Nature in Mind Activities Programme February - March How to get involved

You can apply to Nature in Mind if you are over 18, feel you are excluded or experience mental health difficulties such as depression or anxiety, and would find it difficult to access local heritage and nature sites without support. You do not need a medical diagnosis.

To take part in Nature in Mind ask your support worker, health professional, or doctor to complete our referral form, or you can complete it yourself if you wish.

e: [email protected] t: 0115 970 9591 w: www.frameworkha.org/natureinmind (for referral form)

Once we have received your completed referral form we will contact you by letter to let you know that you have been accepted and are now free to book onto activities.

Conservation Activities: Making a difference to natural heritage.

What is Nature in Mind? British Wildlife is under threat and needs all the support it can get. Conservation activities offer us the chance to help look after local Nature in Mind is a Framework service for green spaces and make them better for both wildlife and people. adults which draws on the unique capacity Some organisations run free events for Nature in Mind and the of heritage and nature to restore and improve conservation activities offer an opportunity to give something back. mental and physical health.

Evidence shows that spending time in heritage Activities take place at a gentle pace with regular breaks for rest and a and natural environments can: hot drink. They can help you develop new skills such as learning to use tools and how certain wildlife areas are looked after and why. Activities • Reduce stress and anxiety may include trimming back vegetation, controlling invasive species, • Help reduce the need for medication planting, and managing hedgerows. Why not give it a go and feel like • Reduce levels of depression you are making a difference to natural heritage. • Help overcome isolation and social exclusion • Improve physical health • Improve mood and self esteem.

Nature in Mind provides varied opportunities and activities related to heritage and nature in small, supportive groups. See inside for our activities.

01 02 To book on an activity or to request a referral form please Ground Rules contact Nature in Mind. See contact details on the back page. When attending an activity please abide by the following ground rules that were decided by Nature in Mind participants. Some of our trips leave from Central Office, Val Roberts House. The full address is Val Roberts House, 25 Gregory • You must not bring drugs or alcohol along to our activities Boulevard, , NG7 6NX • If you arrive under the influence of drugs or alcohol, you will be asked to leave It is important to book onto any activity that you want to • Please respect other people’s personal space attend. Please make your own way to the meeting point. • There are certain words that some people find offensive. Please We cannot refund your travel expenses. Please let us don’t swear at others and try to moderate your language around know if you are booked on an activity and cannot attend other people – somebody else may want your place. • The Nature in Mind service is used by people with many different backgrounds, please be respectful of others’ beliefs and cultural differences Please wear suitable clothing (including waterproofs) • Be aware that others have different levels of ability and might and sturdy footwear. We have some walking boots and struggle occasionally, try to be understanding and support others waterproofs you can borrow – please let us know in where possible advance if you need these. • If a member of staff asks you to do something (usually related to health and safety) please do it. Nature in Mind promises not to Please aim to arrive in good time to start the activity. make unreasonable requests of its participants The finish time is approximate and may vary depending • Please use safety gear and protective clothing, such as cycle on traffic conditions and other factors. helmets, if we ask you to. We have a legal responsibility to advise you of safety issues when we are doing activities outdoors. Please let us know if your contact details change or you Do take a moment to think about what these rules mean in practice. would prefer not to be on our mailing list. For example, to respect someone’s personal space means that if they do not want to give you their mobile number or meet you alone. You All activities are FREE but please pay for your own bus, should accept this and not keep trying to persuade them. tram or train fares unless otherwise indicated. Minibus trips are usually free.

At some events there is a suggested donation of £1 for a meal. You can still attend the activity and have a meal if you cannot afford to pay.

03 04 Nature in Mind February Activities Nature in Mind February Activities Monday 3rd February Monday 3rd February Wednesday 5th February Wednesday 5th February Country Estate Walk: Arboretum Walk Gunthorpe Lock Origins and Meanings of Bradgate Country Park Local Names Join us for a gentle stroll around Gunthorpe Lock in the of Nottingham’s oldest public park as Gunthorpe is one of the largest locks Come along and find out the Join volunteer walk leader, Alan on the which was once a Davies for this three and a half mile we experience the nature on our origins and meanings of surnames doorstep. Slow pace, some slopes. major trading route. It’s still possible common to Nottingham and walk starting in the pretty village to see commercial barges, but now of Newton Linford in Leicestershire. surrounding areas. Local researcher, The Arboretum Café at it’s better known for great waterway Paul Cullen, will be joining us to From here we enter the wooded walks. In partnership with the Canal deer park of Bradgate taking the Waverley Street entrance tell us the history behind the most and River Trust we will focus on the common surnames of our area and easy hill up to the War Memorial and cleaning of the Lock fixtures and the viewpoint at Old John’s Tower. 1.30pm - 2.30pm he has also offered to explain the fittings and controlling vegetation meanings of our surnames. along the paths. From there we descend to the new Hot drinks will be provided. Visitors’ Centre and on our return Let us know if you would like to know Villager bus at bus stop the history of your surname even journey pass the remains of a manor C11 on Canal Street (outside the house where a Queen of if you are not able to attend the th Crown Court) for 10am once lived. This is an easy walk on Tuesday 4 February session. good paths and trails. Allotment - Spring 10.15am - 4pm The Burrow, 40 Forest Road West, Vegetables Sowing and Nottingham NG7 4EQ Val Roberts House, 25 Gregory Public transport – please pay your Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6NX Planting own fare. Please don’t buy a Robin 11am - 2pm Hood ticket as we will be buying 10am - 4pm Join us for a range of tasks, as well tickets on the bus. as a cup of tea, on our friendly and Drinks and hot food will be provided. Please bring some lunch. welcoming allotment site. Help Please bring lunch. Hot drink and Minibus will be provided. us to grow a variety of fruit and biscuits will be provided. vegetables, from sowing to harvest, th cook with produce and share a meal Tuesday 4 February th whilst making friends and picking up Thursday 6 February Nest Boxes at the new skills. Cook and Eat - Pancakes around the world Arboretum It’s time to get the last of the garlic Try something different on Shrove Tuesday (25th Feb) other than our traditional At today’s session we will be working bulbs planted and sow our broad pancake with sugar and lemon. Get inspired by finding out how people around with Park Ranger, Simon Jenkins beans as the growing season starts. the world celebrate International Pancake Day and try out some recipes from to build nest boxes for both birds different continents. and bats. Some of the boxes will St Ann’s Allotment, Ransom Road be situated around the park while All dishes will be plant-based and dairy free and some will be gluten free. others can be taken home. All 10.30am - 2pm Please contact us if you have any concerns regarding food intolerances or materials and tools are provided. allergies. Drinks, snacks and lunch will be Arboretum Band Stand provided. Suggested donation £1. The Burrow, 40 Forest Road West, Nottingham NG7 4EQ

