Molescroft Hedgehog Highways Project Day

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We were delighted with the success of our event on the 6 th April at the Molescroft Pavilion. 150 people showed up supported by 20 volunteers. There were nine stalls and activities, and five talks. Several hedgehog winter nests were built by Grant and Andy with the help of visitors. We will use these on our sites and donate to local schools. Many new volunteers came forward to join our group.

Ann from The Wolds Hedgehog Rescue Centre was our key speaker, explaining how to care fo hedgehogs, and over £300 was made on their stall. Jo from #TeamWilder told us all about wildlife gardening, and one of our volunteers, Nigel, enchanted everyone with his magnificent home-reared Emperor moths. Lucy from NEYEDC (North East Yorkshire Ecological Data Centre) taught visitors how to use iNaturalist to record local wildlife, and plotted hedgehog sightings in Molescroft. Anthony from Smile Foundation Green and Blue Social Prescribing explained the role of nature in improving
everyone’s mental and physical health.

We are especially grateful to the Hey Smile Foundation and East Riding Council for their Communit Action Grant which made this event and our publicity leaflets possible. Thanks too to the team from Yorkshire Wildlife Trust who designed the leaflets and to the many volunteers who helped deliver these across Molescroft, including the Beverley Wombles.

A huge thankyou from us, to all our volunteers, speakers, and especially all of those who came to the event, we can’t wait to see you again for another event in 2025!

Contribute to our iNaturalist projects!

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MWN have set up a number of projects on iNaturalist to help us monitor biodiversity across the parish, and at some of our sites of special interest. If you are an iNaturalist user your observations in the area will automatically fall under these projects, but we’d welcome active participants to join the groups!

YWT Wild Events Guide

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The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust have just published their 2024 “Wild Events Guide” that runs from April through to September this year.

Brimming and buzzing with exciting places to explore across Yorkshire and stunning wildlife to discover with the YWT team. Find glimmering glow worms in Leeds, enjoy the soothing sounds of the dawn chorus in Doncaster or meet Flamborough’s colourful puffins.

Download the guide from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.

Molescroft Hedgehog Highways Project

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Saturday 6 April, from 11am to 3pm

Pop by for light refreshments and a rolling programme of talks and activities at:

Molescroft Pavilion, Woodhall Way, HU17 7JR

Pop by for light refreshments and a rolling programme of talks and activities at Molescroft Pavilion. Come along for an informative and fun time

See how you can help local hedgehogs in many ways:

  • Learn about Wolds Hedgehog Rescue Centre & Molescroft Wildlife Network
  • Help identify local hedgehog highways
  • Help make hedgehog winter nests
  • Find out about wildlife gardening from Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
  • Become a Molescroft Hedgehog Champion

Happy Easter from MWN!

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Molescroft Wildlife Network has had a busy few months. Thanks to a Community Action Grant from East Riding Council & HEY Smile Foundation we:

  • Produced a leaflet, thank you to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for the help their wonderful design team gave us (please see below)
  • Volunteers delivered the leaflet to 3500 houses in 2 weeks, thanks to the swift work by volunteers from the Beverley Wombles, Civic Society, Molescroft Parish Councillors and MWN
  • We are arranging a Molescroft Hedgehog drop in fun day event on Sat 6 April. Ann Day from Wolds Hedgehog Rescue will be our keynote speaker. Thank you to Jo Rawson & Andy Steele, (YWT #TeamWilder),  Lucy Baldwin (North & East Yorkshire Ecological Data Centre), Anthony Hurd (Smile Foundation, Green and Blue Social Prescribing), and many others who have been very supportive and are contributing to this. 

The funding received from Molescroft Parish Council has enabled 2 Ecological Recovery Management plans to be commissioned. Recommendations are being drawn up by:

  • Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, for the Millennium Wildlife Haven 
  • Caring for God’s Acre, for St Mary’s Graveyard, Molescroft Road

Thank you to Molescroft Parish Council, St Mary’s Church and ERYC for their support with these. 

It has been remarkable how friendly and supportive individuals and organisations have been, it’s inspiring, thank you. 

The Great Big Nature Survey

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The Wildlife Trusts want to hear your opinions on some of the biggest questions surrounding nature and our collective role in caring for it.

  • How often do you spend time in nature, if at all?
  • Is nature important to you? If so, how important?
  • What, if any, roles should people, business, and government have in managing nature?

The Wildlife Trusts are running this survey to find out what people in the UK really think about nature and how we, as a society, should protect it. Results also help The Wildlife Trusts to hold the government to account over its environmental policies and priorities.

Please take the time to fill in the survey!

YRN Webinar – Community rewilding – panel discussion

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Join YWN for a live online discussion in which you will hear from a range of community rewilding groups across the region, discussing how they got started, their aspirations, challenges and suggestions about how others can get involved.

MWN’s own Karyn will be on the panel, talking about the genesis, successes and future plans of Molescroft Wildlife Network.

Please register to attend on the YRN website!!! and save the date! 28th February, 7.30pm.