Upcoming events……

Swift Nest Box Belfry Tour – Ruan Minor & Landewednack
Apr
26

Swift Nest Box Belfry Tour – Ruan Minor & Landewednack

Swift Nest Box Belfry Tour – Ruan Minor & Landewednack | Sat 26 April

Join us for a special behind-the-scenes look inside two historic church belfries where swifts are finding new homes!

Saturday 26th April – Limited to 10 places

We’re inviting you to view recently installed swift nest boxes and call systems at:

• St Rumon Church, Ruan Minor at 12:00pm

• Followed by St Wynwallow Church, Landewednack at 1:00pm

These innovative installations are helping swifts return to our skies — and you’ll get to see how it’s done. Expect ladders, winding staircases, and a touch of adventure!

Bonus: The visit to St Wynwallow will be filmed by Prefigure Earth, a new platform spotlighting grassroots environmental action. If you’re inspired to say a few words on camera about your love for swifts — fantastic! But there’s no pressure.

Places are limited to 10, so please RSVP by email:

wildlifegroundswell@gmail.com

Locations:

• St Rumon Church – TR12 7JL – [What3Words: chilling.showrooms.december]

• St Wynwallow Church – TR12 7PH – [What3Words: comedians.shuts.resold]

Let’s celebrate and support swift conservation together!

#Swifts #CornwallWildlife #WildlifeGroundswell #SwiftNestboxes #ChurchBelfries

email us to tell us you are coming: wildlifegroundswell@gmail.com

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Dry Tree/Goonhilly Downs – Practical volunteering 
Apr
29

Dry Tree/Goonhilly Downs – Practical volunteering 

Tues 29 April 10:00-14:00 Dry Tree/Goonhilly Downs – Practical volunteering 

Access development work. Footpath enhancement work including digging, levelling and laying stone to create a more inclusive and accessible track. This track will create a sustainable infrastructure for visitors which will support the health and development of the adjacent ground conditions. The session will be within the heathland and lots of opportunities to explore and learn about the local flora and fauna.

Meet at Goonhilly Downs Car Park at 10am w3w anyway.tidal.bitter

If you are interested in volunteering with either or both of the above events, click on the links below to reach Chris Waddle NNR Engagement and Visitor Experience Higher Officer for Devon and Cornwall Team, Natural England

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Fund raising for Wildlife Groundswell at Porthleven Food Fair with Albatross Gallery
May
2
to 4 May

Fund raising for Wildlife Groundswell at Porthleven Food Fair with Albatross Gallery

Fund raising for Wildlife Groundswell at Porthleven Food Fair with Albatross Gallery

Friday - Sunday 2-4 May

Huge thanks to Albatross Gallery for this lovely idea. Here are some words from Kath...

Wildlife Groundswell are doing great things for people and nature on the Lizard Peninsula. We’re all inspired daily by the natural world and the wildlife on our doorstep so we want to give something back. It’s also a way to celebrate all the inspirational artists and the hard work that everyone does over the whole year.

Come along - we’ll be serving cupcakes (on a tall Cornish-ware cake stand) and English sparkling wine while you try your hand - or demonstrate - painting some stunning botanical art. Let’s face it: I’m hardly the expert!

Please drop in during PFF between 2nd-4th May!

If you’d like to join in but can’t make it, simply paint a pansy on 6x6” paper and donate it to the cause. At close of events, paintings will be offered for sale with proceeds also going to charity.  There's wonderful guidance from Helen Botanics - see link here. You can also donate direct to Wildlife Groundswell - see link here

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🌿 May the 4th Be With You! 🌿
May
4

🌿 May the 4th Be With You! 🌿

🌿 May the 4th Be With You! 🌿

 

The first 2025 get-together of the Any-Size Landowners’ Group is happening soon!

📍 Location: Mount Carlees Farm, Ruan Minor, TR127LL
📅 Date: Sunday, 4th May
⏰ Time: 12 noon – 2 PM

All welcome (even if you don’t have a garden). Or perhaps you have a piece of land—large or small—that you manage with wildlife enhancement in mind, come along and connect with like-minded people! It’s a great chance to share ideas, experiences, and inspiration.

More details will be shared in the next newsletter—stay tuned!

