Events

PORTLAND QUARRIES

Help with the management of Portland habitats

Saturday 23rd September 2023

Downhill Demesne National Trust, Castlerock

Explore the moths of Downhill Demesne with moth and invertebrate enthusiasts Rosie Irwin and Leah Cox (Butterfly Conservation).

Nomansland Common Near Harpenden

Guided walk for Small Copper and other early autumn butterflies with local expert Malcolm Hull

Booking is not required

Foxley Wood (Norfolk Wildlife Trust)

Moth event at Foxley Wood

Courtesy of Norfolk Wildlife trust, an opportunity to see autumn moth species....

Ballinlaggan Near Dulnain Bridge

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

Tuesday 3rd October, 11:00am-3:00pm

Practical conservation work party at Ewyas Harold Meadows, Herefordshire

Graythwaite Finsthwaite

Cutting, clearing and stacking brash

Saturday 7th October, 10am - 4.30pm

AK Bell Library, Perth

Members and volunteers in Scotland are invited to join us for our gathering in Autumn.

Biddestone Village Hall, Yatton Rd, Biddestone, Chippenham SN14 7BZ

Everyone welcome to our annual social event with some great guest speakers

Holme Stinted Pasture Clawthorpe

Removal of gorse, cutting and burning

Mount Fancy BC Reserve

Monthly Work Party

Why not become a 'Fancy Volunteer' and join the practical conservation working party that usually meet on the second Tuesday of each month at Mount Fancy Butterfly Conservation Reserve.

For more details, please visit the 'Fancy Volunteers' blog (click here)

PORTLAND QUARRIES

Help with the management of Portland habitats

WINTER WORK PARTIES  at Fermyn Woods Country Park

From October 2023 to March 2024

Silk Hill Plantation, Salisbury Plain

A search for eggs of the Brown Hairstreak butterfly on Salisbury Plain

Kendal Fell, Kendal.

Planting cowslip and primrose.

Wednesday 18th October, 10:30am-3:00pm

Practical conservation work party at Prees Heath Common, Shropshire

Sluggan near Carrbridge

REMOVAL OF REGENERATING PINES, SLUGGAN, near CARRBRIDGE for Small Blue

Saturday 21st October, 10:00am

Practical conservation work party at Ewyas Harold Meadows, Herefordshire 

AGM at Christchurch Abbeydale, Gloucester GL4 5EQ

Huntly, Aberdeenshire

A work party to improve habitat for the Small Blue butterfly at a recently discovered site near Huntly, Aberdeenshire. 

East Horsley Village Hall, KT24 6QT

All welcome

Work party at Aston Upthorpe Downs, Oxon

Upper Gillbirks, Wakebarrow

Ride clearing and scallop making.  Cutting and stacking scrub pror to planting cowslip

Auchgourish Near Boat of Garten

REMOVAL OF REGENERATING TREES AND BUSHES, AUCHGOURISH, near BOAT OF GARTEN for Dingy Skipper

Work party at Holtspur Bottom, Bucks

Work party at Sands Bank LNR, High Wycombe, Bucks

Work party at Sands Bank LNR, High Wycombe, Bucks

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

Practical conservation work party at Ewyas Harold Meadows, Herefordshire

PORTLAND QUARRIES

Help with the management of Portland habitats

Holme Stinted Pasture, Clawthorpe

Cutting and burning gorse scrub using bow-saws and loppers. Some chain saw work possible