Avon Wildlife Trust

🌱 Are you keen to level up your growing?🌱 We have a series of day courses running at our Grow Wilder site through March and April that will help you learn to plan, plant and prune your outdoor spaces. 🌻 Soil Health and Management on Friday 7 March 🍎 Planning your annual veg production on Friday 14 March 🌿 Water Systems and Plant Health on Friday 21 March 🐝 Ecology for Growers on Friday 28 March 💚 Therapeutic Horticulture on Friday 4 April Go to https://lnkd.in/eJUimkrn to find out more!

What wildlife have you seen this month? Here are some top tips to help you see more when you're out in nature 💚🌱🐾

Ready, sett, go! 🦡 Badgers’ setts aren’t just intricate networks of underground tunnels, but an amazing asset for neighbouring wildlife. Setts help create space for masses of moss, encourage plant diversity, provide homes for our amphibian friends and refuge for other mammals such as foxes, rabbits, wood mice and voles 🌱🐸🦊 You can read more about our Species of the Month, and why they're brilliant for biodiversity, over on our blog 👉 https://lnkd.in/eMCCAmaD

📣 Calling all schoolteachers and youth group leaders 📣 Sign up for the #HedgehogWalk 🦔 is now officially open – the perfect adventure for the young people you care for this spring! This is their chance to explore nature, fundraise for the wildlife on their doorstep and have fun doing it with their favourite characters from Aardman’s Timmy Time! However you take part, you’ll be helping young people nurture a greater love and appreciation for nature this spring whilst supporting a great cause and improving physical and mental well-being. 💚 Join us by signing up today 👉 https://lnkd.in/erRZ75HS

Are you looking for your next role? 🔍 We’re actively recruiting for three roles in the Avon Wildlife Trust team. Could you share your love for nature as one of our nature-loving educators in our learning team this season? Perhaps you could join our Grow Wilder Support Crew to help during the busy growing season? Maybe you’re looking for a volunteer Trustee role where you can make a difference for people and for nature? Head over to our vacancies page to find out more about these roles and to apply. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dSZVXiRg #WildlifeJobs #NatureEducation #ConservationCareers #VolunteerOpportunities

Could you share your love for nature? 🦔 We are looking for nature-loving educators to join our learning team this season. You will lead inspiring nature-based activities for school groups on a flexible contract, based at our stunning Folly Farm learning centre and reserve. We are looking for people with experience of leading environmental education activities for early years, primary and/or secondary, and a love and curiosity for nature. This is a great opportunity to develop your teaching skills and nature knowledge through leading a wide variety of outdoor activities for visiting school groups. We’re reviewing applications as they are submitted, so apply today. To find out more, visit our website 👉 https://lnkd.in/ePCqh2q3 #EducationJobs #CharityJobs #OutdoorLearning

🦡 Breaking the back of the week with some badger bedding facts 🦡 Did you know that badgers like to 'air out' their bedding? Click through our post to read how and why!

Could you help us win £5,000 for local wildlife? The Benefact Group are running their annual Animal and Wildlife 'Movement for Good' charity special draw from Monday 17 - Sunday 23 February, where you can nominate us to be one of 10 charities who received £5,000! It only take one minute and could make a huge difference for the nature on your doorstep: https://ow.ly/vWV950V1loP

Are you looking for a Trustee role where you can make a difference for people and for nature? 💚 Avon Wildlife Trust is seeking two new trustees to join our Board. You will help provide strategic direction for the charity and help us achieve our vision of nature recovering on a grand scale, with everyone able to enjoy increasingly abundant wildlife. We are particularly looking for candidates with experience in, Fundraising  Charity governance, or Finance For more information, please visit our website 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5wDBtYN #TrusteeVacancy #CharityTrustee

Grenville's wildlife garden 💚 is an inspiration, so we are delighted that his small, urban garden in St George, Bristol is being featured on the #BBCTheOneShow this evening from 7pm! It's really important to have relatable gardens and know that small actions for nature collectively make a huge difference! Grenville and Alan have included many important habitats in their garden space, entirely made up of pots! 🐦Bird feeders 💦 mini ponds 🐝 pollinator friendly plants 🌻 subtle uses of colour, texture and smell make this garden a truly special place for people and wildlife. It raises our spirits and hope about what can be achieved in this garden and their local community. Check out the One Show this evening and look at the blossoming inspiration in Grenville's story: https://lnkd.in/eUa9btTN