10am - 2pm 10am - 2pm

Please bring some lunch. Hot drinks Drinks and hot food will be provided. will be provided.

05 06 Nature in Mind February Activities Nature in Mind February Activities Friday 7th February Friday 7th February Tuesday 11th February Tuesday 11th February Conservation at Allotment - Hand Bushcraft Skills at Allotment - Setting up a Attenborough Nature Drumming Sherwood Pines Willow Bed Reserve Join us for a range of tasks, as well Join Forestry Commission Rangers Join us for a range of tasks, as well Today we’ll be joining the Open as a cup of tea, on our friendly and Bob and Karina for bushcraft around as a cup of tea, on our friendly and Door group and travelling out welcoming allotment site. Help the camp fire. Have ago at fire welcoming allotment site. Help to this beautiful nature reserve, us to grow a variety of fruit and lighting without matches as well us to grow a variety of fruit and once a gravel quarry, to work with vegetables, from sowing to harvest, as some green woodworking in a vegetables, from sowing to harvest, Wildlife Trust cook with produce and share a meal secluded forest setting. Relaxed fun, cook with produce and share a meal helping to improve natural heritage whilst making friends and picking up no experience necessary. whilst making friends and picking up at Attenborough in order to benefit new skills. new skills. wildlife and people. Activities will be Val Roberts House, 25 Gregory at a gentle pace with plenty of time Find out about African Djembe Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6NX Michael (Ecoworks) will be leading to observe any interesting wildlife. drums and rhythms, join the drum us in setting up a willow bed on our circle, shake percussion or sit back 10am - 4pm allotment to benefit the wildlife and 10am - 4pm and enjoy the beats provide us with wood to coppice for Please bring some lunch. crafts and kindling. Indigo bus stop on Friar Lane St Ann’s Allotment, Ransom Road Minibus will be provided. St Ann’s Allotment, Ransom Road Public transport – please pay your 10.30am - 2pm Wednesday 12th February 10.30am - 2pm own fare. A Robin Hood ticket (£5.10) Newstead Bike Ride can be used all day on buses and Drinks, snacks and lunch will be trams. provided. Suggested donation £1. Drinks, snacks and lunch will be A group ride for confident cyclists provided. Suggested donation £1. starting from Bullwell Community Please bring some lunch. Garden and following national cycle th Monday 10 February route 6 for a ride to Newstead Abbey, Monday 10th February Arboretum Walk in North Nottinghamshire. We’ll be BFF Woodthorpe Park cycling along old railway lines and Join us for a gentle stroll around passing Mill Lakes, , and Linby Join Nature in Mind and Best Foot Nottingham’s oldest public park as before arriving at Newstead Abbey Forward walk leaders on a gentle the home of Lord Byron. This ride is th we experience the nature on our stroll around this 19 Century Grade II doorstep. Slow pace, some slopes relatively flat and will be 15 miles listed manor which sits amidst a mix in total. of landscapes. Two mile walk. 1.30pm - 2.30pm Staff will speak with all participants Bus stop P2 on Lower Parliament The Arboretum Café at regarding their cycling confidence Street at 10am Waverley Street entrance when booking on this event.

Alternatively make your own way Hot drinks will be provided. Bikes and helmets provided. to Sherwood Community Centre, Road NG5 3FN - 10.15am Bus stop T1 on Milton Street for bus 17 10am - 12pm 10am - 3pm Smoking cigarettes or e-cigarettes is not permitted on Health Walks. Please bring your own lunch and a 07 water bottle. 08 Nature in Mind February Activities Nature in Mind February Activities th Thursday 13th February Thursday 13 February Friday 14th February Coal to Nature: Bestwood Sherwood Observatory Conservation at Country Park Sherwood Observatory is the Clifton Grove home of the Mansfield and Sutton Bestwood has a rich and diverse Join Park Ranger, Simon Jenkins at Astronomical Society and is situated history from medieval hunting this beautiful Nature Reserve with in Sutton-in-Ashfield overlooking the forest to large scale coal mining adjacent woodland. Our task today town of Mansfield. The Observatory in the 19th Century. The old spoil is to remove sycamore saplings that building was built by the founders of heap is now a haven for a wealth of will give native trees more light and the society and was opened in 1986. wildlife including many orchids and space to grow. Work will take place butterflies in the summer. at a gentle pace with plenty of time Our evening will consist of an for breaks. This walk is three miles with slopes. interactive talk on the history of the observatory, the site itself and plans We will be using Robin Hood ticket Bus stop B2 on Beastmarket Hill at for the future. Also the wonders of (£5.10) today as we will be taking a 10.10am (bus 1 is at 10.20am) NCT bus to the park and returning the universe including black holes, search for alien life forms and the by tram. 10.10am - 3.30pm future of space travel. Plus a chance for stargazing through the 24’’ Bus stop P5 on Parliament Street Please bring some lunch. Hot drinks Newtonian telescope (Clear skies at 10.30am (bus 89 leaves at and biscuits will be provided. 10.40am) permitting). Public transport - please pay your Val Roberts House, 25 Gregory 10.30am - 3pm own fare. Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6NX Public transport – please pay your own fare. Please bring some lunch. 6.15pm - 9.30pm Hot drinks and a minibus will be Thursday 13th February provided. Permaculture Talk Friday 14th February

