Events

Fermyn Woods and other locations

Winter work parties 2022-23

Saturday 4th February, 9:30am

Join work parties at Haugh Wood, Herefordshire 

Ballinlaggan Near Dulnain Bridge

REMOVAL OF SCRUB, BALLINLAGGAN, NEAR DULNAIN BRIDGE for butterflies, including Northern Brown Argus

Prestbury Hill - Masts Reserve

Work party to reduce scrub and maintain grassland on the Masts Reserve at Prestbury Hill.

Saturday 4th February

North Muirton, Perth

Join us in Perth to plant trees and wildflowers to help butterflies and moths!

Sunday 5th February, 10:00am

Join a work party at Monkwood, Worcestershire, in partnership with Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

Prestbury Hill - Masts Reserve

Work party to reduce scrub and maintain grassland on the Masts Reserve at Prestbury Hill.

Work party at Aston Upthorpe Downs, Oxon

Join us again for some conservation work helping the Heath Fritillary.

Fanscombe Bank

Fanscombe Bank is one of just ten areas in the UK where the rare Black-veined Moth lives. Hedge saplings are spreading into the open chalk grassland and we need volunteer help to remove them before they make this Black-veined Moth site too shady for the wildflowers they feed on to grow.

Little Breach Reserve near Culmstock

Raking up to do after the brushcutter and also some scrub/small tree cutting.

Work party at Westcott Venture Park, Westcott, Bucks

Tuesday 7th February, 11:00am- 3:00pm

Join a work party at Ewyas Harold Meadows, Herefordshire 

Wednesday 8th February, 10:00am

Join a work party at Grafton Wood, Worcestershire, in partnership with Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

Scrub clearance to maintain habitat for Chequered Skipper.

Wednesday 8th February, 10:00am

Join a work party at the Wyre Forest, Worcestershire, in partnership with Natural England 

Work party at Westcott Venture Park, Westcott, Bucks

Scrub clearance to conserve butterflies on this beautiful site.

Easter Inch Moss, Blackburn, West Lothian

The Bog Squad will be working to control birch woodland encroachment into areas used by the regionally rare Silvery Arches moth at Easter Inch Moss, West Lothian.

Work Party at Rough Bank.

Wakebarrow, Whitbarrow Scar

Ride clearing and scallop making.  Cutting and stacking scrub

Near Nethybridge

PROTECTION OF YOUNG ASPENS FROM DEER BROWSING, CULLACHIE near NETHY BRIDGE, for aspen-feeding moths and other aspen-associated wildlife

Work party on the old railway line between Didcot and Upton.

Prestbury Hill - Masts Reserve

Work party to reduce scrub and maintain grassland on the Masts Reserve at Prestbury Hill.

‘Little Barn’, Grounds Café, Fineshade Wood, Northants, NN17 3BB

Learn how to make a variety of shapes, coils and scrolls and make your own butterfly mounted on a beautiful keepsake card as we celebrate the reintroduction of the Chequered Skipper butterfly to Fineshade Wood.

Surrey & SW London

Online via Zoom

Work party at St George's Barracks, Arncott, Oxon

Holme Stinted Pasture, Clawthorpe

Cutting and burning gorse scrub using bow-saws and loppers.

Wednesday 15th February, 10:00am

Join a work party at Grafton Wood, Worcestershire, in partnership with Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

Thursday 16th February, 10:00am

Join a work party at Monkwood, Worcestershire, in partnership with Worcestershire Wildlife Trust