Meet at the bus stop outside the Lamb & Flag SinCH has helped the Cannock Chase team contact local landowners and tenants who want to do more for nature. Cannock Chase staff have been able to give government funded grants to pay for new hedging, fencing, trees, bat and bird boxes and more. The parish […]
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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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Join us for an evening talk – all welcome! We are very pleased to host a talk by local entomologist Jon Webb. Jon works for Natural England, and for over a decade served as a national specialist focusing on beetles, wetlands and woodland. He’s now a Deputy Director in the Chief Scientist Directorate so he […]
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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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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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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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Please bring a bring a friend and join us on a walk to identify spring flowers, trees and insects – great for the kids too! – All Welcome We will be starting at 13.30 at the Memorial Hall with a quick overview of iNaturalist and how to use it. We’ll then take a walk around […]
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Sat 17th February 1.45-3.30pm at Great Haywood Memorial Hall There will be boxes available to build which will then be placed around the parish or, alternatively, build a box for your own garden at a cost of £6 each. Book your place as spaces will be limited to 20 by emailing info@sinch.earth to get the […]
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