Events

Visit this unimproved grassland reserve to see the Marsh Fritillary.

Sunday 9th June 9.30am - 1.00pm

Yew Tree Farm Open Day. Moth traps, butterflies and activities for children from nought to ninety.

Cinderford

Walk to see butterfly management work with Forester’s Forest and hopefully see Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary and Wood White.

This is the first open day of the year for our nectar garden - see it in early summer.

Join Butterfly Conservation to learn how to identify and survey for the larval feeding damage of the rare Duke of Burgundy butterfly.

If you only visit one nature event this year then this is it! Butterfly Conservation will be there along with around 50 other organisations.

Two days, 100 acres, hundreds of attractions and tens of thousands of visitors – the Cotswold Show is now one of the most popular on the regional Country Show calendar. Visit our stand to learn about butterflies, moths, caterpillars and how to help them.

A walk through the wood to look for Silver-washed Fritillary, White-letter Hairstreak and Purple Hairstreak.

Big Butterfly Count - we have several Gloucestershire Branch events during the count period.

The July open day for our nectar garden.

Morning training session at the Royal William Hotel, followed by walk on Painswick Beacon.

Celebration of the Big Butterfly Count at this big Sudeley Castle event.

A Butterfly Nectar Garden in August - bring the children and/or grandchildren too. Joint event with Stroud Valleys Project so you can also see and admire a productive walled garden.

The Bill Smyllie section of reserve was officially opened in 1994 and the Masts was purchased later in the year so we are having a picnic and guided walks.

An evening walk to discover the bats, moths and other nocturnal wildlife of Painswick Rococo Garden.

Come and see the variety of moths that we get here in the Cotswolds and learn more about them with Butterfly Conservation’s Back from the Brink team.

A chance to visit this oustanding Butterfly Conservation reserve - even in the unlikely event that the butterflies don't appear it's still worth the trip!

This is the final open day of the year for our nectar garden - see it in late summer.

For this year's AGM we are trying something different!