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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
details at
wastelessmarket.com
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
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EARLIEST RECORDED RETURN DATE FOR BARNEHURST SWIFT NESTING ZONE.There were 3 Swifts circling over the northern half of Hillingdon Road this evening (29/4), the same place as the first ones I saw in this area in 2024. This was my first check of the year, so they could have got back even earlier.
Previous 'first dates' for this 'site' are as follows:
2024 - 1/5. None seen in an hour of circuits on 30/4
2023 - 2/5. My first check of the year so they may have arrived earlier. One reported at Crossness 28/4
2022 -8/5 (checked from 28/4)
2021 - 6/5 (had last checked 3/5)
2020 - 2/5 (first date checked)
2019 - didn't monitor
2018 - 7/5 (had checked every evening starting 1/5)
2017 - 4/5 (no prior daily checks)
2016 - 4/5 (no prior daily checks)
2015 - 6/5 (no prior daily checks)
The earliest Swifts in London this year were one at Rainham on April 14th, and another on the same date at Staines Reservoir.
Chris Rose
HELP CLEAN UP THE LOWER RIVER CRAY !Join FRIENDS OF THE CRAY AT CRAYFORD on FRIDAY 2nd May
to tackle litter along the banks of the lower Cray,
Meet 10 a.m. at the junction of Footpath 106 and Barnes Cray Road (see graphic below).
The plan is to go downriver along By-way 105 this week before the undergrowth gets too dense.
All welcome, no particular skills needed.
Equipment will be provided. Wear appropriate clothing for being out in the open and avoiding stings from Nettles and scratches from Brambles, and bring something to drink.
Best wishes
Sarah
Category Archives: Environment
New budget consult: opportunity to support open space ‘maintenance’ reductions over sell-offs, plus more recycling and new energy-saving/light pollution measures
Bexley Council is consulting on further budget-savings proposals which could save open spaces, increase recycling and cut carbon emissions and light pollution, thereby benefiting wildlife and people. The deadline for responses is February 20th. It’s important that as many of … Continue reading
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Open spaces sell-off protest photocall – Sunday 8th Feb, Danson
Open Spaces sell-off: News Shopper PHOTOCALL – AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE WANTED! – Sunday 8th Feb., 10 a.m. Danson Park boathouse. Please ‘share’ with your local contacts. The News Shopper is now picking up on this story and is … Continue reading
Posted in Bexley, Bexley Council, BNEF, Budget, Consultations, Environment, Land sales, Open spaces, Parks, vegetation management
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FotS announces February events, including more at Danson Park
News just in from the Friends of the Shuttle, which has several events coming up. The next FotS clean-up is on the Shuttle on Thursday 12th February. We will be meeting at Crofton Avenue at 10.30, as always please let … Continue reading
Thames road bridges opposition group to meet in Bexley on 5th Feb.
A meeting is being held in Bexley Community Library, Bourne Rd, Bexley village, on Thursday 5th February at 12 noon, to begin building opposition in our Borough to Transport for London’s plans for 2 bridges that would generate more road traffic … Continue reading
Posted in Bexley, Environment, River Thames, Sustainability, Thames bridges, Traffic
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Free Public Lectures, Spring 2015 – Food Security (Birkbeck Institute of Environment, University of London with the Ecology and Conservation Studies Society and Linnean Society of London).
Friday evenings 13th February to 20th March 2015 at 18:30, Lecture Theatre B33, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London. World population projections show that there will be many more mouths to feed in coming decades. This need will follow the actual … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, Environment, Farming, Food security, Sustainability
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Environment Forum calls for Tesco tree reprieve as store plan collapses.
Troubled supermarket giant Tesco has today announced that it is abandoning plans for a new store on Bexleyheath Broadway on the site of the former Council offices, offering the prospect of a reprieve for an important row of trees. Given … Continue reading
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Latest outbreak of excessive ‘vegetation management’ sparks ‘Key habitat features’ list move
Several complaints about a ‘scorched earth’ approach to vegetation management along the River Shuttle over the past couple of weeks, have been relayed to noted local bird recorder Ralph Todd of Bexley RSPB, and further dismay was expressed by a … Continue reading
ERITH QUARRY – BEXLEY’S ‘LAST GREAT WILDERNESS’ – UNDER THREAT FROM PLANNING APPLICATION. PLEASE OBJECT! NEW DEADLINE WEDS 17th DECEMBER.
Chris Rose, Vice-chair Bexley Natural Environment Forum Erith Quarry, a Grade 1 Site of Importance for Nature Conservation, is now the subject of a planning application for 600 dwellings, which would see three quarters of its semi-natural habitat destroyed. London … Continue reading
Open space sell-offs – just say ‘no’ in budget consult (deadline Jan 9th)! Council still won’t provide list of sites. Adopts standard ‘party line’.
Despite a number of requests to different people within the Council from various local campaigners, prompted by the ‘BexleyWildlife’ web platforms and Bexley Natural Environment Forum, the Council is still refusing to make public the list of 27 sites (a … Continue reading
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Rally for Nature, London 9th December – lobby local MPs on Nature and Wellbeing Act
The RSPB is organising a lobby of MPs ahead of the General Election due next May, to try and persuade politicians to take nature seriously. In particular the opportunity will be taken to press the case for the ‘Nature and … Continue reading
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