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The Active Communities team, work across the East Riding to help improve opportunities for residents and groups to be more physically, mentally and socially active in their communities.

Taking part in this short consultation will help ERYC understand how active people are in their communities, whilst discovering any gaps and barriers to taking part.

ERYC’s aim is to use this data to improve and strengthen health and wellbeing provision in your community.

Please help the consultation out with your responses here.

Join a conversation with Plantlife and an expert panel of fungi enthusiasts to discuss the magical world of fungi, the threats to their survival and how we can all play our part in their future.

In this hour long webinar, some of the big questions will be posed to the panel and you’ll have a chance to ask your questions too.

Save the date Thursday 3 October, 7pm and register for the FREE event here.

There is an update on the 30th of September as for an update on progress of the Hull and East Yorkshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy (HEY LNRS). There will also be an opportunity to ask questions. This webinar will be recorded and uploaded to the East Riding of Yorkshire Council YouTube channel, where you can find previous HEY LNRS webinars available to watch. 

You can register for this Microsoft Teams event here: HEY LNRS

Reposted from the Wolds Hedgehog Rescue Facebook page:

After our successful Christmas sales last year we have been invited to even more fund raising events this year. To do this we need to increase the amount of hedgehog related crafts we make, to do that we need volunteer crafters who can help us. If you are interested in helping to make things and would like patterns, wool, material or advice, support or a demonstration on how to make something then please ask Ann on 07722483845.

Ideas of things we need help making:

Tote bags / rucksacks / Christmas boots / glitter wool hedgehogs / baubles – decoupage and other types / felted hedgehogs / key rings / wooden hedgehogs / wreaths / pinecone hedgehogs, just to name some.

If you can sew but not knit or knit but not sew then we can find you jobs and it’s not a problem. We would love to hear from you and invite you too our occasional crafting sessions. Without fund raising we can’t continue the work we do to the extent we do it.

Saturday 14th September – Saturday 12th October 2024

York Environment Weeks is a great opportunity to find out more about environmental issues and learn new skills. This year’s festival includes a range of talks, workshops and panel discussions, on everything from climate justice to how to have better conversations about climate change. Read on to find out what’s coming up in the next couple of weeks.

More information, and a full programme of events on the York Environment Weeks website!

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/