The Conservation Volunteers' network of blogs
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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We have been really buoyed at The Conservation Volunteers with all the positive conversations we continue to have with our corporate partners around how we can get back to working together after COVID-19. In 2019 we had a record-breaking year with over 7,000 employees from our corporate partners volunteer with TCV, supporting hundreds of community […]
Continue reading Corporate Community Days
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To say that 2020 has been a strange year would be somewhat of an understatement. We are living through a pivotal moment of human history and can be forgive for feeling overwhelmed during this time. Whilst precautions are being taken to protect our physical health, it is important that we also take precautions to protect […]
Continue reading Being kind to yourself this Mental Health Awareness Week
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Across our social media, we have been sharing ways to stay connected to nature at home during this period of physical distancing. Physical distancing has also meant that many of us are now working from home. For a lot of our team, working outdoors in the fresh air and with nature is the norm. We […]
Continue reading TCV at home: How we’re staying connected to nature.
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Last month, The Conservation Volunteers made a promise that we would continue to be here for our volunteers and supporters as the UK went into lockdown, and that our team of staff would continue to manage the community green spaces that we all draw so much from. During this time of physical distancing, there have […]
Continue reading TCV: Connecting communities during lockdown
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Ingenious ways to mitigate flooding and improve biodiversity have been invented by volunteers with The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) for tributaries of the River Medway. Working with South East Rivers Trust (SERT) since 2018, enthusiastic TCV volunteers have used their wits and skills to custom-build fifty ‘leaky’ dams from natural materials on woodland streams in the […]
Continue reading Innovative forest dams to limit flood risk and expand wetland habitat
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Sow and Grow with The Conservation Volunteers in Birmingham Salad Growing in the UK Most salad crops grow well in the UK. I grow mine both on my allotment and at home in raised beds in the back garden, but you can easily grow leaves and smaller crops (radish & spring onion) in trough planters […]
Continue reading This week: Growing Salad Crops
This article was posted in the blog Health for Life
Sow and Grow with The Conservation Volunteers in Birmingham During these strange times, The Conservation Volunteers in Birmingham will be encouraging people to grow their own food in their gardens, on windowsills, or at an allotment site. Although TCV are not able to give out seeds, there are lots available on the high street, so […]
Continue reading An Introduction to Growing Your Own
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Hello Everyone! It’s been a while but the thyme has come to reignite this blog. I am a fan of puns, so please bear with me as I leaf my way through a list of them. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we have suspended all of our regular Green Gym groups and activities, and any […]
Continue reading Long thyme no see
This article was posted in the blog Health for Life
Spring is a great time to get out into the fresh air. It’s also a super opportunity to discover the seasonal changes in your local wildlife. Astronomers say spring starts on 20th March. Yet, due to warmer winters, it seems to get earlier every year for plants and animals, and no-one knows exactly what the […]
Continue reading Spring into science!
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Last year, The Conservation Volunteers celebrated our 60th anniversary; six decades of digging, planting, cutting, citizen-sciencing, path-building, growing, teaching, community-building, chatting, laughing and tea-making! As we celebrated six decades of conservation work in the same year that the climate crisis dominated the headlines and public consciousness, it was clear that the work our community of […]
Continue reading Looking back on our diamond anniversary year
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