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The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) is a community volunteering charity that works to create healthier and happier communities for everyone through environmental conservation and practical volunteering tasks. With a local office in Hastings, TCV provide a range of local volunteering activities, practical projects and family-friendly events throughout Hastings & Rother..

🌳NEW WOODLAND WELLBEING MORNINGS🌳From next week, we're going to be running a new Green Gym in Ham Street Woods (near Ash...
05/10/2026

🌳NEW WOODLAND WELLBEING MORNINGS🌳
From next week, we're going to be running a new Green Gym in Ham Street Woods (near Ashford). This is going to be gentle conservation, taken at a pace that suits you, designed to give everyone a wellbeing boost.
🌿Being active in the outdoors
🌿Connecting with nature
🌿Doing something worthwhile
🌿Meeting new people
🌿Learning new skills

Get in touch if you'd like to take part. We'll be going out on the third Thursday of the month for a year, 10am to 1pm. No experience required, we'll supply all the tools and equipment, and our leaders will be on hand to show you how to do everything.

Wye and Ham Street Woods National Nature Reserve's Ashford Volunteer Centre Orlestone Parish Council

Would you like to join us tomorrow (Tues 06/10/2026) to help with some woodland maintence at Guestling Wood? It is a tru...
05/10/2026

Would you like to join us tomorrow (Tues 06/10/2026) to help with some woodland maintence at Guestling Wood? It is a truly beautiful site and we're delighted to be helping the Woodand Trust to keep it looked after for nature, and safe and clear for walkers.

Get in touch to register as a volunteer!

Pett Parish Council Guestling Parish Council Rother Voluntary Action

🌳Conservation volunteering oppotunities this week🌳Would you like to join us for a day of volunteering in the autumn sun?...
05/10/2026

🌳Conservation volunteering oppotunities this week🌳
Would you like to join us for a day of volunteering in the autumn sun? Looking after woods, connecting with nature, keeping active, meeting other outdoorsy people.
Monday - South Wood, Ninfield - woodland tasks on Potman's Lane
Tuesday - Guestling Wood, Pett - ride clearance and tree care in lovely Woodland Trust site
Wednesday - Woodworking Wedsnesday *NEW* learn green woodworking skills (booking essential)
Thursday - Crowbourgh Green Gym - gardening for wellbeing
Friday - Brede High Woods - help us to help look after this large and beautiful Woodland Trust site

🌳No previous experience required, just get in touch to find out more. Minibus from Fearon Road or meet on site.

Hastings Voluntary Action Rother Voluntary Action

🌳Green woodworking workshops🌳FREE! Using on-site timber - splitting, stripping, making different items.Places are limite...
30/09/2026

🌳Green woodworking workshops🌳
FREE! Using on-site timber - splitting, stripping, making different items.
Places are limited so please get in touch to find out more and book on.

Here's where you can join us this week. No experience required, we'll be there to guide every task. No equipment require...
28/09/2026

Here's where you can join us this week. No experience required, we'll be there to guide every task. No equipment required, just wear sturdy shoes and outdoor clothes.
Get in touch to find out more and to register as a volunteer.
Minibus available from Fearon Road.

We had a marvellous time at the High Weald Celebration event at The Bale House Visitor Centre on Saturday. It was great ...
22/09/2026

We had a marvellous time at the High Weald Celebration event at The Bale House Visitor Centre on Saturday. It was great to see so many different nature craft activities and so many little sets of hands being busy with natural materials. And it was lovely to speak to so many people about the benefits of conservation volunteering and tell them all about our astonishing foxglove revival in Ninfield this year!
And frankly I was utterly delighted that so many people went off with one of our stickers with dreadful bee jokes and puns!
My favourites: "Why do bees buzz? Beecause they don't know how to whistle!" and "To bee or not to bee."
Most popular with kids: "Beecause I love nature!"
Most popular with grown ups: "Let it bee, let it bee" and "Don't worry, bee happy!"

Any extra pun suggestions for next time welcome below!

High Weald National Landscape

A terrific site visit to The Conservation Volunteers Essex on Friday to be shown around the Davy Down site by Zoe and ou...
21/09/2026

A terrific site visit to The Conservation Volunteers Essex on Friday to be shown around the Davy Down site by Zoe and our wonderful partners at Land Trust. We admired the wildflower meadow, meandered through the pretty woodland copses, and strolled along the water's edge of the Mardyke.
Thank you for having us, Zoe, and I wish I had taken more photos of your marvellous Visitor's Centre!
- Lorna

🌳Conservation volunteering opportunities this week 🌳If you'd like to spend a day in the woods, if you'd like to help nat...
21/09/2026

🌳Conservation volunteering opportunities this week 🌳
If you'd like to spend a day in the woods, if you'd like to help nature and get involved with looking after local green spaces.... drop me a line!
No long-term commitment, you can just come along for a try out and then join in whenever it suits you.
Get in touch to register and find out more.
[email protected]

Hastings Voluntary Action Rother Voluntary Action

Here's where you can join us this week. No previous experience required and absolutely no need to commit to long term, j...
14/09/2026

Here's where you can join us this week. No previous experience required and absolutely no need to commit to long term, just come along, have a go and see whether you think a day in nature is your sort of day!
Drop me a line to find out more or to register as a volunteer.
[email protected]

13/09/2026

So many Ivy Bees on my front lawn! Nothing to fear, these are really gentle bees and I am always delighted when they emerge from their tiny underground bunkers every September to turn my garden into a buzzing symphony.
Although they look quite a bit like Honey Bees, they are completely placid and won’t sting you. And despite this teeming video, they are actually solitary bees that just happen to nest in close quarters (unlike honey bees that live and work together).
The species was not identified scientifically until 1993 in Southern Europe. The first UK recording was 2001, and the first Sussex sightings were in 2004 in Hastings. Although non-native, it looks as though they are a biodiversity net gain as they are great late pollinators, coming into action when most of the other bees have finished for the year. They are timed for the Ivy flowers (and are the only ivy-specific pollinator), but they will also go to things like Dandelions, Daisies and Chicory.
And honestly, once you have sat on the grass with this lot zooming around you, you too will fall for these hypnotic, frenetic and gentle bees.
- Lorna

Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) – 13/09/2026, Crowhurst, East Sussex

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