Author: simon

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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You are invited to our AGM on Fri 11th October – 6.30 All welcome

  • 26th September 2024

Venue: Memorial Hall, Main Road, Great Haywood, Stafford ST18 0SU It’s been another very busy year for SinCH and a good time to take stock and think about what we want to do in 2025. We have some formal AGM business to deal with first – our financial statement/report and to elect the Steering Committee […]

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Getting Closer to Nature with SinCH

  • 27th August 2024

Winter months We started the year with Bird Box making event at the Memorial Hall and over 20 boxes were built for people’s gardens or to be sited around the Parish. We’d like to thank the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust for supplying the kits at a reduced cost and the Parish Council for purchasing them for […]

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Two SinCH Nature Walks in August

  • 30th July 2024

Bee Safari – Saturday 10th August at 13.00 to 15.00 Meet at the entrance to Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Wolseley Centre (no need to book) SinCH is repeating its popular Bee Safari so join local expert Ron for a guided walk to identify and explore some of the bee population. With luck we could spot up […]

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Check out our new Growing Space

  • 3rd July 2024

How did this come about? In a word, Unexpectedly… originally we were allocated a few raised beds to grow material for our Help Nature Thrive work. It then became clear that the beds were much better suited to another community project the Allotments Association badly wanted to support – a Children’s Growing Club. We were […]

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An update on the SinCH visits to Veolia

  • 23rd May 2024

Veolia ERF at Four Ashes Following a granted planning application in February 2011, Staffordshire County Council signed a 25 years contract with Veolia. The Four Ashes site construction completed late 2013 and all the domestic Green Bin waste is now processed there. This facility costed 180 M£ , it is estimated it would now cost […]

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