MWN Postbox Pocket Meadow Management

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A few members of MWN got together on Saturday to work on Postbox Pocket Meadow. The plan for the day was to do a late cut on the grass, and clear away the debris, and particularly the leaves that have accumulated on the spot. These provide too much nourishment to the ground, and discourage the succession of the plants we’d like to see growing.

The mow went surprisingly well given the damp grass, and the area was very vigorously raked, with the intention of disturbing as much of the grass as we could, in order to the the next phase. Which was adding some of our saved and donated yellow rattle seeds over the area and tamping them down with some very coordinated stomping! It was also great to engage a number of dog walkers and passer’s by to tell them what exactly we were up to.

We were incredibly lucky with the weather, as it was dry on the day, and nice and wet the next, ensuring that the seed would get a great chance to bed in. Be sure to keep an eye out from March to see how the patch is going!

MPC and MWN first working group meeting

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Molescroft Wildlife Network is pleased to announce that we had our first working group meeting with Molescroft Parish Council. We’ve been incredibly grateful to MPC for their support so far, and have enjoyed attending Parish Council meetings. This was the first opportunity we had to meet our new councillors and explain our goals around the Parish. It was an incredibly productive meeting and we look forward to many more to come!

Left to right: Cllr Adrian Costello, Steve Parkin (MWN), Cllr Mac Fleming, Angie Norman (MWN), Cllr Elaine Aird, Sharon Stone (MWN), Cllr Pam Lockyer

MWN receieve Beverley Area Community Trust Grant

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We are incredibly grateful to the Beverley Area Community Trust for a grant awarded to Molescroft Wildlife Network.

The Beverly Area Community Trust is funded through the use of clothing collection bins (the one in the car park at Molescroft Pavillions is one of these!), fundraising events and collection buckets, and provides small grant’s to local groups and organisations within the Beverley Area. (Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire) covering Beverley, Molescroft and Woodmansey.

We will be using the grant to procure more equipment and materials for running wildlife focused events.

Below: Steve, Sharon, Karyn and Sheila from MWN receive the award from Cllr Elaine Aird

A massive thank you to our volunteers!

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MWN would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who attended our volunteer event at St Mary’s Churchyard on 2nd August. This goes out to those who were there on the day and also those who helped in other ways such as lending us equipment. This was the first stage in enacting the ecological management plan that has been drawn up for the site by Caring for God’s Acre.

A dozen organisations took part in some way inclusing Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (YWT) #TeamWilder, Grahame Construction Ltd, ERYC, Molescroft Parish Council, St Mary’s Church, Beverley in Bloom, Beverley Urban Gardeners (BUG), Bleach Yard Stables, Beverley Minster Eco Church, Molescroft Grange Community Allotments and Beverley Wombles. Thank you for spreading the word about the event. 

Over 30 Volunteers came from all over Beverely and Molescroft and collected 2 trailer loads of arisings (vegetation left after ERYC cut). It was hard work, the networking was great fun. This was real community in action.

Molescroft Grange Community Allotments visit

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Molescroft Wildlife Network accepted a kind invitation from Molescroft Grange Community Allotments to visit their allotment site.

Molescroft Grange Community Allotments was set up on a four acre field on Molescroft Farm Estate that was too small for the large machinery used in modern arable farming. The allotments are managed by the not-for-profit arm of the main farm, Molesfarm Community Projects. This business also receives funding for transport to Open Farm School Days for disadvantaged children, and the initial startup funding came from the National Lottery’s “Awards for All” in 2012.

We discussed how the allotment community are working to improve biodiversity on the site, whilst keeping the allotments productive and showed an impressive wildflower meadow area, and a rapidly establishing pond ecosystem that was buzzing with inverterbrate activity. MWN members old and new had a fantastic walk around the allotments, and look forward to working with the Molescroft Grange Community Allotments in future.

A big thank you to the Smile Hull Vault

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Molescroft Wildlife Network, recently put on a Hedgehog Highway Event at the Molescoft Pavilion, Beverley. We invited every household in Molescroft through a leafletting campaign. On the day we had several stalls which included Molescroft Wildlife Network, Wolds Hedgehog Rescue, the National Hedgehog Monitoring Project, HEY Smile Foundation Green and Blue Social Prescribing, hedgehog hibernacula construction, a display of emperor moths and childrens activities.

Throughout the day we had short presentations which were very well attended. This was our first event and we were all delighted how it went. We received many positive comments. One hundred and fifty people attended the day which was amazing. It was encouraging to see lots a happy, enthusiastic people enjoying conversation about hedgehogs and nature.

However, this would not have been possible without the help of Smile Hull Vault. We were loaned two collection boxes and were able to raise £40. Alongside this two display boards and an easel to provide information about the Molescroft Wildlife Network were provided by the Smile Hull Vault, which were amazing for community engagement.

However the biggest impact was the loan of a large projection screen and projector for our very well attended programme of presentations from the groups that also had stalls at the event. These were high quality items loaned, and in excellent condition and there’s no way that as a small group with limited funding so we would have been able to deliver an event as well as we did without these loans from Smile Vault Hull. The Vault is easy to use and collectionand return of items is straightforward.

A big thank you to The Vault and we look forward to out next event 2025!

MWN recieve the Jubilee Award from MPC

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The Jubilee Award is a silver cup presented by Molescroft Parish Council to individuals or organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to our community. Only ten presentations have been made from 2000 toi 2023.

It is also referred to as the Millennium Cup because it coincided with the creation of the Millennium Park in 2000.

This made the presentation to Molescroft Wildlife Network particularly memorable because of our present work at Millennium Wildlife Haven.

MWN and Molescroft Grange Community Allotments

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Molescroft Wildlife Network met with representatives of Molescroft Grange Community Allotments.

Molescroft Grange Community Allotments were set with help from the Lottery’s “Awards for All” in 2012 by the not-for-profit arm of Molescroft Farm Estate, called Molesfarm Community Projects.

We had interesting and entertaining conversations and very much look forward to to working together in the future.