Record wildlife on your site; turn a school playing field or recreation ground into a people and wildlife-friendly area; create a pond or manage a meadow to best help wildlife; use social media to promote your activities; and raise money for a community project; all these and more will be covered in Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s
free 'Community Action for Wildlife' day for any people who manage a green space for wildlife, or are interested in doing so.
It takes place on Saturday 26 September, 10am to 3pm at the Green Britain Centre in Swaffham. NWT will be running workshops, talks and a question and answer session with conservation experts.
Participants can take two workshops, which range from recording wildlife, churchyard conservation, managing ponds and grassland habitats to raising funds and promoting your group.
Wildlife and Community Officer for Norfolk Wildlife Trust, Gemma Walker said:
“In Norfolk there are many individuals and groups helping to conserve wildlife in their local community, playing an important role in Norfolk’s Living Landscape. Whether people have (or are thinking about) tidied up a village pond, planted a hedgerow or taken on a green space to manage for wildlife and people, this free day has been organised to bring like-minded people together for an informal day of wildlife-related talks and mini-training workshops. The day is open to all and will hopefully inspire people to continue the great work they are already doing or enthuse people to start a wildlife project in their own local community.”
Due to the limited number of places on this conference there is a maximum of two participants per community group. Booking is essential, by Monday 21 September. Call 01603 598333 or email
[email protected]
The Take Action day is part of a community project run by Norfolk Wildlife Trust called Delivering Living Landscapes, which is working in the Gaywood Valley in west Norfolk and Bure Valley in the Broads to engage local people with their landscape and its wildlife. The project has been generously supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, Essex & Suffolk Water’s Branch Out programme, Broads Authority Sustainable Development Fund, Dow King’s Lynn, The John Jarrold Trust and The Pennycress Trust.