Conservation

Are you interested in your local environment?


Do you have a passion for conservation and wildlife?
Then read on!


Read the attached article about the benefits of volunteering.

There are opportunities for you as an individual, a family or a social group to join the groups of volunteers already working in the following areas:


Black Dam Ponds and Crabtree Plantation
Chineham 
Cliddesden 
Glebe Gardens, Victory Park and King George Vth Playing Fields (Brookvale)
Kempshott
Mill Field Local Nature Reserve
Oakley
Old Down, Kempshott
Overton
Popley
South View

For more information on becoming a volunteer, visit the individual pages for each conservation group or call Karen Evans-Prosser Green Spaces Ranger on 01256 845649.

Conservation Work Parties

A list of conservation work parties for autumn, winter and spring 2009 to 2010 can be found in the leaflet Conservation in our borough.   

Basingstoke conservation volunteers invited to attend the 24 hours of Biodiversity event in Alençon - 5th and 6th June 2010

Following the Urban Sustainability event held in Alençon last summer, when conservation volunteer Barry Bennett of the Oakley Woodlands Group was invited to make a presentation about the group, Council, Wildlife Trust staff and conservation volunteers were invited back this year to help with a wildlife inventory of the town. The inventory was organised by the Association Faune et Flore de l'Orne (AFFO), a similar organisation to the Wildlife Trust. This was the third event, which involved spending 24 hrs in a town in the region of Orne surveying the flora and fauna found during that period.

The group from Basingstoke helped survey parks, gardens, churchyards, water courses, ponds, railway sidings and allotments throughout the day and night. The species lists were long and included lizards, butterflies, trees and wildflowers. They even included some species rarely found in Hampshire such as the Portland Ribbon Wave Moth - generally a coastal migrant here. The full results are yet to be published but this was a great experience for the volunteers who returned to Basingstoke tired but with well honed Latin skills - the common language of species identification!

Now we look forward to hosting the first ever twinning conservation event to be held in Autumn this year, when we hope that colleagues and enthusiasts from Euskirchen, Braine l'Alleud and of course Alençon will be invited to experience wildlife and habitat management first hand here in Basingstoke.

Employee volunteering

Are you looking for an opportunity to volunteer with your colleagues?  Did you know that there are at least three ways of doing so?

Local conservation groups

Our conservation groups have a diverse range of activities that you could help them with.  If you would like further information, please contact Karen Evans-Prosser, Green Spaces Ranger on 01256 845649.

Employee Volunteering Network


Like the staff from Unum pictured in this photograph who have helped many groups with different tasks over the last few years, you too could help local charitable organisations and groups by becoming a member of the Employee Volunteering Network  a scheme being coordinated by Basingstoke Voluntary Services.

Because our conservation groups are members of the network you can again help our conservation groups with activities such as path maintenance, coppicing, surveying, and tree planting. 

Wildlife Investor Scheme

Alternatively if you are not able to volunteer your company or organisation could become a member of the Wildlife Investor Scheme which is run by the Wildlife Trust and supports the good work done locally for conservation.