Conservation volunteering activities on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
If you love being outside and active, if you enjoy nature and want to help the environment, if you like being part of a team and making a difference in your area, why don’t you join us?
We have conservation days every Monday, Tuesday and Friday, mainly around the Hastings, Rother and Wealden area. There are a range of tasks, such as woodland management, pond maintenance, footpath clearance and litter picking… all helping to make our local green spaces nicer for everyone, to improve the environment, and to help you to connect with nature and boost health and wellbeing.
Sessions are fun, free and friendly, and tasks can be adapted for different levels of ability or knowledge. You don’t need to have previous experience and you don’t need to bring anything, just wear rough clothing and sturdy footwear. We’ll bring the tools and equipment, the gloves and the guidance, and there will be support and training for each type of activity. And free tea and coffee!
Booking required so we can make sure we have enough equipment, please contact: carrie.edmonds@tcv.org.uk / 07764 655609
Programme
- Mondays: Ninfield
Conservation days at South Wood on Potman’s Lane (adjacent to Ninfield National Grid) or occasionally other various Rother/Hastings sites. Minibus pick up from Fearon Road at 9.30am or meet on site; approx finish time 3pm.
- Tuesdays: Marsham Valley
Installing leaky dams from Fairlight to Pett.
Leaky dams are a flood management measure to slow down water when there has been torrential rain to reduce the sudden impact downstream that can cause flooding. They are built from natural materials and there will be many of them along small watercourses, creating pools and puddles where they won’t do any damage.
Minibus from 9.30, approx finish time 3pm.
- Wednesdays: Various Biodiversity Action Team days in Hastings/Rother on some Wednesdays according to sites and activities.
Locations often finalised at short notice, please get in touch.
- Fridays: Various Woodland Trust sites
Conservation days at various Hastings/Rother sites including Brede High Woods every other week. Leave Fearon Road at 9.30am for a 10am start on site.
Other links:
- East Sussex Health Walks – free one hour group walks across the county
- 123 Walks – free maps for one, two and three mile self-led nature walks
Pictures
Hastings Green Gyms:
Healthy horticulture at the Hastings Centre on Wednesdays, creating and looking after a productive vegetable patch and taking care of the wildlife hedge. Or healthy conservation at the Conquest Hospital on Thursdays – in and around the lake, clearing overgrown reedmace that had taken over the water, opening up the area for more birds, fish and insects.
Cuckoo Trail Activity Mornings: Tues/Weds/Thurs (July 2024-March 2025)
Cuckoo Trail craft sessions – Dec 2024/Jan 2025
Horam Green Gym: July 2024-July 2025
South Wood, Potman’s Lane, Ninfield: Biodiversity partnership with National Grid
Join in, feel good!
Locations are sometimes changed at short notice as the programme needs to be flexible for weather, local habitat conditions or site requirements. Please get in touch with Carrie to confirm site details and to book your spot on the minibus.
Further information
Senior Project Officer Carrie Edmonds: carrie.edmonds@tcv.org.uk / 07764 655609
Follow us on Facebook.
We also run the extensive East Sussex Health Walks programme and the 123 Walks project.
TCV, Blacklands Business Centre, 11-15 Fearon Road, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 2EP
Office tel: 01424 444675
Previous activities
Funders and partners
The Biodiversity Action Team’s current programme is supported by and delivered in partnership with the following organisations:
- Court Lodge Farm
- National Grid
- Wealden District Council
- High Weald AONB Unit
- Ore Community Land Trust / Speckled Wood
- St Helen’s Wood
- The Woodland Trust