Author: simon

Join us for a Storytelling and Poetry event!

  • 7th July 2025

Sunday 20 July – 4pm at the SinCH Growing Space, Colwich Allotments, Coley Lane All welcome – no fixed charge but donations to SinCH welcome on the day. Ingrid will be sharing her lively travelling tales through lands of impossible language, babushkas, pickled gherkins, her first encounter with a Polish allotment and goats in trees […]

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SinCH Nature Walks in August

  • 7th July 2025

Bat Walk – Saturday 2nd August at 20.30 Meet at the entrance to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Wolseley Centre at the gatehouse (no need to book). Staffordshire Bat expert Jane will be be guiding us around the Wolseley Centre and giving us an insight into the species to be found there and the work of the […]

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Evening Talk – Screaming Devil Birds! on Tues 6th May

  • 24th April 2025

Join us for an evening talk – all welcome! We are please to have Ron Rock back with a talk about Swifts. These graceful, but threatened, birds will be starting to join us any time now. So it’s a great time to learn all about Swifts and what we can do to help. Ron will […]

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Some Nature Notes

  • 28th November 2024

Moving beyond autumn It doesn’t seem like 5 minutes since we were out and about exploring the autumn fungi – from Earthstars, to Smokey Bracket to Petticoat Mottlegills we had a bountiful selection to see. Following our Fungi Foray the latest count of Waxcap mushrooms on Haywood Cliffs is now up to 10 separate species, […]

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Rob’s Blog – Going Local

  • 11th November 2024

Many thanks to the Contact Magazine A big thank you to Pete and Melvyn, ‘Contact’ editors, for accepting our articles, toall of the ‘Contact’ team, past and present, for production and distribution and to all contributors and advertisers. ‘Contact’ has been a great help to the cohesion of village life for 50 years or so, […]

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What we found on the Fungi Foray

  • 26th October 2024

Many thanks to SinCH members for contributing these photos. Our guide Richard is a local expert in pasture fungi and he has been checking the Cliffs area periodically over a long number of years and he has noticed that the waxcaps appear to be increasing and he suggests this is helped by the new grazing […]

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