Category: News and events

The Wildlife Trusts is running The Great Big Nature Survey 2024/25.

Take part with a chance to win a £100 high street shopping voucher.

Your responses will help The Wildlife Trusts shape policy and it is the largest four nations survey about your relationship with nature in the UK. Taking part is an opportunity to let The Wildlife Trusts how much nature matters to you, what kinds of threats you think nature is facing, and how you think nature should be protected.

Take the survey here.

Beverley Minster’s Secret Garden has recieved a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Wildlife Gardening Award.

For full details, and more information about the Minster’s Eco Church credentials, check out the news announcement on the Minster Web Site.

There are other Wildlife Gardening Award gardens around Beverley. Including one quite close to the centre of town. Do you know where it is?

Beverley has a diverse and inspiring voluntary and community sector, with Beverley residents at the heart.  Beverley Town Council is keen to understand how they can play a supporting role to those who are serving the community.

As part of their planning for their new Town Hall development, they want to ensure they provide a facility that the community needs and to do that, engaging with those organisations who support the community is crucial.

If you are ainterested, they would like your survey feedback here!

Friend of MWN, Anthony Hurd who is Programme Manager (Growing Green and Blue Health) for the HEY Smile Foundation, has released an August Newsletter. We’d encourage you to sign up to receive regular updates direct to your inbox, but in the meantime you can read the latest newsletter about what Andy and the HEY Smile team have been up to in the local area.

The Pesticide Collaboration is a UK-based coalition that unites health and environmental organizations, academics, trade unions, farming networks, and consumer groups. Their mission is to significantly reduce pesticide-related harm in the UK, aiming for a healthier future. The group engages in advocacy, research, and campaigns to promote safer and more sustainable pest control methods. They work towards influencing policy and raising public awareness about the dangers of pesticide use and the benefits of alternative solutions.

They are calling on the UK Government to phase-out the use of pesticides in publicly-run areas. This, in practice, will mean that pesticides would not be permitted for use in the streets, playgrounds and green spaces of our villages, towns and cities. 

Please sign the petition if you agree with their aims! https://pesticidecollaboration.org/go-pesticide-free/

Wild About Gardens has a great set of wildlife guides, that are applicable to the green spaces that you may have access to at home.

Take your pick from the following guides:

Lawns, ponds, worms, molluscs, bats, bees, beetles, hedgehogs, butterflies, swifts, swallows and martins.

Well that’s assuming there is some at some point!

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has you covered though, for all kinds of nature related summer fun in the last month of summer.

Check out their full set of summer suggestions on the YWT website.

Priority ponds are waterbodies that have a particularly high conservation value: usually because they support important freshwater species or rare community types. These ponds can be permanent or seasonal waterbodies and can span a wide size range: from one metre squared to two hectares.

Volunteers can now get involved by conducting a Priority Pond Assessment Survey (PASS) to identify a potential priority pond.

For more information check out the FHT Priority Ponds Scheme pages.

Beverley Guildhall is hosting a short film showing, from Klosk Tyrer, showcasing Beverley Westwood throughout the seasons. More details on opening times are here.