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Invertebrate monitoring introduction day Goonhilly Downs
May
6

Invertebrate monitoring introduction day Goonhilly Downs

Tues 6 May 10:00-14:00 Invertebrate monitoring introduction day Goonhilly Downs, meet Higher Bochym, NE office TR12 7AZ w3w straying.ooze.stiletto

An opportunity to explore the NNR and learn about its invertebrates. We will host a discussion and presentation of monitoring projects for a variety of species. The plan is to hopefully build a plan of long-term surveying and monitoring to suit people’s interest and availability. If you have any particular interest or skills/specialism, please feel free to bring any guides or books to engage others. We will be working with local specialists and the NNR team to pull together a list of projects that are relevant to nature recovery and the NNR management plan

If you are interested in volunteering with either or both of the above events, click on the links below to reach Chris Waddle NNR Engagement and Visitor Experience Higher Officer for Devon and Cornwall Team, Natural England

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Migration on the Lizard – What to expect month to month
Apr
21

Migration on the Lizard – What to expect month to month

🌍 Migration on the Lizard – What to expect month to month

📅 Monday, April 21
🕠 7:30 PM
📍 Camel Barn, Rosuick Farm, TR126DZ

Join us for an evening with Dougy Wright, wildlife warden at Windmill Farm, as we explore the incredible journeys of migrating species on the Lizard—birds, butterflies, and more!

Free to attend—everyone’s welcome! Bring your curiosity (and a friend or two) for an engaging talk and discussion.

Hope to see you there!

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Bat Group Social
Apr
10

Bat Group Social

🦇 Join Us for a Bat Group Social!

📅 Thursday, April 10
🕖 7:00 PM
📍 St Martin Parish Hall (TR12 6BP)

The Wildlife Groundswell Bat Group is gathering for a fun and informal evening to plan our 2025 bat surveys. Whether you’re an experienced bat enthusiast or just curious, come along and help decide where we’ll explore—historic farmsteads, old churches, and wooded valleys.

Everyone’s welcome! Bring your ideas (and a friend or two). Admission is free, and it’s a great chance to meet fellow wildlife lovers.

We’d love to see you there!

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Future Projects Meeting
Apr
9

Future Projects Meeting

🦋Next Wildlife Groundswell 'Future Projects' meeting

📅 Wednesday 9th April
🕠 7:00 PM
📍 Camel Barn, Rosuick Farm, TR126DZ

All welcome, please come along with your ideas for helping wildlife on the Lizard.

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Trees and Hedgerows Project
Jan
9

Trees and Hedgerows Project

Trees and Hedgerows project

Formation of a new Wildlife Groundswell ‘Trees and Hedgerow’ group

For some time now Wildlife Groundswell has been thinking about forming a new “Trees and Hedgerows” subgroup but we have been so busy recently with other activities that we just did not get around to it. Until now.

So now we are putting the call out to you, our supporters, with the question: would you like to see WG actively promoting tree and hedgerow projects? And if yes, then more importantly: would you like to participate in tree projects?

Tree projects might involve town or village communities, schools, individuals; private land or community areas, parks, green spaces, road verges, hedges, existing neglected woodland, education, outreach, community tree nurseries, urban areas, with many ways to mix and match these as the opportunity arises.

Successful projects tend to be less about the trees and more about people. Planting trees is the easy part. Essential for every project are people and their ideas, vision, enthusiasm, local knowledge and contacts. For success the project will need organisers, networkers and fundraisers – as well as people to plant and maintain the trees.

If you are interested, then please bring your ideas, talents and enthusiasm to a brainstorming meeting at Rosuick Farm Wagon House on Thursday 9th January at 7.30pm

Please write to wildlifegroundswell@gmail.com in advance of the meeting to say you intend to come, or if you would like to be involved but cannot attend the meeting, please write to say so.

Justin Evens

Farm Wagon House on Thursday 9th January at 7.30pm



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Join us to help identify and count bats
Jul
23

Join us to help identify and count bats

Upcoming Bat Walks…..

Join us to help identify and count bats

We have some spare bat recorders but please bring one if you have one.
See links below for directions to the above venues.

Tuesday 23rd July 8.30pm (sunset time = 9.03pm)

  • Treprenn Vean, Coverack

  • Directions:
    TR12 6SE, turn right just before Zoar Garage on B3293 (coming from Helston direction) and stay on that road for about 1.5 miles. Look for a gravel track on the right opposite a very large concrete ex MoD building with the house name Treprenn Vean on a sign. Just past this is a grass area that can accommodate several cars.

  • Click this link to LET US KNOW YOU'RE COMINGTO TREPRENN VEAN

Wednesday 7 August 8.00pm (sunset time = 8.52pm)

wildlifegroundswell@gmail.com

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National Meadows Day
Jul
6

National Meadows Day

Events are FREE, everyone welcome.

All day, various locations across the Lizard and Helford River catchment

Building on last year’s successful wildflower meadow safari day, we’re planning to expand this year with more beautiful meadows to explore, wildflower seed exchanges and talks from experts. In collaboration with the University of Exeter and Plantlife. Save the date, more info coming soon.

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