On Sunday 5th November 2023, Lea Bridge Conservation Volunteers, will be doing a nature conservation volunteering task on Walthamstow Marshes near Oxbow Island doing tree management and Pennywort removal.
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Everyone is welcome to volunteer with Lea Bridge Conservation Volunteers on any of our first Sunday nature conservation task in North East London. Simply turn up at the Waterworks Nature Reserve by 10am on the Sunday morning in clothing and footwear suitable for the task and weather. If you use What Three Words ///guises.manage.entry is the location.
LBCV Volunteers April 2023 in the sun near Oxbow Island
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On Sunday 7th January 2024 in the Waterworks Nature Reserve, Lea Brigde Conservation Volunteers will be scalloping Blackthorn along the path way and creating a dead hedge.
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Everyone is welcome to volunteer with Lea Bridge Conservation Volunteers on any of our first Sunday nature conservation task in North East London. Simply turn up at the Waterworks Nature Reserve by 10am on the Sunday morning in clothing and footwear suitable for the task and weather. If you use What Three Words ///guises.manage.entry is the location.
Winter tasks – dress for the weather. We won’t let it stop us !
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Horseshoe Thicket coup (coppiced area) with belted galloway cattle.
On Sunday 3rd December we will be on Walthamstow Marshes in Horseshoe Thicket doing our annual coppicing task. The task will involve creating dead hedges to control access to the regrowth areas, felling trees to open up the ground and seed bank to sunlight to increase the biodiversity of the area, creating carbon sinks with deadwood ecosystems and increasing biodiversity with habitat piles.
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Everyone is welcome to volunteer with Lea Bridge Conservation Volunteers on any of our first Sunday nature conservation task in North East London. Simply turn up at the Waterworks Nature Reserve by 10am on the Sunday morning in clothing and footwear suitable for the task and weather. If you use What Three Words ///guises.manage.entry is the location.
Please do not meet us on site, we carry all our equipment, so will only have enough for those that arrive at the Waterworks,
Winter Dead Head hedge 2022 created during the 2021 coppicing task.
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Nature conservation task on Walthamstow Marshes. This is a change to March’s planned task as the nesting season has started early this year, so the scrub management and bramble bash task will not go ahead. Instead we will be adding to the marshes’ hibernaculum and helping to stop the increasing of the nutrient content of the marsh’s soil structure, leading to greater fertility and a loss of this unique ecosytem in the Lea Valley.
This is the final task in our 2022/23 calender more tasks will apear when our 2023/24 list becomes available. As always we will be runnng volunteer nature conservation tasks on the first Sunday of every month from the Waterworks Nature Reserve in North East London.
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Waterworks Nature Reserve (park pathway) Blackthorn Scallop and dead hedge
## PLEASE NOTE ## THIS TASK IS NOT ON THE FIRST SUNDAY ## Happy New Year !
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January 2023 Nature Conservation Task
Sunday 8th January 2023 Lea Bridge Conservation Volunteers will be moving cut reed to increase the hibernaclum on Walthamstow Marsh, increasing the biodiversity.
There may be a bramble bash too.
Coppicied coup 2022
All are welcome to join us and no experience is required. If You are curious about what happens on a LBCV task, one of our regular volunteers did the following live video on October's 2020 task
Please wear appropriate layered clothing and stout footwear for the task and weather. We will be working in an area with bramble and sharp reeds, so closed shoes/boots and long trousers and sleeves would be best.
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Wet Marsh 2023
Everybody is welcome to volunteer with LBCV. No experience is required. Please wear sturdy footwear and appropriate clothing for the work and weather. We may be working with brambles, sharp reeds and sharp tools and the marsh paths are very wet at the moment.
We are out of lockdown but some restrictions still need to apply for LBCV to safely be able to run volunteer tasks in the Lea Valley Park, with the restrictions below.
If you are ill, feel ill or have been in contact with somebody who is self-isolating please do not volunteer.
Please take a test if you are not sure.
Please wash your hands before the task in warm water or hand sanitiser.
Wash your hands before eating or drinking in warm water or hand sanitiser
LBCV can supply wellington boots to work in, please arrive in plenty of time at the Waterworks, to select your pair. Best to bring an extra pair of socks to avoid blisters.
LBCV will provide tools, training, gloves, coffee, tea and biscuits. Please bring some lunch and water.
Please arrive from 9:30am onwards at the Waterworks Centre Lammas Road, off Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, London E10 7QT, for a 10am departure to collect tools and gloves. The meeting place is by the bike racks in front of the Waterworks Centre, across from the former Greyhound Public House on Lea Bridge Road. If you use what three words ///guises.manage.entry is the location.
Please lock bicycles to the stands in front of the Waterworks Centre. There is ample free car parking. Dogs are not allowed in the Nature Reserve so please do not cross the bridge with dogs or ride bicycles in the nature reserve. Dogs are still welcome on some tasks but must be kept on a lead while they are in the area of the task on the North Marsh.
We should be finished by 3-4pm.
Volunteering and doing a conservation task with LBCV in North East London, is great way to meet new people, learn new skills, use old skills, be more active, get closer to nature, make a difference and have some fun with like-minded people in the Lea Valley Regional Park.
Goodbye Charlie
Charlie 2012 - 2022
It is with great sadness, I have to report Charlie will no longer be popping by to visit us on our marsh tasks, as he passed away at the end of 2022.
My deepest sympathies go to his owners Ivo and Peter,
Our annual coppicing task creates biodiversity in the thicket by creating different light levels via the changing the canopy cover. We will also create a valuable ecosystem of lying deadwood with the felled trunks becoming a carbon store. Standing deadwood is not possible in such a public woodland.