Paul Paine (Ecoworks) will be leading Allotment - Signs of Spring a session explaining permaculture and how we can design systems Join us for a range of tasks, as well as a cup of tea, on our friendly and to meet our own needs whilst welcoming allotment site. Help us to grow a variety of fruit and vegetables, enhancing biodiversity, reducing from sowing to harvest, cook with produce and share a meal whilst making our impact on the planet and friends and picking up new skills. creating a fairer world for us all. The first signs of spring are a welcome sight after winter. We’ll be looking The Burrow, 40 Forest Road West, for trees budding, bulbs shooting, birds nesting whilst listening out for the Nottingham NG7 4EQ birdsong.

11am - 2pm St Ann’s Allotment, Ransom Road

Drinks and hot food will be provided. 10.30am - 2pm

Drinks, snacks and lunch provided. Suggested donation of £1.

09 10 Nature in Mind February Activities Nature in Mind February Activities Monday 17th February Monday 17th February Friday 21st February Monday 24th February Arboretum Short Walk Canal and River Walk Allotment: Wash-Stands Nature in Mind Meeting for Hands and Vegetables Join us for a gentle stroll around Enjoy a tranquil stroll along two of A chance for you to come and have Nottingham’s oldest public park Nottingham’s heritage waterways, Join us for a range of tasks, as well your say about Nature in Mind. Join as we experience the nature on namely the Nottingham and Beeston as a cup of tea, on our friendly and us for an informal meeting where you our doorstep. Slow pace and some Canal and the River Trent. Alighting welcoming allotment site. Help can tell us what you like and what slopes. the tram at Nottingham University us to grow a variety of fruit and you don’t – we’re always interested in we’ll trace the canal back into the vegetables, from sowing to harvest, your feedback. Staff will also be filling The Arboretum Café at city centre and out again as it cook with produce and share a meal in forms with you towards completing Waverley Street entrance merges with the River Trent. whilst making friends and picking up the Nature in Mind evaluation for our new skills. funders. 1.30pm - 2.30pm We’ll follow the Trent along the embankment before looping back To make it safer and easier for us The Burrow, 40 Forest Road West, into Nottingham. Four miles on the Nottingham NG7 4EQ th to cook our tasty lunches we will be Tuesday 18 February flat. making a stand for our new hand Allotment - Supporting wash basin and setting up a new 12pm - 1.15pm Nottingham Market Square sink to wash our vegetables. our Birds in Spring tram stop Drinks and hot food provided. Join us for a range of tasks, as well St Ann’s Allotments, Ransom Road 11am - 3pm th as a cup of tea, on our friendly and Tuesday 25 February welcoming allotment site. Help 10.30am - 2pm Please bring some lunch. Narrowboat Trip and us to grow a variety of fruit and Craft Workshop vegetables, from sowing to harvest, Drinks, snacks and lunch provided. th Suggested donation £1. cook with produce and share a meal Wednesday 19 February Enjoy a tranquil trip along the whilst making friends and picking up Heritage Art Workshop: Nottingham and Beeston Canal with new skills. Monday 24th February Tools and Industry - the Nottingham Narrowboat Project. Arboretum Short Walk Learn something of the history of the As we pass into Spring birds start Drawing canal and have a go at steering the to nest and we will be making Join us for a gentle stroll around boat and working the locks. We will taking both old tools and them welcome on our allotment by Nottingham’s oldest public park industry as inspiration for this providing for their needs. as we experience the nature on Heading to the Canal side Heritage drawing workshop with Beth Wise. our doorstep. Slow pace and some Centre for a 90 minute craft session Tools and images will be provided St Ann’s Allotment, Ransom Road slopes. making a variety of everlasting however if you wish to bring any old flowers before traveling back to tools along then please feel free to 10.30am - 2pm The Arboretum Café at Nottingham on the boat. Places are do so. Waverley Street entrance limited for this trip. Drinks, snacks and lunch will be The Burrow, 40 Forest Road West, provided. Suggested donation of £1. 1.30pm - 2.30pm Carrington Street (above the Nottingham NG7 4EQ canal)

10.30am - 2pm 10.15am - 4pm Drinks and biscuits will be provided. Please note that we will be on the Please bring some lunch. boat for 3 to 4 hours, there are toilets!

