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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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It’s National Obesity Awareness Week, a campaign encouraging the UK to join in a resolution to help improve the nation’s health. Generally, we achieve weight loss because of a decrease in our calorific intake. However, evidence shows the best way to maintain your health is to be engaged in regular physical activity. And perhaps more importantly, […]
Continue reading 5 ways to get outside and active this winter...
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A fab way to get more veg into fussy eaters! Use chunky root veggies to make a mixed mash. Some suggestions: potato, carrot & parsnip cauliflower & potato potato, carrot, swede pumpkin, potato & carrot sweet potato & pumpkin For this step by step, I used potato, carrot, and cauliflower. You could also use beetroot, […]
Continue reading Step by Step: Mixed Veggie Mash
This article was posted in the blog Health for Life
Introduction: Welcome to our new blog series! This year, we are going to post monthly blogs with loads of information about what to sow during that month, indoors and out, or what you can directly sow outside, and later, what you could be harvesting in that month. Although it is still winter, January is a […]
Continue reading Grow Your Own in 2021 – January
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Our Christmas fundraising appeal was inspired by David, a TCV volunteer, and his son Joseph. Our fundraising team use valuable case studies like David’s to share with people the importance of the individuals that we work with. Also to highlight how volunteering in a green space has such a huge impact on many people’s lives […]
Continue reading Make a difference this Christmas
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A warming seasonal drink, perfect for cold evenings! I used apple juice, but you could use cranberry instead. One litre does three cups. Share your results with us on our social media! Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
Continue reading Step by Step: Hot Spiced Apple Juice
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This article originally appeared here on Countryside Jobs Service 2019 was dominated by discussions and action around the ongoing Climate Crisis, with Oxford Languages coining it as its word of the year. Globally, we recognised that the natural environment needed our help it if was to survive. With the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, a […]
Continue reading When the world stopped, nature was there for us
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This blog is part three of a series. Click here for part one and part two. On Thursday 3rd December 2020, the first 28,000 trees were planted as part of the Parsloes Park ‘Forest of Thanks’. The forest is a joint project between The Conservation Volunteers, Barking & Dagenham Council, NatWest, Thames Chase community volunteers, […]
Continue reading The Forest of Thanks and Opportunity.
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Everything that lives on our planet depends upon the wonderful web of wildlife that fills the earth beneath us. That’s the message of the UN’s World Soil Day. Soil is not just dirt. It teems with a community of plants, animals, fungi and micro-organisms – ranging from the familiar mole and earthworm, to the truly […]
Continue reading 10 ways to save the jungle beneath your feet
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Volunteering is at the heart of all we do here at The Conservation Volunteers. We are incredibly proud of our community of volunteers across the country who devote their time week in, week out, to care for and protect our local green spaces. We don’t have to tell you that this year has been a […]
Continue reading Celebrating our community of volunteers
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This blog is part two of a series. Click here for part one. The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) are pioneering the Miyawaki approach to forest planting with Barking & Dagenham Council and thanks to 32,000 trees being donated to the project by Natwest Group. The Parsloes Park collaborative project (also involving Kings College London, Thames Chase […]
Continue reading The Conservation Volunteers and partners are pioneering the Miyawaki approach in Europe with the biggest plant of this kind…
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