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Dawlish Warren NNR Visitors Centre, Wednesday 25 October 10.30am-12pm
Animals can be hard to see…but they often leave us clues of what they have been up to! Develop your fieldcraft skills as we go looking for animal tracks and signs and take home a plaster cast animal footprint!
Junior Rangers Children aged 7-11 years. Booking essential, call 01626 863980 or email Stephen.Edwards. No dogs, please. You may leave your children with us.
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Dawlish Warren NNR Visitors Centre, Thursday 26 October, 11am-3pm
Follow the map around our spooky trail and find out some creepy facts about our wild animals and plants!
Cost is £1 for entry to include a sweet treat at the end! Drop in event (no need to book). Dogs on leads.
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Dawlish Countryside Park, Sunday 29 October, 12noon-3pm
Join the rangers for some spooky Halloween crafts. From scary conker spiders to petrifying pine cone bats.
What will you make?
Meet by the main entrance notice board. Free.
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Dawlish Countryside Park, Saturday 11 November, 9am – 12pm
Devon Loves Dogs drop in event to learn about our green spaces, dog walking venues and the Four Paws Code. Goody bags available. Find us near the main entrance
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Dawlish Countryside Park, Saturday 25 November, 10 am onwards
Come and help us check the health of our native trees at Dawlish Countryside Park.
Meet by the main entrance notice board.
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Dawlish Warren NNR Visitors Centre, Saturday 25 November, 11am-12.30pm
Without fungi, life on earth would be impossible, yet we hardly ever notice them! Find out more and go on a fungus foray on the nature reserve.
Junior Rangers Children aged 7-11 years. Booking essential. Call 01626 863980 or email Stephen Edwards Parents must stay with their children. No dogs, please.
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Dawlish Countryside Park, Saturday 2 December, 10 am onwards, Volunteer event
Come and join us to plant some native trees to help boost the biodiversity at Dawlish Countryside Park.
Meet by the main entrance notice board.
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Dawlish Countryside Park, Sunday 17 December, 12noon - 3pm
Join us for some festive crafty fun at Dawlish Countryside Park.
Make your own tin can lanterns, Hazel Christmas trees and lots more!
Find us near the main entrance.
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Homeyards Botanical Gardens, Friday, 27 October, 2-5pm
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Organised by the Friends of Homeyards Botanical Gardens, there will be a range of activities including:
- Art Storm
- Barn Owl Trust
- Teignbridge Countryside Ranger activity.
- Refreshments by Hope Coffee
- Scavenger Hunt
- Bulb planting.
Please see this poster for more details.
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 If you love nature and have just a little spare time, then there are lots of things you can do to help your local wildlife!
One of those is becoming a Parish Wildlife Warden. You don’t need to have any special expertise – just enthusiasm! We will provide training, information, support and connections with other local wildlife wardens.
Some of the projects that our Wildlife Wardens are involved with are:
- Encouraging wildlife gardening with more ponds and natural areas, and less mowing, no chemicals
- Helping local habitats by recording local species, surveying parish habitats and planting trees, hedges and wildflower meadows
- Creating maps which show wildlife routes and corridors whilst identifying where new ones are needed
- Working with local youth groups to encourage a love of wildlife
- Looking out for planning applications that might affect wildlife whilst keeping an eye on development to ensure it does not break planning conditions
You choose what you would like to do or we can help with ideas.
Recent Events and Training which we have run include:
- We have run several collaborative bioblitz events at farms interested in increasing biodiversity
- A butterfly and day-flying moth ID training session
- Groups of Wildlife Wardens have been surveying potential County Wildlife Sites through the summer for Devon Biodiversity Record Centre
We are thrilled to have recently been given Awards for All funding to enable us to continue this work.
The scheme is run by the ACT's (Action on Climate in Teignbridge) Ecology Group, which is led by Audrey Compton. Vicky Fairs is our Coordinator, who will make you welcome, answer your questions and much more!
 The Exminster Greenspaces Volunteers have just launched a new Whatsapp based network of Wildlife Gardeners.
While the volunteers continue to develop community spaces for people and wildlife, we felt it would be fantastic to encourage similar good practice at home.
The Whatsapp network is there to share ideas, support and inspire, especially for those finding their way and feeling less confident about what will get their gardens buzzing.
Exminster has had a great response to the Devon Wildlife Trust wildlife garden award scheme and this initiative should help that grow and add to the habitat stepping stones across the village.
The Greenspaces team in Exminster would love to hear from other groups looking to do the same or join the Exminster community already taking shape - just use the QR code to sign up and get in touch. Alternatively just email them
Devon Environment Foundation will soon be releasing their publicity film featuring Kiln Orchard. Volunteers on the project are preparing to sow more yellow Rattle over the next few months. Check out their website to get involved.
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 Recycling Teignbridge invites you to sign up to our free quarterly e-newsletter ‘Rezine’ which provides regular recycling and reuse updates.
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We visited Green Spaces in Starcross, Dawlish and Newton Abbot between May and September. We were joined by colleagues from our Garden Community team, the Community Environmental Warden, Recycling Officer and Devon Loves Dogs. It was a great way to interact with regular park users and new visitors.
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 The Festival which ran from 9-1 September saw the Wellbeing Walks in Dawlish form part of the programme. Pictured above are participants of three walks - short, medium, and long - before they set off on Monday 11 September. Five people came to try out the walks having seen them in the programme.
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In May, the volunteers took part in the Big Help Out Event in The Old Cemetery. This event was just the beginning of the project, which will run throughout the year and beyond. New volunteers are always welcome to join us at our regular Tuesday and/or Saturday morning work sessions held between 9.30am-12.30pm.
The Friends of Teignmouth Cemetery (FOTC) aims to sympathetically restore Teignmouth Old Cemetery, enabling it to become a green space for the use and enjoyment by all sectors of the community. Careful consideration is also given to preserve the area as an oasis of biodiversity and to conserve the wide variety of wildflowers which inhabit the cemetery and yield splashes of seasonal colour.
We are very proud to share that last month, our FOTC Teignmouth Old Cemetery volunteer project was awarded a Wildlife Garden plaque by Devon Wildlife Trust which is on display in the cemetery.
For more information about the work that we do, and stories of those buried in the cemetery, please visit our Facebook, Twitter and website. You can also email us. fotc2017@gmail.com
Please do come and join us – we are a friendly bunch who enjoy the exercise and satisfaction of improving and maintaining our beautiful local cemetery – we look forward to meeting you!
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