Volunteering Opportunities with Brighton & Hove City Council’s Rangers and Cityparks
• Scrub clearance • Chalk Grassland management • Sheep welfare • General conservation • Coppicing • Downland maintenance • Nature Trail construction • Flint walling Volunteering with groups the Ranger Service supports • Charcoal making and with our Cityparks groups can be very rewarding. • Woodland management • General gardening Look at the following pages to find an activity and many more! that you would like to get involved in. Name of Group Meeting Day Meeting Time Meeting Place Contact Name Contact email Contact Phone Website Main Activity Benfield Wildlife and Every Tuesday 9:00am West Hove Dave/Dolly Bell benfield123@hotmail. 01273 410430 www.benfieldwildlifeandconservationgroup. Scrub clearance Conservation Group (October - March) Golf Course co.uk wordpress.com Car Park BHCC Lookerers N/A N/A N/A David Larkin Cityparks.volunteers@ BHCC CityParks Volunteers Page (ask Checking sheep welfare & (Urban Shepherds) brighton-hove.gov.uk Alan Steeden) grazing hardware
Brighton & Hove Every Friday 10:00am Various Neil Doyle Cityparks.volunteers@ 07810 150737 volunteer page link (Alan Steeden) General conservation, Coppicing, CityParks Ranger brighton-hove.gov.uk Scrub clearance, Woodland and Volunteers Downland maintenance, Nature Trail construction, Flint walling, Charcoal making, and much more Coldean Woods TBA TBA TBA Chantelle Cityparks.volunteers@ 07879 117346 Woodland management & Sustainable Fuel Hoppe brighton-hove.gov.uk Sustainable fuel production Project Easthill Park Every Wednesday 9:00am Outside the Steve Peters 07584 759484 General gardening maintenance Garden Group Walled Garden
Friends of no regular session 11:00am Various Bernadette [email protected] Chalk Grassland management & Beacon Hill but various dates Skinner Scrub clearance throghout year Friends of 3rd Sunday of 10:00am Scout Hut, Geoff Stevens dbsgs@cumulusnine. 01273 603892 www.bevendeandown.wordpress.com/ Chalk Grassland management & Bevendean Down Every Month Heath Hill Ave, net Scrub clearance Bevendean, Friends of 1st Tuesday of 14:30pm By The Clock Max Glaskin blakerspark@hotmail. 07981 490516 www.blakerspark.org.uk/ General gardening maintenance Blaker’s Park Every Month co.uk
Friends of 3rd Saturday of 10:00am By café Jannet King www.dykeroadpark.wordpress.com/ General gardening maintenance Dyke Road Park Every Month Friends of Monthly various 10:30am Hangleton Dave Bell d.bell223@ntlworld. General gardening maintenance Hangleton Park Community com Centre Friends of 1st weekend 10:00am The Old Barn, Gill Taylor [email protected] 07719 943237 www.fhbw.org.uk/ Woodland maintenance Hollingbury & of the month, Upper Roedale Burstead Woods alternating Cottages, between Sats and BN1 7AA Suns Friends of 2nd Tuesday of 9:30am Patcham Peace Jeanette Fakes [email protected] 01273 504852 www.patchamu3a.webs.com/ General gardening maintenance Patcham Peace Gdn every month Garden except December/ January Friends of Various N/A N/A Tony Benton info@ www.friendsofprestonpark.org Community events Preston Park friendsofprestonpark. org Friends of Monthly 10:00am Wildlife Pond Kristin Svojorr saunders.park@yahoo. www.saunders-park.com/ General gardening maintenance Saunders Park various co.uk
Friends of Monthly 10:30am East Brighton Lyn Bird [email protected]. 01273 686244 www.sheepcote.org.uk/ Chalk Grassland management & Sheepcote Valley Saturdays - Park Car Park uk Scrub clearance various dates Name of Group Meeting Day Meeting Time Meeting Place Contact Name Contact email Contact Phone Website Main Activity Friends of Monthly various 10:00am Opposite Hill Morwenna Cork info@threecorner 01273 556256 www.threecorneredcopse.org.uk/ Woodland maintenance Three Cornered Copse Top Café, Dyke edcopse.org.uk Road Ave Friends of no regular session 10:00am Golf Car Park Christine cj_fitzgerald2002@ 01273 882695 Chalk Grassland management & Waterhall but various dates or Unmade FitzGerald yahoo.co.uk Scrub clearance throughout year track entrance Friends of Monthly Sundays 10:00am Top of Old Pip Shaw friendsofwithdean 01273 563059 www.friendsofwithdeanpark.org.uk/ Lilac maintenance, Withdean Park – various dates Court Close [email protected] General gardening and Woodland maintenance Keep The Ridge Green Monthly Sundays 10:30am By The Ron Murray info@ 01273 503152 www.keeptheridgegreen.com/ Various – various dates Windmill, keeptheridgegreen. Green Ridge com Preston Manor Every Tuesday & 10:00am Preston Manor George Harris 07825 113889 General garden maintenance Gardens Wednesday Walled Garden and Horticulture Preston Park Every Wednesday 10:00am Rock Garden Andy Jeavons [email protected] 07743 540147 www.facebook.com/ General garden maintenance Rock Garden Chalet PrestonRockGarden and Horticulture
Preston Park Every Saturday 10:00am Outside George Harris 07825 113889 General garden maintenance Rose Garden (March – Rotunda Café and Horticulture September) Queens Park Every Tuesday 13:00am South end of Lindsay Lindsay.cattanach@ 07818 092719 Pond conservation Volunteers pond Cattanach brighton-hove.gov.uk General gardening maintenance
Tarner Park Group no regular session 18:30pm Playbase Liz Bell Liz.bell$@ntlworld. Various activities from gardening but various dates com to community events throughout year The Withdean, Monthly 10:30am Withdean Martin Wilson infotweack.org.uk 01273 701929 www.tweack.org.uk/ Woodland maintenance Westdene & Eldred Saturdays – Stadium Ave Copse Keepers various dates Woods
University of the 2nd Wednesday 10:00am Withdean Park Liz Krasnuik [email protected] http://www.brightonandhoveu3a.org. General gardening maintenance 3rd Age @ Withdean of Every Month Lilac Enclosure uk/ Park
Walk on the Wild Side Various Various Various Grant Scott [email protected] 07763 015157 General conservation Craven Vale
Wish Park Volunteers Monthly 10:00am At the Sarah O’Dair sarahodair@hotmail. 07864 676795 http://www.wishparkresidents.com/ General garden maintenance Saturdays – Vegetable co.uk and Horticulture various dates Growing Garden Scrub Clearance Bevendean Down Volunteering Opportunities with Brighton & Hove City Council’s Rangers and Cityparks
Brighton & Hove City Council’s Rangers help support and organise a number of regular volunteering opportunities across the city. There are a number of groups who meet regularly to work on various projects – from basic gardening tasks to woodland and chalk grassland management.
There are also groups supervised by Garden Managers and other Cityparks staff who help out mainly with gardening and horticultural tasks. We will also be organising a regular group at Stanmer Nursery.
Volunteering with the groups the Ranger Service supports and with our parks groups can be very rewarding. We aim to develop the knowledge and skills of our volunteers and work with organisations such as The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) to ensure the skills and training are available.
The Ranger Service’s own volunteer group meets every Friday. This group works across the city and is involved in a variety of tasks from flint wall restoration to coppicing. Rangers also organise the volunteer shepherds (or ‘lookerers’) who help check and look after the flocks grazing our chalk grassland and grassland habitat sites.
For more information contact [email protected]
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