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Event Description |
Location |
Booking Link |
2026 Wirral Countryside Volunteers 41st Year |
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MARCH |
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Wednesday 18th
Start time: 09:30 |
Working with WBC Rangers to lay the hedge along the bridle path at the Dawpool Nature Reserve. |
Wirral Way, meet in the car park at Thurstaston Visitor Centre |
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Wednesday 25th
Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying at Beeston: 30 meters of hedging to be laid |
Guerdon House Bettys Lane Beeston CW6 9ST |
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Sunday 22nd
Start time: 09:30 |
Tools sort out between the storage containers at NFBP |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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APRIL |
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Wednesday 1st
Start time: 09:30 |
Roadside hedge to be laid in Parkgate. Approx 45 meters of hedge, mainly, hand tools |
Station Road, Parkgate (Close to entrance of Parkfields car park) |
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Sunday 12th
Start time: 09:30 |
Workday at NFBP. Final preparations for NFBP open day |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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Saturday 25th
Start time: 09:30 |
Spring walk around the ancient woodland in Upper Dibbinsdale: Tom's Paddock, Foxes Wood and Thornton Wood |
Meet on Thornton Common Road where it crosses M53 |
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Sunday 26th
Start Time: 09:30 |
An adhoc work/maintenance day at NFBP. A group from Liverpool University has offered to help with last minute maintenance activities ahead of the open day. Repainting furniture and setting up tokens for Hide and Seek, amongst other activities. |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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MAY |
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Sunday 3rd
Start time: 09:00 |
Volunteers needed for setting up and supporting the re-opening on New Ferry Butterfly Park to visitors |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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Thursday 7th
Start time: 19:30 |
Tool maintenance evening - cleaning, sharpening and inspection the general condition of the tools used by WCV and NFBP - Select the ticket date/s from the link |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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Thursday 14th
Start time: 19:30 |
Cutting the centre of the ride and hedge weeding, followed by a short social in the Seven Stars in Thornton Hough. |
Wirral Rugby Club Car Park, Thornton Common Road CH63 0LT |
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Saturday 16th
Start time: 09:30 |
COOL HESWALL: As usual, WCV are planning to have a stall at this annual event, volunteers needed to assist. |
Hill House Gardens, Heswall (next to Heswall Hall) |
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JUNE |
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Thursday 4th; 11th; 18th; 25th
Start time: 19:30 |
Balsam pulling - the annual task of Himalayan Balsam pulling before the plant starts to flower. Choose your date/s via the booking link |
Thornton Wood. Meeting point is on Thornton Common Road by the bridge which crosses the M53 |
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Monday 29th
Start time: 19:30 |
WCV Group Meeting |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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JULY |
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Friday 3rd
Start time: 09:30 |
Poulton Hall - site preparation for Garden Open Day on 4th. Transporting and setting up gazebos tables etc., building the 'mock' hedge, setting up signs |
Poulton Hall Poulton Road Bebington Wirral CH63 9LN |
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Saturday 4th
Start time: 09:00 |
Poulton Hall - Garden Open day. Volunteers wanted for... Final set-up of gazebos and displays, car park management, making and serving cream teas, hosting the WCV stall, hedgelaying, hurdle making and tool sharpening demonstrations. |
Poulton Hall Poulton Road Bebington Wirral CH63 9LN |
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Thursday 16th
Start time: 19:30 |
Tool maintenance evening - cleaning, sharpening and inspection the general condition of the tools used by WCV and NFBP - Select the ticket date/s from the link |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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Sunday 19th
Start time: 09:30 |
Scything pondside grassland in the morning and scything in Charlie's Field in the afternoon followed by BBQ |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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AUGUST |
