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WOODLANDS FARM - BEE SURVEY SEASON GETS UNDERWAYAll welcome ....
The signs of spring are appearing, which is lovely after a rather cold and wet winter. Another sign of spring is the start of the bee surveys!
We have the first few months dates for you, so pop them in your diaries and let me know if you can join us. As with previous years the surveys always start at 2pm in the farmyard,
Monday 10th March
Monday 28th April
Monday 19th May.
Hopefully see you then.
Hannah Ricketts
Education Officer
<education@thewoodlandsfarmtrust.org>
The Woodlands Farm Trust
331 Shooters Hill
Welling
DA16 3RP
Tel: 020 8319 8900
CALLING BUTTERFLY ENTHUSIASTSUK Butterfly Recorders' Meeting - open to anyone interested in butterflies.
Saturday 29 March 2025 from 10am to 1pm.
Zoom event. Advance booking required:
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There will be the usual update on the Butterflies for the New Millennium (BNM) recording scheme and the official 2024 butterfly population trends from the UKBMS network will be revealed. In addition to this there are two or three talks by guest speakers.
More backgrond, draft programme and video of 2024 meeting available for viewing here:
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UK Butterfly Recorders' Meeting
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Butterfly Conservation holds an annual meeting for butterfly recorders in the UK. These meetings provide a great opportunity to hear about progress with the Butterflies for the New Millennium (BNM) re...
JOIN NORTH WEST KENT COUNTRYSIDE PARTNERSHIP FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION WORK AT ST. MARY'S CHURCH, OLD BEXLEY ......Wednesday 19th March – St Mary’s Churchyard, Manor Road, Bexley, DA5 3LY
We will be cutting the grass on site and raking. Brushcutter operators will be needed.
Led by: Lucy Sawyer-Boyd (07809334071)
Meeting Time and Place: 9am at the yard in Hall Place, otherwise 10am if meeting at the churchyard (black gates at end of Manor Road, there is limited parking on site). There are no facilities on site.
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Please remember to bring with you; suitable clothes for the weather conditions, a packed lunch and sturdy footwear. We will supply all other equipment, gloves and safety equipment and also hot drinks and biscuits throughout the day.
The work will be led by a NWKCP member of staff who will be more than happy to answer any questions that you have throughout the day. A health and safety talk will also be given at the beginning of each project. If you are planning to come out on a project for the first time this month then please let us know beforehand which day that will be.
We write a risk assessment for each task day, and a copy of this will be brought to the site and available for you to read if you wish.
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LESNES TEAM SEEKS HELP WITH REGULAR BIRD, BUTTERFLY AND BUMBLEBEE COUNTS, TO HELP PRODUCE POPULATION ESTIMATES.Could you spare a little time to translate your wildlife interests into useful data ? - see below.
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Category Archives: Land sales
Open spaces sell-off – is Council trying to wrong-foot campaigners and take advantage of ‘summer lull’?
Decisions in principle to sell some sites – including Old Farm Park – to be taken as early as this week, as process moves faster than expected for 5 of Bexley’s parks and green spaces. Campaigners urged to attend meeting. … Continue reading
Support Old Farm Park / anti sell-offs campaign at Weds 15th Council meeting
Petition to halt Old Farm Park sell-off plan goes to full Council meeting on July 15th. Please show your support! The campaign to save open spaces from sell-off by the Council continues. Old Farm Park is ‘the big one’, in … Continue reading
Bexley Council will still have your concerns at heart after you’re no longer with us ………
It’s good to know Bexley Council will continue to studiously pay attention to our interests once we’re no longer alive, as implied by this banner at Erith Cemetery, but ‘listening to you, working for you’ is, perhaps, somewhat beyond even … Continue reading
SOGS campaign seeks tree info and protection plans for threatened sites
The Save our Green Spaces Campaign group has submitted a Freedom of Information Request to Bexley Council (set out below) , asking for details of the many trees that occur on sites that the Council is considering for sale, and … Continue reading
Open Spaces campaign gathers momentum, now has contact e-mail
Mandy Stevens reports from the April meeting of the Save Our Green Spaces Campaign. The group now has a contact e-mail address which is saveourgreenspaces11@gmail.com * News Shopper had given some coverage to the campaign and signposted the Old Farm Park … Continue reading
Bexley Council’s Open Space Sell Off. The sites at risk
Here are the 27 sites at risk.
Report of BNEF-hosted open spaces campaign meeting
There was a good turnout of around 20 people to the first meeting of the Save Our Green Spaces Campaign last Thursday (March 19th) in Bexley Library, hosted by Bexley Natural Environment Forum (the umbrella group for ‘Friends’ of parks … Continue reading
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Save Old Manor Way Park – event this Saturday
Save Old Manor Way playground have an event this Saturday. This is their Facebook post. Note the attendance of the local Conservative MP who originally washed his hands of the issue. The protests by a number of groups are making … Continue reading
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Petitions to save Bexley Parks at change.org
As opposition to the Conservatives plans to sell off public parks, there are now two petitions at change.org asking the Council not to sell any of our green spaces. One petition is sponsored by the Green Party: https://www.change.org/p/london-borough-of-bexley-council-protect-bexley-s-council-owned-parks-and-green-spaces-from-sell-off The other … Continue reading
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