Please bring some lunch. Hot 11 drinks and biscuits provided. 12 Nature in Mind February Activities Nature in Mind February Activities Tuesday 25th February Wednesday 26th February Thursday 27th February Thursday 27th February Allotment - Willow Craft Circus Skills Workshop: Sustrans at The Burrow Framework Knitters on Pancake Day The ‘Clown of Clowns’ Museum Sustrans are a UK Cycling and Lives On Join us for a range of tasks, as well Walking Charity providing support The Framework Knitters Museum as a cup of tea, on our friendly and and information to individuals and in Ruddington is a unique surviving Every first Sunday in February community groups. welcoming allotment site. Help us clowns from around all over the example of a 19th century framework to grow a variety of fruit and knitters’ yard. Nottingham has world gather in London to celebrate This afternoon Charlotte Arkley vegetables, from sowing to harvest, the life of Joseph Grimaldi, one of a 400 year history of framework cook with produce and share a meal (Sustrans) will be delivering a travel knitting, from its role in the Industrial the most famous clowns in history. planning workshop to promote their whilst making friends and picking up Join Michail Athinaios for a physical Revolution to the infamous Luddite new skills. services plus offers available to riots of the 1800s, with framework theatre and clowning workshop in individuals and groups. tribute of Joseph Grimaldi. We will knitting giving birth to the Have a go at turning wildlife friendly, be learning about clowning history Nottingham lace industry. easily grown willow into wonderful Pop in and find out about the and Grimaldi who was one of the cheapest and most sustainable handcrafted items with Michael at most influential clowns. Have a go at using the museum’s Ecoworks. Taste our gluten free/dairy ways to get around, build a bike antique knitting machines to create free chickpea pancakes on Shrove scheme and possibly even be your own unique knee pads. Then in The Pavilion, The Forest entitled for a new free bike! Tuesday. Recreation Ground, Nottingham the afternoon try them out as you work alongside volunteers to get the The Burrow, 40 Forest Road West, St Ann’s Allotment, Ransom Road 10.30am - 12.30pm garden into shape for the season Nottingham NG7 4EQ ahead. Places are limited. 10.30am - 2pm Hot drinks and biscuits will be 2pm - 4pm provided. Bus stop B2 on Beastmarket Hill Drinks, snacks and lunch provided. for bus 3 at 9.45am Suggested donation £1. 9.30am - 4pm Wednesday 26th February Public transport, please bring your Nottingham Industrial Museum own fare.

Come and learn about Nottinghamshire’s industrial heritage at Nottingham Please bring some lunch. Industrial Museum. The fascinating collection explores our rich industrial history reflecting local industries such as mining, railways, bicycles, motorcycles, lace, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, tobacco and printing.

Plus there is a collection of working steam and diesel engines. Today’s visit includes a guided tour of the museum focussing on the Raleigh Bicycle Company. The museum is located in the grounds of Park so there will be an optional gentle stroll around the lake after our tour.

Bus stop J5 on Milton Street

10.15am - 3pm

Please bring some lunch.

13 14 Nature in Mind February Activities Nature in Mind February Activities Friday 28th February Friday 28th February Heritage Landscape Walk: Allotment - Outdoor River Trent Wildlife Cooking and Food Origins

Today we’ll be joining the Nature Join us for a range of tasks, as well Nomads group. This monthly group as a cup of tea, on our friendly and explores wildlife around Nottingham welcoming allotment site. Help using public transport. Today we’ll us to grow a variety of fruit and be catching the bus to Burton Joyce vegetables, from sowing to harvest, and walking along the River Trent cook with produce and share a meal to Netherfield Lagoons looking for whilst making friends and picking up interesting wildlife along the way. new skills.

Approx 3 to 4 miles, mostly flat, some We will be looking at the origins standing. and nutritional benefits of seasonal vegetables and cooking up a tasty Left lion in Nottingham Market lunch to share on our waste wood th Friday 28 February Square burning rocket stoves using crops Drum Club - World grown on site. Come and join in 10.15am - 4pm lighting the stoves, keeping the fires Rhythms burning, and chopping firewood, Public transport – please pay your preparing the food and sharing a Led by local percussionist Crispin own fare. A ticket to Burton Joyce will tasty lunch. Harris today’s session will raise cost £3.40 (you cannot use a Robin awareness of a range of percussive Hood ticket). We will be catching St Ann’s Allotments, Ransom Road approaches as used in various a NCT bus back from Netherfield cultures from around the world. We Lagoons. 10.30am - 2pm will learn and play styles including Latin, Samba, Klezmer, and Reggae. Please bring some lunch. Drinks, snacks and lunch will be provided. Suggested donation of £1. This is a great opportunity to try out instruments while learning about the history and heritage of rhythms and their influence on modern music. All welcome.

Beeston Resource Centre, Middle Street, Beeston

2pm - 4pm

Catch bus 36 at bus stop A4 (near Nottingham Central Library) or catch Line 3 Toton tram to Beeston. Buses and trams stops outside Beeston Resource Centre.

