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Event Description |
Location |
Booking Link |
2026 Wirral Countryside Volunteers 41st Year |
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JANUARY 2026 |
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Wednesday 28th
Start Time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying at Gilroy Park, West Kirby. This is a continuation of work already in progress at the park. |
Gilroy Park, Gilroy Road, West Kirby. CH48 6DP |
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FEBRUARY |
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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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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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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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UPDATED Monday 16th
Start time: 19:30 |
Group Meeting |
Change of venue: New Ferry Village Hall, Grove Street, New Ferry. CH62 5AZ |
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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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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 |
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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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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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Wednesday 4th
Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying at Gilroy Park, West Kirby. This is a continuation of work already in progress at the park. |
Gilroy Park, Gilroy Road, West Kirby. CH48 6DP |
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NEW Thursday 5th
Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying with Wild Ground volunteers at Rhydymwyn Valley Nature Reserve |
Rhydymwyn Valley Nature Reserve, 17 Nant Alyn Road, Rhydymwyn, CH7 5HQ |
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Saturday 7th
Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying at Gilroy Park, West Kirby. This is a continuation of work already in progress at the park. |
Gilroy Park, Gilroy Road, West Kirby. CH48 6DP |
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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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Wednesday 11th
Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying at Guilden Sutton. A lovely hedge at a stable yard, hand tools only. |
Belle Vue Farm Belle Vue Lane Guilden Sutton CH3 7EJ |
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UPDATED 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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NEW 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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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 |
