Category: MWN in action

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. 

You can now watch the Yorkshire Rewilding Network’s panel discussion featuring Karyn from MWN on Youtube! Or rewatch it if you want to enjoy it again!

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.

Molescroft Wildlife Network is pleased to announce that we have been awarded an East Riding Community Action Grant to implement the Molescroft Hedgehog Highway Project. This award is for £1,500 and marks our second successful grant application is as many months.

We would like to thank Smile Foundation, Molescroft Parish Council, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust #TeamWilder and Wolds Hedgehog Rescue Centre for their help with this. 

This week Karyn, Grant and Helen met with Jennifer Woollin who is the new Team Leader for Nature Conservation and Trees for East Riding of Yorkshire Council.

MWN took Jennifer around our sites and shared information about the group and our aims and Jennifer shared news about her new role at ERYC.

Jennifer has previously worked as the Open Spaces Development Officer for Hull City Council and as an Ecologist for Wold Ecology Ltd. so brings a wealth of knowledge about biodiversity and working with local groups in the region.

Karyn and Helen attended the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust AGM at Drewton. We joined the #TeamWilder staff, Jo and Andy, on stage to contribute to their presentation, and to thank the YWT staff and members for all their support.

The connection between Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, #TeamWilder and Molescroft Wildlife Network highlights the benefits of working together for nature.

Molescroft Wildlife Network were invited by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to share their presentation stage and stall at the Beverley Ecofair in October. Held at Beverley Minster, the Eco Fair also featured the Gaia artwork by Luke Jerram, a seven metre wide illuminated globe created from detailed NASA imagery of the Earth’s surface.

Over three thousand people attended and Helen and Angie were kept busy on the stall, with Dan’s slideshow of our activities playing all day. Helen also joined the #TeamWilder talk from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust to highlight the benefits of working together for nature.

MWN members took a trip to Molescroft Farm Estate with Jon Traill from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. The invite was kindly extended by Tamara Hall, Managing Director of the family-run Molescroft Farm Estate. The farm is run according to Conservation Agriculture principles, with over 10% of the farm estate managed primarily for wildlife and the environment through Higher Tier Environmental Stewardship. A meeting of minds, all dedicated to working together to restore nature in Molescroft.

Karyn Murby (MWN), Tamara Hall (Molescroft Farm Estate) and Jon Traill (Yorkshire Wildlife Trust) pictured at Molescroft Farm Estate. Picture credit: (c) Helen Kitson