15 16 Nature in Mind March Activities Nature in Mind March Activities Monday 2nd March Monday 2nd March Wednesday 4th March Wednesday 4th March Arboretum Short Walk Heritage Landscape Walk: Cook and Eat - The Introduction to Shining Cliff Woods Mediterranean Diet Orienteering Join us for a gentle stroll around Nottingham’s oldest public park In the company of volunteer walk Research into the Mediterranean Join Nature in Mind volunteer Alan as we experience the nature on leader Alan Davies we’ll start walking diet has shown this style of eating Davies to learn some basic map our doorstep. Slow pace and some from near Ambergate in Derbyshire can increase our likelihood of living reading skills before putting these slopes. and stroll through the beautiful longer and healthier. Find out why into practice around the orienteering wooded area at Shining Cliff which this is so and how we can make our course at Woodthorpe Grange Park. The Arboretum Café at Waverley clings to the side of the Derwent own diets more Mediterranean. Cook Street entrance Valley. We will talk about the wood’s and eat some dishes incorporating Bus stop P2 on Lower Parliament history and look for the first signs of elements of the diet with Tia and Street 1.30pm - 2.30pm spring. 3 miles, some slopes, some Kate showing us some traditional stiles. recipes from Greece and Italy. 10am - 1.30pm Hot drinks will be provided. Val Roberts House, 25 Gregory All dishes will be plant-based and Please bring some lunch, drinks will Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6NX dairy free and some will be gluten be provided. free. Please contact us if you have 10am - 4pm any concerns regarding food th intolerances or allergies. Thursday 5 March Please bring some lunch. Minibus will Walled Kitchen Garden Tuesday 3rd March be provided. The Burrow, 40 Forest Road West, at Allotment - Willow Craft Nottingham NG7 4EQ The walled garden dates back to 10am - 2pm Join us for a range of tasks, as well the 1780’s and was used to grow fruit as a cup of tea, on our friendly and and vegetables for . It Drinks and hot food provided. welcoming allotment site. Help originally contained a 75 foot long conservatory and in front of that us to grow a variety of fruit and Thursday 5th March vegetables, from sowing to harvest, was an herbaceous garden that cook with produce and share a Woods grew flowers to be used in the Hall. meal whilst making friends and Enjoy a guided tour of the walled picking up new skills. Colwick Woods is one of the city’s garden and join volunteers as part hidden gems. This 50 hectare site of its restoration process by clearing Have a go at turning wildlife friendly, of rich grassland and ancient vegetation and looking for original easily grown willow into wonderful woodland provides an oasis of bricks. There is the option to go for handcrafted items or carry on from tranquillity just one mile from the a stroll around Wollaton Park after where you left off last time with bustle of . lunch. Michael at Ecoworks. Our visit will consist of a two to three mile guided walk focusing on Bus stop J5 on Milton Street for bus St Ann’s Allotments, Ransom history, species identification and 30 at 9.50am Road conservation management, plus a practical maintenance task. Today’s 9.40am - 2.30pm 10.30am - 2pm activities will be led by members of Friends of Colwick Woods.. Public transport – please pay your Drinks, snacks and lunch provided. own fare. Suggested donation of £1. Bus stop K2 on Kings Street for bus 43 Please bring some lunch. Hot drink

17 and biscuits provided. 18 10am - 3pm Nature in Mind March Activities Nature in Mind March Activities Friday 6th March Friday 6th March Monday 9th March Framework Knitters Lunch Club at Forest Art in the Landscape: Museum Community Garden Yorkshire Park

The Framework Knitters Museum Come and visit Bulwell Forest Enjoy a guided tour of some of the in Ruddington is a unique surviving Community Garden and see how wonderful set outdoors example of a 19th century framework the site is developing. Help out with amid the landscaped grounds of this knitters’ yard. Nottingham has seasonal gardening jobs and enjoy historic country estate. Approx three a 400 year history of framework a shared meal as part of their weekly miles, some slopes. knitting, from its role in the Industrial Lunch Club. Revolution to the infamous Luddite Val Roberts House, 25 Gregory riots of the 1800s, with framework Bus stop T1 on Milton Street for bus Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6NX knitting giving birth to the 17 at 10.30am or meet us there at Nottingham lace industry. 11am 10am - 4pm

