Events

Saturday 30 September and Sunday 1 October 10am - 3.30pm

Prestbury Hill Reserve, Masts section near Cheltenham

Practical conservation work party, reducing scrub to maintain grassland

Meeting place:. Meet at kissing gate entrance to The Masts section by parking area SO993248. what3words: chestnuts.array.splice .  The site is very exposed, steep and uneven.

Lothian moth-ers get together at Gilmerton Walled Garden (near East Linton)

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

Practical conservation work party at Ewyas Harold Meadows, Herefordshire

Graythwaite Finsthwaite

Cutting, clearing and stacking brash

Friday 6 October 10am - 3.30pm

Prestbury Hill Reserve, Masts section near Cheltenham

Practical conservation work party, a follow up to the weekend work party.

Meeting place:. Meet at kissing gate entrance to The Masts section by parking area SO993248. what3words: chestnuts.array.splice .  The site is very exposed, steep and uneven.

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)

Winchester Wood, Princes Risborough, Bucks

Winchester Wood, Bucks, Scrub bashing & education event

PORTLAND QUARRIES

Help with the management of Portland habitats

Easter Drumclair Moss, Limerigg

The Bog Squad will be visiting Easter Drumclair Moss at Limerigg, to remove invasive scrub. Removal of these small conifer trees is vital to protect the habitat from drying out and threatening the specialist species that live on the moss.

Sunday 15 October 10am- 3.30pm

Rough Bank reserve

Practical conservation work party, mainly bramble reduction, scrub and tree thinning.

Meeting place: Meet at the car park at SO914087, about 0.5km south of The Camp village. what3words: dislodge.football.cracker.  There is a fairly long walk to the work site which is on a steep slope.

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

Winchester Wood, Princes Risborough, Bucks

Winchester Wood, Bucks, Scrub bashing & education event

Kendal Fell, Kendal.

Planting cowslip and primrose.

Greenhead Moss, Wishaw

The Bog Squad will be visiting Greenhead Moss near Wishaw, to remove invasive scrub. Removal of these small birch trees is vital to protect the habitat from drying out and threatening the specialist species that live on the moss.

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 

Cerne Abbas Village Hall

Your yearly opportunity to find out the latest news and developments within Dorset Branch

Buttlers Hangings SSSI, West Wycombe, Bucks

Join us on a scrub bash at Buttlers Hangings SSSI

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

Sunday 5th November 10am - 3.30pm (THIS HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM THE 4TH TO THE 5TH NOVEMBER)

Longwood Common, Nottingham Hill between Cheltenham and Winchcombe

Practical conservation work party, scrub clearing to improve habitat for Wall Brown and other butterflies.

Detailed information:

Contact: Serena Meredith 01242 524138, @email

Meeting place: Meet at the parking area on Bushcombe Lane at SO983279. what3words: handbag.glimmers.replays  Nearest postcode GL52 3PN.

You don’t need to book a place but we would appreciate it if you could let the work party leader know by phone or email if you plan on attending. This helps us plan the work, the tools we need to take and can advise you should the event be cancelled at short notice e.g. in the event of poor weather conditions.