Environment

21/03/2024

HWT webinar: Recovering Nature in the Lugg Valley

10th April, 6pm, online Find out about how Radnorshire Wildlife Trust and Herefordshire Wildlife Trust are working together to recover nature in the Lugg Valley. The webinar will be compered by James Hitchcock, CEO Radnorshire Wildlife Trust and include presentations on: Storing water in the uplands – Radnorshire Wildlife Trust’s Wilder Lugg project – Dan Westbury, Wilder Lugg Project Officer, Radnorshire Wildlife Trust Recovering floodplain plants on Lugg Meadows – David Hutton, Nature Reserves Officer, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust Creating wetland habitat at Bodenham Lake – Sarah King, Nature Recovery Manager, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust Wye Adapt to Climate Change? Recovering nature, and creating a climate-resilient landscape within the

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Citizen Science survey

HGN has been contacted by a PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London who is working on pollinator conservation and citizen intervention and is looking for participants for the second year of citizen science study ‘Optimow’. This study will be looking into how you can manage your garden to help bees, butterflies and other pollinators. In the study you will be given a mowing frequency to follow and then you will count pollinators in your garden each week. The study will take 15-25 minutes a week. This is the second year of the study. In 2023, there were an amazing

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15/03/2024

Building Sense Webinar

Home Energy Savers Webinar — new from Herefordshire Council Tuesday 19th March 12:45pm Click here to find out more and book on Eventbrite A brand new scheme to fund home energy assessments and to fund recommended retrofit works! The Home Energy Savers initiative is for households that want to make energy improvements to their homes but whose income means they don’t qualify for support from the national Home Upgrade Grant or some other incentives. It’s open to those with a household income over £36,000 per annum, and/or with disposable income available to spend on measures for their homes.

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REACH: An innovation project for rural communities

An exciting opportunity for rural communities in the South West, South Wales and the Midlands. Regen is working with National Grid Electricity Distribution on an innovation project focused on the decarbonisation of rural areas. REACH: Rural Energy and Community Heat. The project has been funded by network users and consumers under the Strategic Innovation Fund, an Ofgem programme managed in partnership with UKRI. The goal is to find 5-10 rural communities to work with over the next 2 months to co-create innovative approaches for meeting the local area’s decarbonisation ambitions. These will then be taken forward into a second round of project

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News from Herefordshire Food Alliance

HFA have been talking in their Steering Meeting about what they would ask potential General Election candidates about good food in Herefordshire?  The discussion has started and they’ve had a few ideas, which they will collate into a short briefing. Please get in touch if you have more.   You can see notes in the meeting minutes, all are in the ABOUT page and the 2024 folder is here. If you’d like to support the Herefordshire Food Alliance, on the Steering Team, with other work or by being part of our umbrella organisation New Leaf – please

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HWT Events

Herefordshire Wildlife Trust have a full programme of events aimed at all ages from Wild Adventure Club for 8 – 12 year olds to an immersive regenerative farm experience on Easter Sunday. For more details, and to book, Click here Click here to read the latest newsletter from HWT City Branch including volunteering opportunities and updates on their work on flooding. On Saturday 23rd March the HWT Ross group will be running a Wild About Gardens workshop. It runs from 9:30am to 12:30pm in the Baptist Church in Broad Street, Ross on Wye. Booking

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