 Host your event at Dinton Pastures
Have you considered hosting your event at Dinton Pastures Country Park?
The 450 acres of grassland, lakes, rivers, woodland and trails in the country park provide a unique setting to events of all types and scales, from children parties, wedding receptions or corporate team building sessions to occasions like markets and fairs.
There are a range of indoor venues and outdoor spaces available for hire. The rooms and the activity hall inside Dinton Activity Centre are suitable for meetings, trainings or use as a base for your day-out in the country park. The riverside arena and the Lea Heath are perfect for large and small outdoor functions.
Visit the Dinton Pastures Country Park website to find out more. You may also contact the team by calling 0118 934 4424 or emailing dintonactivitycentre@wokingham.gov.uk for enquiries.
 Community orchards start to bloom
New community orchards could start to blossom across the borough, thanks to our partnership with Freely Fruity to establish a new tree nursery on land between Barkham and Finchampstead.
The new orchard will sit beside the site earmarked for our first solar farm and compliments our plans to plant thousands of new trees across the borough, helping improve biodiversity and reducing local carbon emissions as the trees grow.
The land will be used by Freely Fruity to propagate new saplings with a range of fruit trees proposed including apples, plums and pears of all different varieties.
Freely Fruity will work closely with schools, businesses, churches and communities to plant new community orchards across the borough. Fruit from the orchards will be donated to local food banks and charities.
 Celebrate National Nature Reserves Week
The very first National Nature Reserves Week is now taking place until 29 May.
At present, there are 225 National Nature Reserves (NNRs) in England. Most NNRs offer great opportunities for schools, specialist interest groups and the public to experience wildlife at first hand and to learn more about nature conservation.
Residents in our borough can also enjoy a number of local nature reserves on our doorstep:
These natural green spaces have an abundance of wildlife and a mixture of heathlands, lakes, meadows as well as woodlands. For more information about accessibility and facilities of the sites, check out their individual webpage.
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