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November 2023 Conservation Task

Walthamstow Marshes Nature Reserve SSSi
Walthamstow Marshes SSI Sign

Task Deatails

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 2023in the sun !
LBCV Volunteers April 2023 in the sun near Oxbow Island

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November 2023 Conservation Task

Walthamstow Marshes Nature Reserve SSSi
Walthamstow Marshes SSI Sign

Task Deatails

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.

Volunteer with us !

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 2023in the sun !
LBCV Volunteers April 2023 in the sun near Oxbow Island

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Janauary 2024 Volunteering task

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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December 2023 Conservation Task

Coppiced trees from coppicing conservationtask and cattle Horseshoe Thicket, Walthamstow, London
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.

Volunteer with us !

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 from 2021 coppicing task.
Winter Dead Head hedge 2022 created during the 2021 coppicing task.

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