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CHILDHOOD AND NATURE: kickstart a lifelong appreciation of the natural world

The Conservation Volunteers Vice President, Sir David Attenborough once said, “No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced”.…

How players of The National Lottery supported charities through lockdown

TCV Health Development Manager Rachel Hoyes shares with us how a COVID relief grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund has supported TCV groups across the UK during the pandemic and various lockdowns.…

I Dig Trees guest blog: 1,000 new trees form species-rich hedgerow set to boost biodiversity

The CoFarm market garden in Cambridge

Communities and green spaces a public priority in 2021

The events of 2020 have had a profound impact on the lives of people around the world, but new research proves that perhaps the biggest impact of the coronavirus pandemic is closer to home.…

5 ways to get outside and active this winter…

It’s National Obesity Awareness Week, a campaign encouraging the UK to join in a resolution to help improve the nation’s health.…

When the world stopped, nature was there for us

This article originally appeared here on Countryside Jobs Service 2019 was dominated by discussions and action around the ongoing Climate Crisis, with Oxford Languages coining it as its word of the year.…

10 ways to save the jungle beneath your feet

Everything that lives on our planet depends upon the wonderful web of wildlife that fills the earth beneath us.…

Celebrating our community of volunteers

Volunteering is at the heart of all we do here at The Conservation Volunteers.…

Over 1 million trees. And (safely) growing.

1,078,000 trees. That’s the number of trees The Conservation Volunteers’ partnership with OVO Energy celebrated being planted with their I Dig Trees programme in 2019.…

Volunteer heroes – we thank you

All volunteers are heroes – donating their time to another person or cause because they have a passion.…