Encouraging a biodiverse parish
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.
We are delighted to announce that Molescroft Wildlife Network (MWN) was successful in raising funds to develop two Ecological Recovery Management Plans. One by Caring For God’s Acre for St Mary’s Graveyard, Molescroft Road, the other by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for the Millennium Wildlife Haven. For more information on our sites please see this page.
We would like to thank Molescroft Parish Council which has always been very supportive and has now agreed to fund these crucial elements in supporting biodiversity, community and educational improvements within Molescroft Parish.
Getting these management plans in place has been a long held goal of MWN since inception and provides us with a strong professional grounding in working on recovering biodiversity at these Molescroft Parish sites.
Left to right: Karyn, Dan, Helen, Sharon, Grant and Angie at an MWN meeting in November 2023
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