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Connecting people and green spaces
Activities near TW12AR
Found 144 activities
Activity key
- Green Gym
- Conservation Action
- Tree Planting
- Health Walk
- Children and Young People
- Training or workshop
- Food Growing
- Public event or activity
- Wildlife surveying activity
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Friday 23rd October 2026
Bird Survey - Down Lane Park
With The Paddock Practical Volunteers
About 14.3 miles away from your postcode
At Down Lane Park
Activity description
We invite you to join us for our 2026 Bird surveys! This week we will be surveying at Down Lane Park while the Paddock is undergoing construction work What to expect: - A short talk on a bird species or bird-related topic each week. - A guided transect survey of the whole site. - Help with identifying birds visually and by birdsong. - By booking onto multiple sessions gain a deeper understanding of seasonal cycles, and improve your I.D. skills.
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Sunday 25th October 2026
Palace Gate
With Haringey Sunday Volunteers
About 13.1 miles away from your postcode
At Palace Gate Ecological Site
Activity description
Assorted tasks including removal of Laurel and Norway maple seedlings. Sign up here: https://us3.list-manage.com/survey?u=8e0c6f93d2677069e8196b76f&id=0c3211a546&e=8ee217e1a3
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Monday 26th October 2026
Bentley Priory woodland/grassland management
With Biodiversity Action Team (North London)
About 11.6 miles away from your postcode
At Bentley Priory
Activity description
Join us at the historic Bentley Priory! Exact tasks and meeting point TBC
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Tuesday 27th October 2026
Ham Common Woods - Acid grassland management
With Biodiversity Action Team (West London)
About 1.6 miles away from your postcode
At Ham Common Woods
Activity description
We will be working in Ham Common Woods next to St Andrew's Church to maintain a patch of acid grassland, a nationally important and vulnerable habitat. This greenspace is managed for biodiversity by Richmond Council. Lowland acid grassland habitat contains mix of fine-leaved grasses, mosses & lichens growing on acidic, and often sandy soil. Despite being characterised as a nutrient poor habitat, acid grasslands can be species rich (20+ species). Richmond has the largest total area of acid grassland in Greater London. Other local greenspaces containing acid grassland include Barnes Common, East Sheen Common, Bushy Park, and Richmond Park.
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Tuesday 27th October 2026
Camden Green Gym at Belsize Wood LNR
With Camden Green Gym
About 9.4 miles away from your postcode
At Russell Nurseries (Belsize Wood Lnr)
Activity description
Join in for a session of nature conservation and habitat management activities. The Green Gym is a unique way to get fit, transform the environment, meet new people and learn new skills. Each session includes a range of activities, designed to suit all abilities. We provide hot drinks and other refreshments during the tea break.
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Tuesday 27th October 2026
Path reinstallation works at Benhill Road Nature Garden in Camberwell SE5 7QS
With Biodiversity Action Team (South London)
About 9.9 miles away from your postcode
At Benhill Road Nature Garden
Activity description
We return to the Nature Garden to undertake some much needed repair to the paths we installed many years ago, renewing the timber edging and topping up and levelling off / compacting the surfaces. We will also be installing a new self-binding aggregate path around the rear of the main bed, and carrying out ongoing repairs across the garden as required.
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Tuesday 27th October 2026
Tuesday Volunteer Team
With DUW Tuesday Volunteers
About 10.4 miles away from your postcode
At Dulwich Upper Wood
Activity description
Dulwich Upper Wood is managed as a local Nature Reserve and as a recreational/educational resource for the community, the tasks vary with the season, ranging from fencing to coppice management, tree work and glade care.
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Tuesday 27th October 2026
Tower Gardens
With Haringey Conservation Volunteers
About 14.1 miles away from your postcode
At Tower Gardens Park
Activity description
We'll be doing assorted tasks around site and the trail. Please copy the link into your browser to sign up to this session: https://mailchi.mp/c9f820e3608e/october-2026-newsletter-4742202
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Wednesday 28th October 2026
Crane Park (Mill Road) - Maintaining laid hedge
With Biodiversity Action Team (West London)
About 2.0 miles away from your postcode
At Crane Park (Mill Road Entrance)
Activity description
We will be working along the main pathway to maintain and relay sections of hedgerow. We may also continue coppicing work along the banks of the River Crane. Crane Park is managed for biodiversity by Richmond Council and FORCE. Laid hedges require regular maintenance to ensure regrowth remains bushy. We will work to push back suckering growth from the adjacent grassland buffer, prune new growth to promote bushier growth, and re-lay branches back into the existing hedge. Hedge laying is a traditional technique used to create living fences or boundaries by cutting and laying hedge tree stems to promote dense vegetation growth. Whilst hedge laying is still used for this reason across the UK, in urban areas it is also utilised to create dense, biodiverse, green corridors and refugia for animals. Coppicing along the river allows more light into this environment, promoting the growth of soft vegetation (a food source of the translocated water voles!). The root systems of these coppiced trees continue to grow and bind the soil, reducing soil erosion risk along the river. To coppice, is to fell a tree/sapling at its base (or 'stool') which promotes growth of further shoots. The result is multi-stemmed bushier growth. Coppicing is a traditional form of woodland management, with its use dating back to the Stone Age. Coppicing was originally used to ensure source of firewood and timber. Contemporarily, coppicing is primarily used to improve the health and biodiversity of woodland areas.
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Wednesday 28th October 2026
Welsh Harp Wednesdays
With Biodiversity Action Team (North London)
About 8.8 miles away from your postcode
At Welsh Harp Open Space (Barnet)
Activity description
Join our volunteer group at Welsh Harp! We will spend the day doing practical conservation tasks to maintain and improve the biodiversity around the reservoir.