will then run every Tuesday throughout the year from 10.45am until 1.30pm. Please do wear suitable outdoor clothing and sturdy enclosed footwear. Do bring your own gardening gloves if you have some. We meet at 10.45am in front of the Bunyan Sports Centre on Mile Road, Bedford. For further information call Jen on 07740 899633 or email Jennifer.zwetsloot@tcv.org.uk
Tuesday 30th April 2024
With Network Rail
About 19.1 miles away from your postcode
At Great Stukeley Sssi
This huge site is a SSSI and of value for its particular ecology. It needs careful management to stop it covering over in scrub and bramble, and to encourage the correct conditions for wildflowers and grasses. As part of this we will be strimming off the dense, tough grass cover to lower soil nutrients and allow the slower growing grasses and plants to flourish.
Tuesday 30th April 2024
With Haringey Conservation Volunteers
About 42.0 miles away from your postcode
At Parkland Walk (Milton Park)
Weâll be bashing laurel on the bankside, adding to deadhedges and continuing our woven hurdles. Please sign up via the link: https://mailchi.mp/fefba35aa5ba/april-2024-newsletter-12714671
Tuesday 30th April 2024
With Camden Green Gym
About 44.2 miles away from your postcode
At Baynes Street Canal Side Garden
Our tasks for the day will be to give this little canal side wildlife refuge a little summer maintenance by digging out any invasive plants to keep it an open sunny grassland meadow bank and clearing back the paths The Green Gym̨̉ is a unique way to get fit, transform the environment, meet new people and learn new skills. Each day starts with a warm up and finishes with a cool down before and after a range of light to vigorous activities, designed to suit all abilities.
Tuesday 30th April 2024
With Biodiversity Action Team (South London)
About 48.0 miles away from your postcode
At Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
Exciting new development for the Park in 2024! We will be working with LB Lambeth and the Friends of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens to install a biodiversity garden in an underused corner of the park. Firstly we will be installing recycled plastic revetment to protect existing structures, then we will be bringing in many tons of topsoil to create a series of mounded, flowing planting beds throughout the garden. We will be mulching the beds areas and then installing landscape edging around them. For the final part of our Phase 1 works we will be installing new topsoil and turf throughout the central lawn area of the garden, and planting a diverse range of flowering plants and shrubs in the beds to attract wildlife.
Tuesday 30th April 2024
With Richmond Weekday Projects
About 49.9 miles away from your postcode
At Tcv Tool Shed
No regular volunteer session today . When the weather is dry and it is NOT raining, I am running a half day of tool maintenance, and tidy up of our tool shed in preparation for the busy season. We will be cleaning and sharpening tools and cut vegetation around the tool shed. Please check out alternatives such as the Richmond Green Gym or Isleworth Green Gym. Apologies for any inconvenience.