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Midweek Wildlife Team Who? No previous experience needed! Join a group of enthusiastic volunteers We will give you all the training and working with the Wildlife Trust to instruction you will need. Tools and conserve and protect wildlife in gloves are provided, along with hot Bedfordshire. drinks and even a biscuit, or two! All __________________________________ you have to do is come along with Why? outdoor clothing and stout footwear As a registered charity, volunteers are (or wellies) and waterproofs. Midweek a vital resource for us, helping us carry Remember to bring a packed lunch. Wildlife Team out much-needed work. Also, you can get fit, meet new people and help Bedford conserve wildlife all in the same day! October - December 2019 When? Every Tuesday, meeting at 9.00 a.m. at the Wildlife Trust office, Priory Country Park, Bedford, (or on site at 10.00 a.m. - see details overleaf), Meeting returning to Priory by 5.00 p.m. Point Where? We will be working on a range of nature So how do I get involved? reserves across Bedfordshire, Contact: The Wildlife Trust, Priory including woodlands, wetlands, Country Park, Barkers Lane, grasslands and other sites of interest. Bedford MK41 9DJ 01234 364213, or www.wildlifebcn.org Registered Charity No. 1000412 Andy Fleckney: 07850 887271 Protecting Wildlife Close to Home Richard Knock: 07872 418279 October 2019 November 2019 December 2019 1st SALLOWSPRINGS 5th OLD WARDEN TUNNEL 3rd BLOW’S DOWNS Vegetation cutting, raking and stacking. Scrub and grassland management. Scrub management. Meet at either Meet at Chute Farm, Whipsnade, via Meet where the Greensand Ridge Walk the end of Half Moon Lane, or the the Dunstable Downs visitor centre car crosses the road between Cardington Jeans Way entrance, Dunstable. park access road. and Old Warden. 10th OLD WARDEN TUNNEL 8th FELMERSHAM GRAVEL PITS 12th TOTTERNHOE QUARRY A return to the slopes of the former Grassland management. Meet in the Scrub management in and around the railway cutting. Meet where the nature reserve car park on the road quarry complex. Meet at the end of Greensand Ridge Walk crosses the between Sharnbrook and Felmersham. Knolls View, Totternhoe. Cardington – Old Warden road. th th 15 SHARNBROOK SUMMIT 19 FELMERSHAM GRAVEL PITS 17th TOTTERNHOE QUARRY Scrub management. Meet in Forty Scrub management. Meet in the Our traditional festive scrub Foot Lane, Souldrop, at the junction reserve car park on the road between management task. Meet at the end of that leads to Blackmere Farm. Sharnbrook and Felmersham. Knolls View, Totternhoe. nd th 22 COTTAGE BOTTOM FIELD 26 SEWELL CUTTING 24th NO TASK TODAY! Scrub management. Meet at the Scrub and regrowth management on Unfortunately, there is no task this junction of Southwood Road and the slopes of the former railway. Meet week. at the end of French’s Avenue, Jardine Way, Dunstable. Dunstable. st 31 NO TASK TODAY EITHER! th 29 DROPSHORT MARSH PLEASE NOTE: Unfortunately, there is no task this Cutting and raking. Meet at the In certain circumstances, it is possible that the venue for any of the above tasks can change at week either. Thank you for your help reserve entrance on the B5120, short notice. Please check with the task leader in 2019 and see you next year. Toddington – Houghton Regis road. before setting off. .
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