Have a go at using the museum’s 10.30am - 2.30pm Please bring some lunch. Minibus will antique knitting machines to create be provided. Hot drinks and food will be provided. your own unique knee pads. Then in th the afternoon try them out as you Tuesday 10 March work alongside volunteers to get the Conservation at garden into shape for the season th Attenborough Nature ahead. Places are limited. Monday 9 March Gamelan Reserve th Bus stop B2 on Beastmarket Hill for Tuesday 10 March bus 3 at 9.45am A fantastic and rare opportunity Today we’ll be joining the Open Allotment - Signs of Spring to play the full set of traditional Door group and travelling out Javanese Gamelan instruments. 9.30am - 4pm to this beautiful nature reserve, Join us for a range of tasks, as well once a gravel quarry, to work with as a cup of tea, on our friendly and Learn to play the instruments of Please bring some lunch. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust welcoming allotment site. Help the Javanese Gamelan orchestra Public transport - please pay your helping to improve natural heritage us to grow a variety of fruit and with giant Gongs, Metallophones, own fare. at Attenborough in order to benefit vegetables, from sowing to harvest, Xylophones and Drums. wildlife and people. th cook with produce and share a meal Monday 9 March whilst making friends and picking up No previous experience needed. Activities will be at a gentle pace new skills. Arboretum Short Walk with plenty of time to observe any Beeston Resource Centre, Middle interesting wildlife. Join us for a gentle stroll around The first signs of spring are a Street, Beeston Nottingham’s oldest public park welcome sight after winter. We’ll Indigo bus stop on Friar Lane for as we experience the nature on be looking for trees budding, bulbs Bus 36 at bus stop A4 (near 10am our doorstep. Slow pace and some shooting and birds nesting whilst Central Library) or catch Line 3 slopes. listening out for the birdsong. Toton tram to Beeston. Buses and 10am - 4pm trams stop at Middle Street by the The Arboretum Café at St Ann’s Allotment, Ransom Road Resource Centre. Public transport – please pay your Waverley Street entrance own fare. A Robin Hood ticket (£5.10) 10.30am - 2pm 10.30am - 1pm can be used all day on buses and 1.30pm - 2.30pm trams. Drinks, snacks and lunch provided. Drinks and snacks will be provided. Hot drinks will be provided. Suggested donation £1. Please bring some lunch. 19 20 Nature in Mind March Activities Nature in Mind March Activities Wednesday 11th March Wednesday 11th March Thursday 12th March Friday 13th March Heritage Art Workshop BFF City Parks Walk Matlock 3 Mile Walk Conservation at Tools and Industry: Clifton Grove 3 mile walk with ‘Best Foot Forward Starting from the train station this Lino Printing Group’ along the boundaries of circular walk takes in fantastic views Join Park Ranger Simon Jenkins at and St Anns passing of Matlock Bath plus Riber Castle this beautiful Nature Reserve with Following on from last month’s through Victoria Park, King Edward and Matlock itself. The return walk workshop we will using our drawings adjacent woodland. Our task today Park, and follows the river Derwent back to our is to carry on removing sycamore of old tools and industry for this lino Green’s . starting point. printing workshop with Beth Wise. saplings that will give native trees more light and space to grow. Outside Victoria Leisure Centre, Please note this walk has a steep Tools and images will be provided Gedling Street, Nottingham incline at the start which we will take Work will take place at a gentle pace however if you wish to bring any old NG1 1DB very slowly. tools along then please feel free to with plenty of time for breaks. do so. Carve a tile and have a go at 10.30am - 12.30pm Val Roberts House, 25 Gregory printing with ink. Bus stop B2 on Beastmarket Hill at Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6NX 10.10am - Bus 1 is at 10.20am Smoking cigarettes or e-cigarettes The Burrow, 40 Forest Road West, is not permitted on Health Walks. 10am - 3.30pm Nottingham NG7 4EQ 10.10am - 3.30pm Hot drinks and minibus will be 10am - 2pm th Please bring some lunch. Thursday 12 March provided. Hot drinks and biscuits provided. Origins and Meanings of Please bring some lunch. Friday 13th March Drinks and biscuits will be provided. Local Names Public transport - please pay your Allotment - Spring own fare. Come along and find out the Seed Sowing origins and meanings of surnames common to Nottingham and Join us for a range of tasks, as well surrounding areas. Local researcher, as a cup of tea, on our friendly and Paul Cullen, will be joining us to welcoming allotment site. Help tell us the history behind the most us to grow a variety of fruit and common surnames of our area and vegetables, from sowing to harvest, he has also offered to explain the cook with produce and share a meal meanings of our surnames. whilst making friends and picking up new skills. Let us know if you would like to know the history of your surname even It’s still early in the growing season if you are not able to attend the but there are some flower and session. vegetable seeds we can sow now including wildflowers, annuals, peas, The Burrow, 40 Forest Road West, beetroot, chard and brassicas. Nottingham NG7 4EQ St Ann’s Allotments, Ransom Road 11am - 2pm 10.30am - 2pm Drinks and hot food will be provided. Drinks, snacks and lunch will be provided. Suggested donation of £1. 21 22 Nature in Mind March Activities Nature in Mind March Activities Monday 16th March Monday 16th March Tuesday 17th March Pony Handling with Arboretum Short Walk Allotment - Spring Equinox Helping Hooves Allotment Celebration Join us for a gentle stroll around Helping Hooves is an Equine led Nottingham’s oldest public park Join us for a range of tasks, as well development centre working as we experience the nature on as a cup of tea, on our friendly and specifically with people our doorstep. Slow pace and some welcoming allotment site. Help experiencing mental health slopes. us to grow a variety of fruit and difficulties. They work solely through vegetables, from sowing to harvest, non ridden horsemanship and The Arboretum Café at cook with produce and share a meal handling and use equine therapy Waverley Street entrance whilst making friends and picking up as a basis to everything they do. new skills. Located on the outskirts of Derby 1.30pm - 2.30pm city in a peaceful rural location with We will be celebrating the days a small herd of four ponies, we will Hot drinks will be provided. starting to get longer than the nights be building relationships with the with a fire, food, crafts and hand horses and learning about equine Tuesday 17th March drumming behaviour and psychology. Art Workshop at Lakeside St Ann’s Allotment, Ransom Road We will enjoy a group handling Mat Collishaw rose to prominence session learning the basics of in the 1990s as one of the defining 10.30am -2pm moving and leading safely. generation of Young British Artists. Often drawing on subjects from the Drinks, snacks and lunch provided. Val Roberts House, 25 Gregory Suggested donation £1. history of art and photography, his Wednesday 18th March Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6NX works focus on opposites such as nature and artifice. A preoccupation Southwell Workhouse and 10.15am - 2pm has been his fascination with early Walk forms of photography and other Please bring some lunch. Victorian devices such as the After a 3 mile walk around Southwell Hot drinks and biscuits will be zoetrope. area led by NIM volunteer Alan provided. Davies we will head off to The Featuring his 2016 installation Albion Workhouse for a self guided tour. – a ghostly apparition of the Major Oak, this is the first major exhibition Built in 1824 and situated just outside of Collishaw’s work to be mounted the town and the most complete in the city of his birth. After a wander workhouse in existence it soon round the exhibition we will take part became a blueprint for workhouses in a practical art workshop. throughout the country.

Nottingham Market Square tram Val Roberts House, 25 Gregory stop Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6NX

10.30am - 3pm 10am - 3.30pm

Please bring some lunch. Please bring some lunch. Mat Collishaw Hot drinks and biscuits will be Drinks will be provided. provided. 23 24 Nature in Mind March Activities Thursday 19th March Narrow Boat Trip

Enjoy a tranquil trip along the Nottingham and Beeston Canal and River Trent with the Nottingham Narrowboat Project. In our narrow boats we’ll be heading to Colwick Country Park where we can get out and stretch our legs for 20 minutes before heading back to Nottingham. Learn something of the history of the canal and have a go at steering the boat and working the locks. Places are limited for this trip.

Carrington Street (above the canal) at 10.15am

10.15am - 3.30pm

Please note that we will be on the boats for about 4 hours – there are toilets!

Please bring some lunch. Hot drinks and biscuits will be provided.

