EVENTS
​​​​Cleaver Heath Workday
Sunday 1st March
Starting 10am
Cleaver Heath, Oldfield Road, Heswall
O.S. Grid Ref: SJ 256826
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Are you interested in helping to maintain this lowland heath with its special plants and animals? Practical work could involve removing invasive birch and bracken, maintaining paths or spreading heather seeds to help with the recovery and regrowth of heather where heathland regeneration work is taking place. You will also enjoy beautiful views over the Dee estuary.
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If you are interested and haven't been before please register by emailing info@wirralwildlife.org.uk
You will be invited to come along to a workday to get a 'taster'; for what we do and if you are then interested in coming along on a regular basis you would fill in a Cheshire Wildlife Trust volunteer application form.
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​​​​​Sunday 8th March
New Ferry Butterfly Park Workday with Wirral Countryside Volunteers
9.30am - 4pm
Howell Road, New Ferry, CH62 5BJ
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Free volunteering event. Come for the whole day or join in and leave when you want to.
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This will be the final vegetation management of the year before the Park re-opens in May. Tasks will include coppice gate construction and plug planting of wildflowers.​
Please bring lunch and stout footwear. Tools, training and tea provided.
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Cycle and car parking available on reserve. Good public transport links available.
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Contact: Paul Loughnane by email or telephone 0151 645 8937.
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Friday 13th March
Talk: 'Retrofitting a Listed Building to Passivhaus Standards'
7.30pm
Thornton Hough W.I. Hall, Thornton Hough, CH63 1JL
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A talk by Andrew Hobson.
Admission: £5
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Andy and his partner, Janet, have transformed a semi-derelict Grade 2 listed property, empty for over a decade, into a highly energy efficient family home fit for the twenty first century. The talk will describe the technical and bureaucratic hurdles that had to be cleared before building work began but will focus mainly on the resource-saving interventions installed on the property to make it, officially, the most energy efficient building on Merseyside and the most energy-efficient listed building in the world.
Andy is a retired factory manager and management consultant who retired to the Wirral 5 years ago.
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The talk will be followed by complimentary tea/coffee and homemade cake, with an opportunity to meet like-minded people.
Friday 10th April
Talk: 'From Wirral to Wales - Otters, Badgers & Other Creatures'
7.30pm
Thornton Hough W.I. Hall, Thornton Hough, CH63 1JL
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A talk by Malcolm Ingham
Admission: £5
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Mal Ingham was formerly Head Ranger and Wildlife officer for Wirral Council and set up and ran the Wildlife Rehabilitation Unit based in Thurstaston. As wildlife officer, he assisted the police in investigating wildlife crime and gave expert prosecution evidence. After retiring, he moved to Denbighshire where he currently does the same for the North Wales Police.
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His talk will consist of a bit of history regarding his time on Wirral and the Wildlife Rehab Unit, followed by his life in Wales monitoring otter and their interaction with fox and badger. Mal will also talk about monitoring of small mammals and a little of his wildlife police work.
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​​​​​Sunday 12th April
New Ferry Butterfly Park Workday with Wirral Countryside Volunteers
9.30am - 4pm
Howell Road, New Ferry, CH62 5BJ
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Free volunteering event. Come for the whole day or join in and leave when you want to.
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Activities will include hedge laying, coppicing, turf removal and other maintenance tasks.​ Please bring lunch and stout footwear. Tools, training and tea provided.
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Cycle and car parking available on reserve. Good public transport links available.
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Contact: Paul Loughnane by email or telephone 0151 645 8937.
