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Ditchling Naturespace The land next to the new Keymer Road car park

13/09/2026

Next Ditchling Naturespace gathering 🦉🪲🌼🐝

We’d love for you to please join us at the next working party on Saturday 26th September 9:30am-12:30pm.

There is plenty to do on the field before the winter sets in and we get round to planting new hedges at the western boundary and at the top end of the field. Everybody is welcome to come, even for a short time, if that is all you can spare. We will find a job for you that suits you. We will take a break at around 11:00am and update you on where things are and have a chat.

The tasks that we would like to get done are:

· Complete the bee bank. We have had another delivery of sand which we need to place.
· Make progress on the hibernaculum. We need to collect more wood and dig a drainage channel from the pit that we have dug.
· Remove existing broken fencing and the tape fence along the western boundary.
· Remove nettles from the existing compost heaps and begin to extract the compost.
· Sort rubbish and break up wood to facilitate disposal.

We will provide some tools but if you can bring your own that may suit what you want to do, please do so. Please bring gardening gloves too.

We will provide water, but otherwise, please bring your own refreshments.

We look forward to seeing you on the field!

If you’d like to join us &/or receive our newsletters, please contact Hugh St John on [email protected] or 07825276058.

Thank you for your support

Next Ditchling Naturespace gathering! 🦉🪲🌼🐝Please comment below if you’d like to join us at the next working party on the...
23/08/2026

Next Ditchling Naturespace gathering! 🦉🪲🌼🐝

Please comment below if you’d like to join us at the next working party on the morning of Saturday 26th September, continuing what we began last time in July.

We now have more sand for the bee bank and it will be great to complete the hibernaculum so the reptiles have a winter residence.

Also, if you’d like to be on the newsletter mailing list, please comment below or message Kate Browne on 07969 927186.

Thank you for your support!

📸Starting the hibernaculum on 4th July 2026

10/07/2026

Thank you to all who are supporting Ditchling Naturespace

On the 4th July, after an informative speech from Kate Ryland it was so lovely to see people enjoying the field and helping to move on it's transformation.

Volunteers helped finish clearing away the old shed, finish building the bee bank, begin digging the hibernaculum and collect wood to fill it, remove old posts and stymying an overactive vine!

It will be wonderful to see all of the wildlife and nature this first step will sustain over the years.

Many thanks to the Adur Adaptation Project for all their continued help and support on this

Looking forward to the next gathering

On Saturday 4th July there will be another gathering at Ditchling Naturespace (the field next to Ditchling Parish Counci...
25/06/2026

On Saturday 4th July there will be another gathering at Ditchling Naturespace (the field next to Ditchling Parish Council Car Park), from 9:30am til lunchtime.

We aim to complete a Bee Bank which has been started (bring a spade/shovel!), hear from Kate Ryland about the ecological survey she has completed, and celebrate the creation of 3 large scrapes at the bottom of the field! There will also be general clearing up to do and hopefully we will begin to construct a hibernaculum for hibernating reptiles. If you have any spare hardcore, please bring a barrow-full for the hibernaculum!

At 10:45am, Kate will talk about her report and wildlife recording/surveys. Then she will take small groups around to talk about key features of the site, identify plants, and explain why monitoring is important. She will show us all how to do botanical surveys, so that we can collect and record data at regular intervals.

Please come and join us, even if just to say hello!

Children are particularly welcome as we would love for them to get involved 🐝🐊🦆

RSVP to Hugh St John (Chair DNS committee for Friends of Ditchling) on [email protected]

Please bring your own refreshments and seating. We will provide water, please bring your own cup.

This gathering coincides nicely with National Meadows Day 2026! https://www.plantlife.org.uk/events/national-meadows-day-2026/

For those that can’t attend but would like to receive our update after the gathering, please email Hugh on the above email.

We look forward to seeing you there!

📸: Some of those who came to the last gathering on the 21st March 2026.

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