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FRONT GARDENS NETWORK. LET'S STOP DRIVING NATURE OUT OF BEXLEY (and everywhere else).The loss of front gardens to hard surfacing and ‘bland-scaping’ is adding to flood risk, health-harming heat, and nature’s decline.
Front Gardens Network meeting with presentations and discussion: Thurs 15 May, 12.30pm to 1.30pm
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Please join us for the next online meeting of the Front Gardens Network on 15 May, 12.30-1.30pm.Alice Roberts, Head of Campaigns at CPRE London, will be giving an update on action being taken around L...
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HImalayan Balsam removal with Friends of the Cray at Crayford, Sunday 18th May.www.facebook.com/groups/5332550310104995/posts/24430636979869708/
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FREE Eco-MarketSaturday May 3rd 12-4p.m.
Christchurch, Bexleyheath Broadway, Bexleyheath
A variety of stallholders with a passion for their craft and protecting the planet, with a range of upcycled, natural and zero-waste products. Campbells Chutneys are joining us for the first time with not only delicious chutneys and pickles but also jam, marmalade, and chilli jam, hand made in Kent.
We'll have our Refills and Wasteless Essentials stall where you can fill up your own containers with household and personal care products.
Bring your hard to recycle packaging to recycle for charity - such as plastic wrappers, plasic bread bags, metal-ended Pringles tubes, inkjet cartridges and empty medicinal blister packs. Full
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CHARITABLE RECYCLING STATION Our Recycling Station is a drop off point for your hard to recycle items. We're diverting waste away from the incinerator and raising money for charity Recycling for chari...
UPCOMING LESNES HABITAT MANAGEMENT SESSIONS ......The first SUNDAY of each month 10am to 1pm. Meet outside CHESTNUT'S COFFEE KIOSK at 10:00 am. The group then collects tools and equipment from the yard that is opposite the toilets.
Next Sunday session will be 4th May.
Also every WEDNESDAY 10am to 1pm. Meet at the north side of the Lodge by the yard entrance.
Note: these events tend to involve fairly active work and may require walking with tools to remote parts of the woods, so a reasonable level of fitness is required.
All tools and materials provided.
Ffi: www.friendsoflesnesabbeyandwoods.com/get-involved/conservation
Category Archives: Barnehurst
Barnehurst Golf Course butterfly bonanza
Barnehurst Golf course has a good variety of habitats, and thus a good list of butterflies, which is one of the reasons why London Wildlife Trust have recommended that it be promoted from a ‘Local’ to a ‘Grade 2’ Site … Continue reading →
Posted in Barnehurst, Bexley, Butterflies, Dragonflies and Damselflies, Open spaces, Recording, SINC
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For the sake of Slow Worms, be careful with your compost heap!
For some years now there have been Slow Worms (Anguis fragilis) in my Barnehurst garden , and at some point one or more (the most was 5 at once) turn up in one of the compost heaps. Indeed there were … Continue reading →
Bursted Bluebells – removal of Spanish hybrids continues
The Bexley Council-approved volunteer project to remove Spanish-native hybrid Bluebells in Bursted Woods, Barnehurst, is now in its third spring. Neighbour and Bexley Wildlife Facebook follower John Holland helped me today and we had taken out a largish sack full … Continue reading →
Conserving some of Bexley’s rare plants
The latest e-mail from the Kent Botanical Recording Group, which is producing a comprehensive register of rare plants in the county (which in this case includes that part of west Kent that is now in Greater London) called for information … Continue reading →
Posted in Allotments, Barnehurst, Bexley, Bexley Woods, Bexleyheath, BNEF, Braeburn Park, Bursted Woods, Christchurch Bexleyheath cemetery, coppicing, Crayford Marshes, Crossness, Environment, Foots Cray Meadows, Hall Place, Heathland, Kent, London Wildlife Trust, Martens Grove, Mistletoe, Plants in Bexley, Recording, River Shuttle, SINC, Thames Road Wetland, vegetation management
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Environment Forum to host 19th March meeting for open space sell-off opponents
On behalf of Bexley Natural Environment Forum (the umbrella group for Friends of parks and open spaces and wildlife campaigners in the Borough), we are inviting campaigners to a meeting at Bexley (Village) Library next Thursday 19th at 3pm to … Continue reading →
Posted in Barnehurst, Bexley Council, BNEF, Budget, Friends of the Shuttle, Land sales, Open spaces, Parks, Uncategorized
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Barnehurst Conservatives won’t campaign to save park but will “push the case for a replacement”.
Local residents are receiving a letter from their local Conservative Councillors. As with their local Conservative MP, no commitment to campaign to save the park, but some ‘pushing for a replacement’. This response from a local resident says it all … Continue reading →
‘Consultation’ on Manor Way sell-off.
Just posted on the Save Old Manor Way Playground Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/saveoldmanorwayplayground **** Some of you may have already seen this, but I will post it just to make sure word is spread to everyone! This is a message sent … Continue reading →