Friday 20th March Friday 20th March Woodpeckers at Best Foot Forward Wollaton Park Embankment Walk

Today we’ll be joining the Nature This is a steady walk 2-3 miles Friday 20th March Nomads group. This monthly group along the beautiful tree-lined explores wildlife around Nottingham embankment – crossing the Allotment - Wash-Stands using public transport. river Trent at Bridge and for Hands and Vegetables returning to the starting point at the We will be looking for signs of Embankment gates. Join us for a range of tasks, as well Britain’s 3 woodpecker species as a cup of tea, on our friendly and including the elusive lesser spotted The Embankment gates at welcoming allotment site. Help woodpecker. Approx 2 miles, some 10.20am or, meet a bus stop W4 us to grow a variety of fruit and slopes, some standing. on Lower Parliament Street at vegetables, from sowing to harvest, 10am cook with produce, share a meal Nottingham Market Square and pick up new skills. 10am - 1pm 10am - 4pm To make it safer and easier for us Smoking cigarettes or e-cigarettes to cook our tasty lunches we will be Public transport – please pay your is not permitted on Health Walks. making a stand for our new hand own fare. A Robin Hood ticket (£5.10) wash basin and setting up a new will cover buses and trams all day. sink to wash our vegetables.

Please bring some lunch. St Ann’s Allotment, Ransom Road

10.30am - 2pm

Drinks, snacks and lunch provided. Suggested donation £1. 25 26 Nature in Mind March Activities Nature in Mind March Activities Monday 23rd March Monday 23rd March Tuesday 24th March Tuesday 24th March Nature in Mind Meeting Arboretum Short Walk Industrial Heritage: Allotment - Outdoor Cromford Mill and Village Cooking and Food Origins A chance for you to come and have Join us for a gentle stroll around your say about Nature in Mind. Join Nottingham’s oldest public park Cromford remains as an intact Join us for a range of tasks, as well us for an informal meeting where as we experience the nature on example of an 18th century industrial as a cup of tea, on our friendly and you can tell us what you like and our doorstep. Slow pace and some village. It was largely built to support welcoming allotment site. Help what you don’t. slopes. Cromford Mill, the world’s first us to grow a variety of fruit and successful water powered cotton vegetables, from sowing to harvest, We’re always interested in your The Arboretum Café at spinning mill, built in 1771 by Sir cook with produce and share a meal feedback. Staff will also be filling in Waverley Street entrance Richard Arkwright. whilst making friends and picking up forms with you towards completing new skills. the Nature in Mind evaluation for our 1.30pm - 2.30pm A tour of the mill from The Arkwright funders. Society will be followed by a tour of We will be looking at the origins Hot drinks will be provided. the historical features of the village and nutritional benefits of seasonal The Burrow, 40 Forest Road West, with volunteer Paul Scotting. We will vegetables and cooking up a tasty Nottingham NG7 4EQ also have time to walk along the lunch to share on our waste wood canal and see adjacent countryside. burning rocket stoves using crops 12pm - 1.15pm Three mile walk with hills. grown on site. Come and join in lighting the stoves, keeping the Drinks and hot food provided. Val Roberts House, 25 Gregory fires burning, chopping firewood, Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6NX preparing the food and sharing a tasty lunch. 10am - 4.30pm St Ann’s Allotment, Ransom Road Please bring some lunch. Minibus will be provided. 10.30am - 2pm

Drinks, snacks and lunch provided. Suggested donation £1. Wednesday 25th March Circus Skills Workshop: Exploring Object Manipulation

Through a sequence of movements and the use of juggling props, we will create and explore routines with singular and multiple props.

Join Michail Athinaios for the latest Circus Skills Workshop. Everyone is welcome, come and have a play or watch!

The Pavilion, The , Nottingham

10.30am - 12.30pm

Hot drinks and biscuits will be provided.

27 28 Nature in Mind March Activities Wednesday 25th March Thursday 26th March 12 Mile City Bike Ride Windmill Community Garden Today’s ride will begin at Arkwright Meadows Community Gardens A selection of activities for us to get and will follow the track alongside involved in today including regular the River Trent leading to Holme gardening tasks plus re-edging the Pierpont Country Park. Depending herb beds and creating new plant on the weather and group we will beds for a selection of dyer’s plants. have the option to continue our ride to Country Park before Bus stop W2 on Lower Parliament returning to AMC Gardens. Street (outside Wilko)

Today’s ride is for confident cyclists. Alternatively, make your own way Staff will speak with all participants to Windmill Community Garden, when booking on this event about Ascot Drive (near Collins Cash their cycling experience. Bikes and Carry) for 10.30am provided. 10am - 3pm Bus stop W4 on Lower Parliament Street at 10am Hot drinks and tasty food will be provided. Alternatively, meet at AMC Gardens, off Wilford Grove, The Meadows NG2 2HZ at 10.30am

10am - 4pm

Friday 27th March Allotment - Welcoming Wildlife

Join us for a range of tasks, as well as a cup of tea, on our friendly and welcoming allotment site. Help us to grow a variety of fruit and vegetables, from sowing to harvest, cook with produce and share a meal whilst making friends and picking up new skills.

Many species of wildlife are in decline in the UK and we will be looking at what we can do to support mammals, birds, insects, amphibians and all the other wildlife that our allotment can support and improving on what we already provide.

St Ann’s Allotment, Ransom Road

10.30am - 2pm

Drinks, snacks and lunch provided. Suggested donation £1.