A walk around the thicket will enable you to see the various coups (coppiced areas) from previous years’ tasks, last year’s coup being the most verdant as the seed bank has been exposed to light for the first time in over a decade.
LBCV have been coppicing Horseshoe Thicket for over 20 years. All people (18+) are welcome to join us no experience necessary. Just turn up at the Waterworks Centre, around 9:45am, to help us move the tools to the site. We do the monthly tasks in all weathers, so please dress for the weather.
Walthamstow Marshes Scrub/ Willow removal along ditches
Please note a change to our usual first Sunday task date.
October 2022 Nature Conservation Task
On Sunday 9th October 2021, Lea Bridge Conservation Volunteers will be doing a nature conservation task on Walthamstow Marshes. ( See below for more task date changes ) The work on this Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is being done as part of the Higher Level Stewardship agreement with Natural England.
The task is scrub management, which will involve removing invasive willow and ash from along the ditch, which will aid the Water Vole population. Removing the scrub will maintain the marsh as a wetland meadow habitat. There will also be a litter pick but the focus of the task is removing the willow and larger bramble stems.
No experience is needed. LBCV will provide the training and tools along with the tea, coffee and biscuits. Bring your own packed lunch and water. Volunteers should wear sturdy footwear and appropriate clothing for the task and weather.Join UsEverybody is welcome to volunteer with LBCV. No experience is required. Please wear sturdy footwear and appropriate clothing for the work and weather. We will be working with brambles, thistles and nettles and sharp tools. We are out of lockdown but some restrictions still need to apply for LBCV to safely be able to run volunteer tasks in the Lea Valley Park, with the restrictions below.If you are ill, feel ill or have been in contact with somebody who is self-isolating please do not volunteerPlease wash your hands before the task in warm water or hand sanitiser.Wash your hands before eating or drinking in warm water or hand sanitiserLBCV can supply wellington boots to work in, please arrive in plenty of time to select your pair.LBCV will provide tools, training, gloves, coffee, tea and biscuits. Please bring some lunch and water.Please arrive from 9:30am onwards at the Waterworks Centre Lammas Road, off Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, London E10 7QT, for a 10am departure to collect tools and gloves. The meeting place is by the bike racks in front of the Waterworks Centre, across from the former Greyhound Public House on Lea Bridge Road. If you use what three words ///guises.manage.entry is the location.Please lock bicycles to the stands in front of the Waterworks Centre. There is ample free car parking. Dogs are not allowed in the Nature Reserve so please do not cross the bridge with dogs or ride bicycles in the nature reserve. Dogs are still welcome on some tasks, including this one.We should be finished by 3-4pm.Volunteering and doing a conservation task with LBCV in North East London, is great way to meet new people, learn new skills, use old skills, be more active, get closer to nature, make a difference and have some fun with like-minded people in the Lea Valley Regional Park.Dates UpdateThis October task is a week after the usual first Sunday date. If you turned up last week apologies but the Website, Twitter account and Facebook pages were updated and a warning task email was sent. Where else do look for information about LBCV. Also LVRPA Volunteers were also sent notification. MORE DATE CHANGES The coppicing task due to be on Sunday 4th December will be on Sunday 11 December The January 2023 task will be on 8th January not New Year’s Day.
On Sunday 4 September 2022, LBCV will be in the reedbeds at The Waterworks Nature Reserve preparing the filter beds for the winter migratory birds by helping the rangers open up channels in the reedbeds and stopping the beds from drying out from too much dead vegetation. Depending on volunteer numbers there may also be a chance to help preserve some architectural heritage by preventing decay caused by the invasive vegetation on/in the bed walls To join us, meet at the Waterworks Centre, Lammas Road from 9:30am – 10am. See below for more details. Join Us Everybody is welcome to volunteer with LBCV. No experience is required. Please wear sturdy footwear and appropriate clothing for the work and weather. We will be working with sharp reeds and possibly nettles and bramble – so please, please wear long trousers and sleeves. We are out of the lockdowns but some restrictions still need to apply for LBCV to safely be able to run volunteer tasks in the Lea Valley Park, with the restrictions below.
If you are ill, feel ill or have been in contact with somebody who is self-isolating, please do not volunteer. Please wash your hands before the task in water or hand sanitiser. Please maintain a social distance of at least 1m in the container. Wash your hands before eating or drinking in water or hand sanitiser,
LBCV can supply wellington boots to work in, please arrive in plenty of time to select your pair. How wet it is under foot, depends upon the rain between now and Sunday. LBCV will provide tools, training, gloves, coffee, teas, with decaf alternatives available and biscuits. Please bring some lunch and water. Please arrive from 9:30am onwards at the Waterworks Centre Lammas Road, off Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, London E10 7QT, for a 10am departure to collect tools and gloves. The meeting place is by the bike racks in front of the Waterworks Centre, across from the former Greyhound Public House on Lea Bridge Road. If you use what three words ///guises.manage.entry is the location. Please lock bicycles to the stands in front of the Waterworks Centre. There is ample free car parking. Dogs are not allowed in the Nature Reserve so please do not cross the bridge with dogs or ride bicycles in the nature reserve. Dogs are still welcome on some tasks, just not this one. We should be finished by 4 – 4:30pm.
Volunteering and doing a conservation task with LBCV in North East London, is great way to meet new people, learn new skills, use old skills, be more active, get closer to nature, make a difference and have some fun with like-minded people in the Lea Valley Regional Park.