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Saturday 15th
Start time: 09:30 |
Scything the woodland ride and glade, plus hedge weeding |
Wirral Rugby Club Car Park, Thornton Common Road CH63 0LT |
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SEPTEMBER |
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Saturday 5th
Start time: 09:30 |
Completion of coppicing in Lamperloons Coppice, Thornton Wood |
Thornton Wood. Meeting point is on Thornton Common Road by the bridge which crosses the M53 |
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Wednesday 9th
Start time: 09:30 |
Completion of 'Hedge 23' - The hedge used for training in February, at Landican |
Landican Lane, near the Woodchurch Road end |
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Sunday 13th Start time: 09:30 |
Closing Day: Scything in the morning followed by a BBQ from 4pm. |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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Sunday 20th
Start Time 09:00 |
Shocklach Hedgelaying Match |
Details TBC |
Details and link TBC |
Wednesday 23rd
Start time: 09:30 |
Shocklach - post hedgelaying match tidy-up |
Moore Farm, Tilston Road, Shocklach, Cheshire |
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Wednesday 30th
Start time 09:00 |
Cheshire Ploughing and Hedge Cutting Society - Hedgelaying Match |
Details TBC |
Details and link TBC |
OCTOBER |
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Thursday 1st
Start time: 09:30 |
Preparation of the hedge ahead of the Groobarb's Field Kitchen training event |
Groobarbs Field Kitchen, Wild Farm, Mag Lane, High Legh, WA16 0AA, |
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Saturday 3rd
Start time: 09:30 |
Training Day at Groobarbs Field Kitchen: This event is being arranged by Groobarb's Kitchen with WCV providing the training expertise. Booking for WCV Trainers only |
Groobarbs Field Kitchen, Wild Farm, Mag Lane, High Legh, WA16 0AA, |
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Saturday 10th
Start Time: 09:00 |
National Hedgelaying Society - Annual hedgelaying Championship |
Chipping Norton OX7 5XE Details to follow |
Details on National Hedgelaying Society site: NHLS link (will be updated when info is available) |
Sunday 11th
Start time: 09:30 |
Workday at New Ferry Butterfly Park, our usual autumn and winter maintenance programme |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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NOVEMBER |
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Wednesday 4th
Start Time: 09:30 |
Preparation for the Hedgelaying Training Day. Ahead of our 23rd training day we need to prepare the hedge, marking out sections, breaking in, distribution hedging stakes etc... |
Landican Lane, near the Woodchurch Road end |
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Saturday 7th
Start time: 09:30 |
WCV 23rd Hedgelaying Training Day IMPORTANT NOTE: please select the correct ticket for your skill level - TRAINEE or TRAINER |
Landican Lane, near the Woodchurch Road end |
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Saturday 7th
Start time 17:00 |
Post Hedgelaying Meal - We'll be trying a new venue, Otto Lounge in Heswall. We will make the booking with the restaurant, as usual. Whilst the postal address is correct, the restaurant is on Mount Road, Heswall |
Unit 8, 139-141 Telegraph Rd, Heswall, Wirral CH60 7SE, United Kingdom |
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Sunday 8th
Start time: 09:30 |
Workday at New Ferry Butterfly Park, our usual autumn and winter maintenance programme |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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Wednesday 11th
Start Time: 09:30 |
Post Hedgelaying Training Day tidy-up |
Landican Lane, near the Woodchurch Road end |
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DECEMBER |
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Sunday 13th
Start time: 09:30 |
Workday at New Ferry Butterfly Park, our usual autumn and winter maintenance programme |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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At Wirral Countryside Volunteers (WCV) we take the safety and wellbeing of volunteers and organisers seriously.
From its beginnings WCV have held weekend tasks; much more recently these weekend tasks have been supported and extended by the “Intrepid Midweekers”, who have their own programme of tasks (though this often links to the main programme). Events are briefly described in the table below.
All events are fully assessed and the necessary Risk Assessments are completed and made available to all. All events are supported by the required support mechanisms, First Aiders, etc
TABLE KEY: |
New or rescheduled events |
Events at New Ferry Butterfly Park |