29 30 Nature in Mind March Activities Nature in Mind March Activities Friday 27th March Monday 30th March Tuesday 31st March Drum Club - World Arboretum Short Walk Allotment - Wild Rhythms Join us for a gentle stroll around Food Walk Nottingham’s oldest public park Led by local percussionist Crispin Join us for a range of tasks, as well as we experience the nature on Harris today’s session will raise as a cup of tea, on our friendly and our doorstep. Slow pace and some awareness of a range of percussive welcoming allotment site. Help slopes. approaches as used in various us to grow a variety of fruit and cultures from around the world. vegetables, from sowing to harvest, The Arboretum Café at cook with produce and share a meal Waverley Street entrance We will learn and play styles whilst making friends and picking up including Latin, Samba, Klezmer, and new skills. Reggae. This is a great opportunity 1.30pm - 2.30pm to try out instruments while learning Paul Paine will be showing us the Hot drinks will be provided. about the history and heritage of wild food available to us at this time rhythms and their influence on of year on St. Anns allotments. modern music. All welcome St Ann’s Allotment, Ransom Road Beeston Resource Centre, Middle Monday 30th March Street, Beeston Heritage Landscape Walk: 10.30am - 2pm Catch bus 36 at bus stop A4 Langford Lowfields Nature Drinks, snacks and lunch provided. (near Nottingham Central Reserve Suggested donation £1. Library) or catch Line 3 Toton tram to Beeston. Buses and Langford Lowfields, near Newark trams stops outside Beeston is a flagship partnership project Resource Centre. involving the RSPB and Tarmac, showcasing wetland habitat 2pm - 4pm creation on a large scale. A thriving reed bed sits at the heart of this Drinks, snacks and lunch provided. expanding reserve, with wildlife Suggested donation £1. highlights including bitterns, bearded tits, marsh harriers, starling murmurations and colourful wildflowers.

Enjoy a guided walk in the company of RSPB staff member Joe Harris. Three miles on the flat, some standing.

Val Roberts House, 25 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6NX

10am - 4pm

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The following organisations are also Arkwright Meadows Community Dig In Community Allotment Gardening sessions at Windmill running activities - please contact Gardens, Kirkby Gardens, The Meadows (Stapleford) Community Gardens them individually for more information: opportunities for all abilities. Volunteer opportunities. Ascot Drive off Aspley Lane, Nottinghamshire County Council Park Bobbersmill, NG8 5HD Activities: Wednesdays & Thursdays at Telephone 07943 700302 www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/enjoying/ 10am - 12pm and 1pm - 3pm Mondays 10am - 1pm and countryside/countryparks/ See website for details: Thursdays 10am - 4pm Every Tuesday to Saturday, 10am - 3pm www.diginstapleford.org.uk (including lunch). St Ann’s Community Orchard Tandoor oven available to hire £5 per Activity Days are on the third Sunday session. Bring your own dough. Nottingham Park Rangers Contact 07816 899978 for details. of every month. Our activity days have been attracting people from the local Please phone ahead 0115 986 7777 Gentle local Wednesday walk. Use NCT turquoise bus 77 to AS17 stop community each month for more on Aspley Lane. than seven years. They often focus on Cook and Eat, Arkwright Meadows Meet at the Forest (Pavilion) looking after the site, providing informal Community Gardens Best Foot Forward – Health Walks activities and special events such Come and learn some simple and Every Wednesday 10.30am - 11.30am A free activity and everyone is welcome. as our season celebrations. They are healthy cooking skills with us, socialise, Telephone Nicky Newberry on informal, community-led and are open and eat. We have limited spaces so Bulwell Forest Garden 0115 841 4473. to everyone! Refreshments available. please call ahead on 0115 986 7777 if you Nottingham are planning on joining us. Mondays - Bestwood Walk Woodthorpe For information telephone 0115 958 9255. Austin Street, Bulwell, Nottingham, Grange Walk Every Tuesday 11am - 1pm NG6 9JU (behind Cantrell School Tuesdays – Nuthall Railway Walk St Ann’s Allotments, Ransom Road playing field). Wednesdays – St Ann’s & Sneinton Walk, Cycling with Ridewise, Arkwright Strelley Woodland and Countryside Walk Third Sunday of every month. Meadows Community Gardens Garden Club: Drop-in sessions on 1st Thursdays – Mary Potter Walk 12pm - 4pm On the 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month. and 3rd Wednesdays of each month Fridays – Wollaton Park Walk, Victoria 10am - 1pm Embankment Walk & Old Basford Walk. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust Evening Yoga, Arkwright Meadows Conservation Volunteer Days Community Gardens The Garden Club is for all ages, abilities Beeston Resource Centre Every Monday evening, two different and level of gardening knowledge, no Providing a wide range of activities Wednesdays and Thursdays classes, one at 6pm - 7pm and the previous experience necessary, tools and events for everyone including other at 7.30pm - 8.30pm. and gloves provided. gardening, arts and crafts, music Telephone Julie Reed on 0115 958 8242 (guitar, keyboards, drums), wellbeing Summerwood Community Garden, Advice, share tips and make new friends. and walking groups. Bestwood Country Park Conservation Summerwood Lane Allotments, Clifton Volunteers Volunteer Fridays and spend as little For more information visit Beeston Resource Centre, 74 Middle time or as long as you want and in return www. bulwellforestgarden.co.uk Street, Beeston NG9 2AR Every Monday 10am - 3pm lunch and gardening tips will be provided. (excluding Bank holidays) Ecoworks Community Garden, Open seven days a week. Every Friday meet 10am at the St Ann’s Allotments, Ransom Road Telephone 0115 925 2516 Telephone 0115 927 3674 allotment gates Supershed project, green build and Contact Emma 07944 124423 or, landscaping opportunities, all welcome. Leo on 07816 036084 Tuesdays 10am - 3pm Please see website for more details: www.summerwood.org.uk Contact Paul on 07973116291

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Please note that the following activities are not organised by Nature in Mind.

Arkwright Meadows Community Gardens, Kirkby Gardens, The Meadows

Please phone 0115 986 7777 for more details. There may be a cost for some of these activities.

• Family lantern making session - for adults and children together to make lanterns to illuminate the gardens at our Light Night event. Saturday 1st February

• Lantern making for our Light Night event - two Wednesday evening sessions on 29th January and 5th February for adults to help us create a host of lanterns to illuminate the community gardens for our Light Night event on Saturday 8th February.

• Light Nght event at the Gardens - Saturday 8th February.

35 36 If you have any question about the listed activities or anything else, please feel free to get in touch with Nature in Mind.

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