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The Year of Green Action!
18th January 2019Welcome to YoGA - the Year of Green Action! YoGA is about connecting people all around the country with nature, and showing how we can all take positive action to improve our environment. It's a year-long drive to help everyone get involved in projects that support nature – in our own gardens, schools or workplaces, and as consumers. -
Spring into 2019 with Countryside Classroom
9th January 2019Happy New Year from the Countryside Classroom team. We hope you will find plenty of interest in the year's first newsletter. Don't forget to check the blogs section of the website too for topical ideas, resource recommendations, news, views and offers. For example, our first blog of 2019 details an RHS scheme to award up to £500 in materials, together with expert advice, in support of community gardening projects. -
LEAF Newsletter December 2018
13th December 2018LEAF Education has teamed up with former Bayer/FACE Award winner Rosie Jeffries from Greatworth Hall Farm to help and support Oxford Brookes BA Primary Education students to focus on how teaching beyond the classroom impacts upon children's learning. -
New Year's resolution - Help our endangered chalk streams!
11th December 2018The Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Project will be running a number of volunteer days in the new year to help Lincolnshire's incredibly rare chalk streams. Please get in touch with Will Bartle (Monitoring Officer) if you're interested in coming along to any of the dates – william.bartle@lincolnshire.gov.uk -
Chalk stream volunteers take the lead on national scheme
11th December 2018The Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Project and their army of volunteers have been working hard on a pilot project in and around the Lincolnshire Wolds since 2015. Volunteers have been surveying for 26 key invertebrates that help to indicate the state of the water quality, sedimentation and flow rate of Lincolnshire's chalk streams. The list extends the number of key invertebrates on the national Riverfly Partnership scheme (where currently 8 are identified and counted).
