Welcome back! For out first trip of the new year, we’ll be heading to Providence Plantation on Saturday 26th January. We will be doing some light conservation work to ease us back into the swing of things. This is the perfect way to get some fresh air an exercise after all those long weeks of revision and exams! As usual, we’ll be having lots of tea and biscuit breaks!
Please email Lucy by 7pm on Wednesday 16th January if you would like to come.
Thursday 13th December is the date for our second Christmas social: the Christmas party! Our Providence Plantation Officer, Laura is kindly hosting it at her house. We’ll be having lots of festive food, drinks, music and games. Everyone is welcome, so bring your friends!
On Sunday 9th December we will be heading to Providence Platation for a nature walk guided by experts from the Bristol Naturalist Society. This will be a great opportunity for you to get to our regular woodland a bit better and to learn what sort of flora and fauna you can look out for on our trips there.
On the evening of Thursday 6th December we will be holding the first of two Christmas events: our Christmas cinema social!
Join us for a trip to a private cinema on the Christmas Steps to watch Love Actually and eat lots of festive snacks. There will be a cost of £5.50 per person and we’ll be getting there for 6:30pm, and as there are limited spaces in this cinema places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. If you would like to come please email Lucy ASAP.
If you miss out on this, don’t panic! We love Christmas so much here at Conservation Group that we’ll be having another Christmas social, which will be open to everyone.
On the weekend of the 24th-25th November we will be going to Brownsea Island in Dorset. This will be our first residential trip of the year and a first for Conservation Group, as we have never been there before. We will be working with the National Trust who run most of the island. We will be leaving Bristol early on Saturday morning, staying overnigh before returning late on Sunday evening. The trip will cost approximately £30, however, this depends on numbers, so may change.
If you are interested in coming on this trip, please email Lucy by 7pm Friday 19th October. Please register you interest even if you are not completely sure you can come yet, as we need an idea of numbers. Also, if you would like to come and have a car and would be willing to drive (it is about a 2 hour drive), please let Lucy know (you will be reimbursed for fuel).
On Tuesday 20th November we are co-hosting a talk by Victor Tzikas with BioSoc.
Victor Tzikas is River Restoration officer for River Nene Regional Park-independent Community Interest Company, creating a green infrastructure network of environmental projects. He will be discussing his current projects and talking about how he got into his role. If you’re interested in a career in conservation or river restoration in the UK, or just interested, make sure you come along!
The talk will be held in the Sky Lounge of the Life Sciences Building at 5pm. There is no need to buy tickets for this event, just come along if you want to. Head to the Facebook event to let us know you’re interested.
Right after the talk we will be heading to the White Rabbit pub for around 6:30pm for some socialising, drinks and pizza! Come along for a chat and to meet some fellow members. Click going on the Facebook event page if you’d like to come, as we may need to book if there’s a lot of us!
What’s better than Halloween and Bonfire Night? Why, combining the two into one fun-filled night in the woods, of course!
On the evening of the 1st of November we will be heading to Providence Plantation for a night of eating, chatting and games around a bonfire.
On Sunday 28th October we will going on a trip to Browne’s Folly to help the Avon Wildlife Trust with some conservation work. This is sure to be a great day, and will be a fantastic chance to learn about conservation from the experts. There will be a £3 cost for this trip, which you can bring along on the day.
Come along to our social on Tuesday 23rd October and up-cycle some plastic bottles and pots. Create some jazzy plant pots to take home to decorate your place with. Snacks, cake, and all the decorating equipment you’ll need will be provided. If you have any of your own plastic bottles or pots that you want to up-cycle, please bring them along.
The social will start at 7pm and will be held in the Multifaith Chaplaincy on Woodland Road. You can let us know you are going on the Facebook event page.
If you couldn’t make it to the first Taster Trip and still want to see how we roll, come along on Sunday 14th October for a great day of conservation work at Providence Plantation, a reserve in Long Ashton owned by the University and managed by us. If you came on the first Taster Trip, but enjoyed it so much that you can’t wait to do some more conservation, you’re welcome to come along again! This trip is open to non-members as well as members, so if you’re not sure if you want to join yet, this will be a great way to help you make up your mind, and wonderful day out with some great people.
If you would like to attend this trip, please email me (president@bucg.org.uk) by 7pm on Wednesday 10th October.
