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In over five decades of inspiring people and improving places, The Conservation Volunteers has consistently supported people working locally to improve their environment and their life chances, and created resilience in the most vulnerable communities.
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The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) are delighted to partner with PwC to help deliver their One Firm One Day (OFOD) annual, firm-wide, fundraising and volunteering event. To celebrate the fantastic achievements of the PwC teams, we asked Peter Hutchings, TCV Fundraising and Partnerships Manager, to share the story of this habitat-creating, biodiversity-increasing and team-strengthening CSR volunteering […]
Continue reading Celebratory CSR challenge brings hundreds together for nature
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Use this recipe card to roast veggies for Sunday dinner! You could grow these ingredients – carrots, parsnip and radish grow well in the UK. You could also roast swede, pumpkin or squash, celeriac and sprouts. This recipe does not use oil. Click on each picture to open it in a new window, then right […]
Continue reading Step by Step: Herby Roast Veggies
This article was posted in the blog Health for Life
This blog post in the WildSkills series focuses on Eva, who is based at TCV York. The three activities Eva describes are so varied and highlights the true nature of “no day is the same” for someone working and developing a career in the environment sector. From identifying wildflowers to leading groups of volunteers, Eva’s […]
Continue reading WildSkills: Eva in the environment sector
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Introduction: July is traditionally the time to start harvesting onions and garlic so that they can dry in the warmer weather. It is also a fab time to start crops for christmas if you didn’t start anything in June. If you have any brassica plants that need to go out, you can put them in […]
Continue reading Grow Your Own in 2021 – July
This article was posted in the blog Health for Life
TCV’s WildSkills trainees are half way through their exciting, career-boosting traineeship and already they’ve made huge progress in their learning and confidence. The traineeship is supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery and all trainees are incredibly grateful that they’ve been given this opportunity through TCV. So far, we’ve read all about the trainees who […]
Continue reading WildSkills: Reflections at traineeship half way point
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Introduction: June is the start of the harvest period! You can also keep sowing seeds for successional cropping, and loads of flowers can be direct sown this month too. There is still time to start sweetcorn, peas, beans, squash, pumpkin, and salad crops too. Read the previous articles here: January / February / March / […]
Continue reading Grow Your Own in 2021 - June
This article was posted in the blog Health for Life
This month, TCV’s WildSkills trainees got stuck into a variety of projects and learning: Including fixing a gate for improved public access, leading education sessions, identifying butterflies and developing recruitment skills on social media… Missed the first three parts of the TCV Wildskills blog? Catch up on the series with the traineeship introduction, and what […]
Continue reading WildSkills: More trees, more community events and a whole load of new skills
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Volunteers Week is a chance for us to put the spotlight on the fantastic people who are at the core of our work – TCV volunteers! All volunteers are heroes – donating their time to another person or cause because they have a passion. At TCV, we are incredibly lucky to have 51,429 of them […]
Continue reading A tribute to volunteers
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TCV’s WildSkills conservation traineeship continues and our trainees share what they’ve been working on, giving us an insight into what they’ve been learning as well as a few facts for our readers along the way. Recently we heard from our TCV WildSkills trainees in the North about their tasks including tree planting, reed planting, and […]
Continue reading WildSkills: identifying and protecting different species
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Conserving the natural environment is high on the agenda of 2021, with COP26 taking place and many reports of climate change in the media. The focus is often on the wider impact for communities and the natural world. But why is connecting with nature so important for individuals and specifically, for mental health? As the […]
Continue reading Connecting with nature to support mental health
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