Lucy Wheeler

Show your love for the planet this Valentine's Day - come and join us!

✅ Vote for nature! Entries close on 30th January!
Our #IDigTrees film for the #SmileyCharityFilmAwards shows volunteers across the UK creating #BetterNatureForAll! smileycharityfilmawards.com/films/tcv-i-...
Please watch & vote to help TCV continue positive action for climate, wildlife & communities

Giving the damp birds in our Wildlife garden a bit of love Hollybush Project style!

They say it never rains but it pours. This week at Hollybush it has been raining inside as the lack of heating from the broken boiler means pipes burst in the loft and water cascaded down through the building.

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Always the most inconvenient time! We lost the boiler at Hollybush this week and it is going to be fiendishly expensive to fix so we have started this. If you are able to help or share we will be immensely grateful Thank You!

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TCV I Dig Trees - join the movement... This film celebrates 10 years of I Dig Trees , the UK’s largest community-led tree planting programme from The Conservation Volunteers (TCV).

I think our new I Dig Trees film is genuinely uplifting! Have a watch and if you agree you can vote for it in the Smiley Charity Film Awards below
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Celebrating Our Local Environment Protector! 💪🌍Our Second #TCVHeroes winner for 2025 is none other than Harrison Ngunjiri — a true champion of community & nature! 🎉
Harrison has been a dedicated volunteer with #TCVLondon for over 13 years, attending an incredible 846 sessions! youtu.be/YVXKJNZH1-w

Great opportunity to do Outdoor First Aid in Leeds coming up soon, please share with anyone who might be interested Thanks

Great to be listening to a panel discussion on decarbonisation powered by waste where all the delegates are women

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

Come and work for us at Hollybush! Please share with your contacts who might be interested. Thanks
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🌿Introducing TCV’s Strategy 2025–2030: Better Nature for All 🌿

TCV's new 5-year strategy focuses on connecting people together to protect and restore nature, delivering lasting benefits for both.

We believe that when nature thrives, so do people - and we’re taking bold steps to make that happen.

30 by 30 also needs to be a conversation for regional Combined Authority areas too. What would this look like? What role could urban forests and National Park cities play? What part of this could be de-paving, de-contaminating? We have hardly started to wrestle with these questions

Petting the therapy dog

A ronin in the Hollybush garden

Lots of excitement in the Hollybush Project classroom today – a visit from Charlie the therapy dog! Meanwhile it’s been a bright and frosty day in the garden. The robins were very keen to get stuck into their breakfast mealworms.
#wildlifegarden #nature #naturegarden #robin

This is an excellent result. We were discussing today how it can be a powerful tool for building a sense of who we are as Leeds for every child growing up in the city. Our Victorian routes and shared history, regardless of whether, like me you were reckless enough to be born somewhere else

🌱 Are you a green or nature-based social prescribing practitioner?
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Survey closes: 16 Feb 2025, 18:00 GMT
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A single lit candle in front of a black background. There is white text that says Holocaust Memorial Day.

Today, we honour the victims of the darkest periods in our world’s history.

May the lessons of the past never be forgotten.

We must stand together, against prejudice and hatred, and strive for a future rooted in unity and compassion.

#HolocaustMemorialDay

Leeds will host a section of The Baton of Hope on the 10th of September 2025!

People who may have been bereaved or affected by suicide of anybody close to them, can apply to carry the Baton of Hope. Apply by 31 March 2025: batonofhopeuk.org/become-a-bat...

Bristol City Council to officially recognise Care Experienced as a Protected Characteristic

Great news as Bristol City Council is to officially recognise Care Experienced as a Protected Characteristic 🎉.

The recommendation was unanimously approved at Full Council this week.

More info:
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Can the Nature Restoration Fund really restore nature? This post is by Richard Benwell, chief executive of Wildlife and Countryside Link. In his excellent blog, ‘We can make space for nature and people’, Tony Juniper is right that the current planning …

Good analysis that actually allows for nuance - rarer than a Great Crested Newt
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I was in despair about the environmental crisis. Then I volunteered to clean up my local park ‘Instead of sobbing in front of your computer screen,’ my counsellor said, ‘go out and do something’

This will cheer up a dark evening! Thanks @johnpleeds.bsky.social
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Lovely article @johnpleeds.bsky.social and we watch it happening day after day. As we have always said #JoinInFeelGood

The Unseen Crises of Human-Nature Connection Too often, we are oblivious to interconnectedness and our relationship with nature. Over the last three years, me and over 100 leading experts from over 40 countries have been working on changes ne…

This encapsulates where my thinking is now after more than thirty years working across nature conservation and environmental education. This is the shift we need to make, we are so not there yet. Bear with it's academic framing, the message is spot on 🌍

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Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture on LinkedIn: RISE: Highlights | 21 comments 🙏 Thank you so much to every single one of you who came to City park over the last two nights for RISE, the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture opening… | 21 comments on LinkedIn

Wonderful weekend for Bradford to start their year as City of Culture, a genuine burst of light in the darkness
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National Trust to restore nature across area bigger than Greater London Charity reveals plans to create 250,000 hectares of nature-rich landscape as it marks 130th anniversary

Hopefully 2025 can be the year where people stop seeing things in microcosm and mainstream thinking landscape scale, connectivity and permeability, for wildlife as well as water www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

How do you solve a problem like Willow Tit? With news of yet another county extinction in Warwickshire, things are looking bleak for Britain's second fastest declining bird (Turtle Dove takes the unwanted crown of No 1). Even more worryingly, f...

Timely and urgent reminder of the fundamental complexity and inter-dependencies of connections within habitats that we might think we understand, and therefore the risks baked into that assumption
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Anti-cycling stories are bad for the UK’s health, says Chris Boardman Racing champion turned active travel advocate criticises parts of the media for safety scaremongering

Here in snowy Yorkshire at @tcvhollybush.bsky.social we are busy supporting walking and cycling in our role as an Active Travel Hub @westyorkshireca.bsky.social @mayorofwy.bsky.social nehttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/dec/30/anti-cycling-stories-bad-health-chris-boardman-active-travel

what this chart actually represents is the triumph of petrostates and the vested interests in the status quo over the well-being of the rest of humanity

Potato Day flyer

Just a reminder that our next weekend event is Potato Day on 16th February. Last year the seed swap was a roaring success, so if you're sorting your seed boxes over the next couple of weeks, do put aside anything you don't need to swap for something new to you. #potatoday #seedswap #growyourown

RSPB stops selling flat bird feeders owing to deadly finch disease Feeding birds from flat surfaces such as tables could be contributing to spread of finch trichomonosis, says charity

Worth knowing about if you feed birds…….
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