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Event Description |
Location |
Booking Link |
2025 Wirral Countryside Volunteers 40th Year |
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NOVEMBER |
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Wednesday 19th Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying on the Wirral Way in the Parkgate area. The hedge concerned is mainly tall Sycamore |
Wirral Way, Parkgate. Meet in the Old Baths Car Park (access road is by the Boathouse pub) |
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Wednesday 26th Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying in Willaston - Day 1: Circa 150 mtrs of mainly well established Hawthorn to be laid |
5 Oaks, Street Hey Lane, Willaston, Neston.CH64 1SS |
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Saturday 29th Start time 09:30 |
Hedgelaying in Willaston - Day 2: Circa 150 mtrs of mainly well established Hawthorn to be laid |
5 Oaks, Street Hey Lane, Willaston, Neston.CH64 1SS |
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DECEMBER |
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Wednesday 3rd Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying in Willaston - Day 3: Circa 150 mtrs of mainly well established Hawthorn to be laid |
5 Oaks, Street Hey Lane, Willaston, Neston.CH64 1SS |
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Saturday 6th Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying in Willaston - Day 4: Circa 150 mtrs of mainly well established Hawthorn to be laid |
5 Oaks, Street Hey Lane, Willaston, Neston.CH64 1SS |
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Wednesday 10th Start Time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying in Willaston - Day 5 (if needed): Circa 150 mtrs of mainly well established Hawthorn to be laid |
5 Oaks, Street Hey Lane, Willaston, Neston.CH64 1SS |
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Saturday 13th Start Time: 19:30 |
Pot luck buffet at Paul and Philippa's in Bebington |
Paul and Philippa's - details to follow |
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Sunday 14th Start time: 09:30 |
Workday at NFBP. Hedge laying, turf removal and other maintenance tasks |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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NEW Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th Start time: 09:00 |
Oak pollarding, Willow removal, Hedgelaying, Bonfire, and scything the ride and glade. Select ticket/s from the link. |
Thornton Common, Thornton Common Road. Park in Wirral Rugby Club car park |
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JANUARY 2026 |
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NEW Wednesday 7th
Start time: 09:30 |
Day 1 of 4. More hedgelaying at Home Farm, Landican. Hedge 19: is a hedge with circa 170 mtrs to complete |
Landican Lane, near the Woodchurch Road end |
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NEW Sunday 11th
Start time:09:30 |
Workday at NFBP. Hedge laying, turf removal and other maintenance tasks |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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NEW Wednesday 14th
Start time: 09:30 |
Day 2 of 4. More hedgelaying at Home Farm, Landican. Hedge 19: is a hedge with circa 170 mtrs to complete |
Landican Lane, near the Woodchurch Road end |
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NEW Monday 19th
Start time: 19:30 |
Wirral Countryside Volunteers 40th Annual General Meeting |
Windsor Close Community Centre, Windsor Close, New Ferry. CH62 5BZ |
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NEW Wednesday 21st
Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying at Shocklach. Following the annual hedgelaying competition at Moore Farm there is a section of the hedge, beyond the pond, to complete |
Moore Farm, Shocklach, Malpas Cheshire SY14 7BJ |
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NEW Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th Start Time: 09:30 |
Hazel coppicing and lifting shade from coppice area. Select ticket/s from the link |
Meet on Thornton Common Road where it crosses M53 |
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FEBRUARY |
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NEW Wednesday 4th
Start time: 09:30 |
Day 3 of 4. More hedgelaying at Home Farm, Landican. Hedge 19: is a hedge with circa 170 mtrs to complete |
Landican Lane, near the Woodchurch Road end |
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NEW Sunday 8th
Start time: 09:30 |
Workday at NFBP. Coppicing, hedgelaying and turf removal |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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NEW Wednesday 11th
Start time: 09:30 |
Day 4 of 4. More hedgelaying at Home Farm, Landican. Hedge 19: is a hedge with circa 170 mtrs to complete |
Landican Lane, near the Woodchurch Road end |
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NEW Monday 16th
Start time: 19:30 |
Group Meeting |
Windsor Close Community Centre, Windsor Close, New Ferry. CH62 5BZ |
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NEW Wednesday 18th
Start time: 09:30 |
Hedge preparation - ahead of our 22nd 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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NEW Saturday 21st
Start time: 09:30 |
WCV 22nd Hedge Laying Training Day IMPORTANT NOTE: please select the correct ticket for your skill level - TRAINEE or TRAINER |
Landican Lane near the Woodchurch Road end |
WCV 22nd Hedgelaying Training: Ticket Tailor link |
NEW Saturday 21st
Start time: 17:00 |
Post hedge laying training day meal. Note, this is not funded by WCV. |
Seven Stars, Thornton Hough, CH63 1JW |
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NEW Wednesday 25th
Start time: 09:30 |
Post training day tidy up - finishing off any sections which were not completed during the training day, tidying brash, removal of unused hedging stakes, etc... |
Landican Lane, near the Woodchurch Road end |
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MARCH |
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NEW Sunday 8th
Start time: 09:30 |
Workday at NFBP. Final vegetation management of the year before the Park re-opens, Coppice gate construction and plug planting of wildflowers |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
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NEW 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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NEW 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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NEW 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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MAY |
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NEW 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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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
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New or rescheduled events |
Events at New Ferry Butterfly Park |
