Thanks to your support, Binfield Environment Group is going from strength to strength. More people are joining our monthly work parties. Our membership, and the support we get on social media, continues to grow. We now know what we can do even more for Binfield’s nature, and everyone that benefits from it, if even more people are prepared to help.
You can help in any of the following ways.Please contact us if you are prepared to get involved with one or more of these, or if you think that there is something else that we should add to the list:
You can sponsor a street and litter-pick it regularly. This scheme is being administered by Binfield Parish Council. We are still looking for sponsors for some parts of the parish. (https://www.binfieldparishcouncil.gov.uk/help-to-keep-our-village-clean-tidy)
Bracknell Less Plastic are looking for someone to run the monthly pop-up shop in Foxes Den, so that their core team can start to set-up similar pop-up shops in other parts of Bracknell Forest. (See their Facebook group for more information on who they are and what they are doing).
There are now more than 50 bird and bat boxes around the parish, and we are looking for people to check that the boxes are still in place and whether they need maintenance. This would only need to be done once or twice a year and we could divide the parish up so that one person is not trying to visit all of them. If anyone is particularly keen we could also visit bird boxes in spring to see if any birds are using them and/or use bat detectors in the summer to see which bat boxes are in use.
You could come and join one of our monthly work parties, or even help run one (https://binfieldeg.wixsite.com/binfieldeg/upcoming or visit out Facebook group). Our next work party is on Saturday 21st March at Wicks Green.
You could conduct regular surveys of Wicks Green, Blue Mountain or another green-space of your choosing. Ideally this should be done once a month, taking about an hour of your time. You can choose whether you want to survey birds, butterflies, bees, plants, dragonflies or other insects.
This summer we will be surveying the swifts in Priestwood to try and work out where the best place to put swift nest boxes might be.
Don’t forget that 2020 is Bracknell Forest’s Year of the Garden and Bracknell Forest Council will soon be announcing various ways that we can all improve our own gardens, and community gardens, for nature. It is likely that this will be launched at the Jocks Lane Spring Day on April 5th.