At Wirral Countryside Volunteers (WCV) we need to ensure the safety and wellbeing of volunteers and organisers alike
Continuing the need to protect each other from the risk of COVID infection, we would still ask everybody to take the following precautions:
Date |
Event Description |
Location |
Booking Link |
October 2023 |
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Sunday 8th October Start Time: 09:30 |
Scything Calcareous grassland,coppicing, apple pressing and hedgelaying |
New Ferry Butterfly Park (Beside Bebington Station car park) |
Scything, Coppicing, Apple pressing and hedgelaying, EventBrite booking link |
Saturday 21st October Start Time 09:30 |
Hazel coppicing at Entrance Coppice and transplanting Hawthorn into the boundary hedgerows |
Thornton Wood Meet on Thornton Common Road by the bridge which crosses over the M53 |
Coppicing and Hawthorn transplanting, EventBrite booking Link |
Wednesday 25th October Start time 09:30 |
Hedge preparation ahead of the November training day |
Wood Park Farm, Neston |
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November 2023 |
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Saturday 4th November Start Time 09:30 |
FREE:Hedgelaying training day. We have another 'open to all' hedgelaying training day opportunity. No experience necessary but booking is essential. |
Wood Park Farm, Neston |
Booking needed for trainee attendees only |
Saturday 4th November Start Time 09:30 |
Hedgelaying Training day - Booking link for Trainers/Mentors only |
Wood Park Farm, Neston |
Booking for Trainer / Mentor attendees Only Hedgelaying Training Day - Trainer / Mentor, EventBrite booking link |
Saturday 4th November Start Time 09:30 |
Post hedgelaying meal and social event |
Seven Stars public house, Thornton Hough |
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Tuesday 7th November Start time 09:30 |
Hedgelaying: Laying old, well established hedges |
Bidston Golf Course |
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Sunday 12th November Start time 09:30 |
Workday at New Ferry Butterfly Park - closed season maintenance, monthly on every 2nd Sunday |
New Ferry Butterfly Park |
Workday At NFBP, EventBrite booking link - select the booking date |
Thursday 16th November Start Times: Meal 18:30 Meeting 19:30 |
Group meal followed by group meeting |
Three Stags Public House, Spital |
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December 2023 |
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Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd December Start time: 09:30 |
Coppicing weekend -entrance coppicing at Thornton Wood |
Thornton Wood - meet on the bridge over M53,Thornton Common Road |
Coppicing Weekend, EventBrite booking link Select your date or dates |
Saturday 9th December Start time: 19:30 |
Potluck Christmas gathering, please bring a contribution |
Paul's house |
Please book directly with Paul: |
Sunday 10th December Start time 09:30 |
Workday at New Ferry Butterfly Park - closed season maintenance, monthly on every 2nd Sunday: Bramble removal, Blackthorn clearance, embankment coppicing, turf removal and hedge laying |
New Ferry Butterfly Park |
Workday At NFBP, EventBrite booking link - select your booking date |
Wednesday 27th and 28th December Start time: 09:30 |
Thornton Common: hedge laying, Willow removal, Oak crown lifting, Oak pollarding and installing new lectern |
Thornton Common- Meet in Wirral Rugby Club car park on Thornton Common Road |
Thornton Common workday, EventBrite booking link - select your booking date |
January 2024 |
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Saturday 6th January Start time: 09:30 |
Sweet Chestnut Coppicing at Eastham Country Park |
Meet in car park of Port Sunlight Rugby Club, Warren Lane, CH62 3QQ |
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Sunday 14th January Start Time 09:30 |
Workday at New Ferry Butterfly Park - closed season maintenance, monthly on every 2nd Sunday |
New Ferry Butterfly Park |
Workday At NFBP, EventBrite booking link - select the booking date |
Monday 22nd January Start time: 19:45 |
Wirral Countryside Volunteers 37th Annual General Meeting and slide show |
Windsor Close Community Centre, Windsor Close, CH62 5BZ |
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February 2024 |
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Sunday 11th February Start time 09:30 |
Workday at New Ferry Butterfly Park - closed season maintenance, monthly on every 2nd Sunday |
New Ferry Butterfly Park |
Workday At NFBP, EventBrite booking link - select the booking date |
March 2024 |
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Sunday 10th March Start time 09:30 |
Workday at New Ferry Butterfly Park - closed season maintenance, monthly on every 2nd Sunday |
New Ferry Butterfly Park |
Workday At NFBP, EventBrite booking link - select the booking date |
April 2024 |
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Sunday 14th April Start time 09:30 |
Workday at New Ferry Butterfly Park - closed season maintenance, monthly on every 2nd Sunday |
New Ferry Butterfly Park |
Workday At NFBP, EventBrite booking link - select the booking date |
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
