Events

Surrey/Sussex border

Selected Wednesdays
Please see: Surrey Work Parties

Guildford-Dorking

North Downs Conservation Group
Please see: Surrey Work Parties

Oaken Wood, Chiddingfold

1st Thursdays, Oct-Apr
Please see: Surrey Work Parties

Berrycroft Hub, Ashbury, Oxon, SN6 8LX

A free introduction to Butterfly and Moth Identification, Surveying & Recording

Grid Reference: TF128681

Come and join the work party in the Limewoods

Thursday 27th February 2020

Median Farm, Meadows Road, Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire

Light scrub and bramble removal

Meet other BC members from the Cheltenham area - and further afield - for updates, gossip, cakes and excellent presentations.

Prestbury Hill - The Masts Reserve

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

SCEEC, Milton Park, Oxon, OX14 4TE

A free introduction to Butterfly and Moth Identification, Surveying & Recording

Brown Hairstreak egg hunt at Bernwood Meadows, Bucks.

Ruishton Village Hall, Cheats Road, Ruishton, Taunton TA3 5JD

This is our annual get-together, where we have the opportunity to catch up with each other and to show photos of our recent butterfly adventures and holidays.

Holyrood Park, Edinburgh

Edinburgh's Holyrood Park is home to a large number of butterfly species - join us on this volunteer work party to help conserve them.

Yatts Farm Near Pickering SE811884 post code YO18 8JW

Practical conservation and management of Yatts Farm

Sunday 1st March 2020

Alun valley, Vale of Glamorgan

Monday 2nd March

Magdalen Hill Down East Entrance

Practical conservation tasks to be carried out. Meet details: Magdalen Hill Down, East entrance: 10am - 4pm. Meet in the car park at the top of the track between the Stonemasons and Morn Hill Cemetery SO21 1HE (SU 512 295)

St John’s Scout Hall, behind Newtownbreda Presbyterian Church off the Knockbreda Road in Belfast.

Farrer's Allotment Whitbarrow Scar

Join a group of volunteers to improve and extend the habitat at this site

Blakeney Scout Hut HQ

‘Wandering through Northern Greece’ 

An illustrated talk by Kath Clayton

Thursday 5th March 2020

Carmarthenshire site to be confirmed - please contact us

Light scrub and bramble removal. Joint event with WTSWW. Contact Richard Smith for details and meeting point

Prestbury Hill - The Masts Reserve

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

Wednesday 6th March

Bentley Station Meadows

Practical conservation tasks to be carried out. Meet details: 

10am - 3pm: Park in the pay & display Station car park, and walk across the railway track to the meadow, SU 792 432. Alternatively, park in the free Forestry Commission car park off Gravel Hill Road SU 802 433, and walk through the FC to the reserve.

Terrace Room, Islip Village Hall, Church Lane, Ispli, Oxon, OX5 2TA

A free introduction to Butterfly and Moth Identification, Surveying & Recording

Work Party at Rough Bank - mainly scrub and tree thinning.

Blackrock Quarry, Clydach SO215125

Work task in conjunction with Usk Conservation and Environment Group, clearing cotoneaster from this important lepidoptera site with superb views.

Fermyn Woods, Northants

Winter Work Party at Fermyn Woods on Sunday 8th March 2020

Extra Work Party Wart Barrow Allithwaite

Join a group of volunteers to improve and extend the habitat on Wart Barrow

Abronhill, Cumbernauld

Scrub clearance at Abronhill in Cumbernauld with the Bog Squad to help improve protect valuable stored carbon and peatland habitat.

Night-time hunt for Lunar Yellow Underwing moth caterpillars on the Tentsmuir NNR in Fife. 

Thursday 12th March 2020

Carmarthenshire site to be confirmed - please contact us

Light scrub and bramble removal. Joint event with WTSWW. Contact Richard Smith for details and meeting point

Ipswich Road United Reform Church

Norfolk’s Urban Peregrines and Sculthorpe Reserve 

An illustrated talk by Zoe Smith of the Hawk and Owl Trust.