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Friends of Burgess Hill Green Circle Network Events Programme Spring 2012 |
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Upcoming eventsDue to risk assessments - we regret that no dogs can attend our events. Meeting point for conservation work parties:-
Bedelands – car park off Maple Drive (near Football Club). TQ317202. Leader’s contact no. 07553 168159
Hammonds Ridge – entrance gate opposite Tesco (beside roundabout). TQ301183
Please wear suitable clothing and bring gloves and secateurs if you have them. (Plus a snack and a drink!) Saturday January 7th Sunday January 8th | Bedelands conservation work parties | 9am - 1pm 10am-2pm | Friday February 3rd | 'Bushcraft and Survival' Using natural materials to survive in the wild. A talk by Mark Chorley (Mid Sussex Ranger) 7.45pm-9.30pm | Cyprus Hall. Cyprus Road. Doors open at 7.15pm. Admission: Members £1 Visitors £2, under 16yrs free Refreshments and raffle | Saturday February 4th Sunday February 5th | Bedelands conservation work parties | 9am - 1pm 10am - 2pm | Friday March 2nd | 'Insects in my Flesh' (Dr Martin Hall of the Natural History Museum talks about insects that feed on living flesh.) 7.45pm-9.30pm | Doors open at 7.15pm. Admission: Members £1 Visitors £2, under 16yrs free Refreshments and raffle | Saturday March 3rd Sunday March 4th | Bedelands conservation work parties | 9am - 1pm 10am - 2pm | Saturday March 31st Sunday April 1st | Bedelands conservation work parties | 9am - 1pm 10am - 2pm | | Saturday April 14th | 'Wild about Mid Sussex' 10am-4pm and inter Schools Art Exhibition on Wildlife Themes. | Sports Hall, Oakmeeds Community College & Assembly Hall. Admission Free | | | | |
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Welcome to our web site |
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From 1994 to 2008 the Green Circle Friends group was called the Friends of Bedelands Farm Local Nature Reserve. This organisation was specific to one site of 33 hectares on the northern edge of Burgess Hill. We helped the landowners, Mid Sussex District Council, transform it from a farm to a nature reserve and received national awards for our joint efforts with a Millennium Marque in 2000 and four Green Flag awards from 2004. In response to the needs of other sites around the town we decided to include all wildlife sites within our remit, bringing the total area to around 120 hectares. We fully realise that conserving only one area of the town does not offer a sustainable future for wildlife. It needs a living landscape with good connectivity, so we are not only helping to look after existing areas but also identifying potential new sites and ensuring that all of them are not built upon. In this way we can conserve the best sites around the town with wide corridors through which the public can have good access via cycle routes suitable for pedestrians, wheelchair users and equestrians where possible. More sites will become nature reserves in 2010 and most are already Biodiversity Opportunity Areas (No. 60 - Burgess Hill Green Crescent). Please browse our site and discover the delights of the Mid Sussex countryside. We have a mammoth task facing us, to identify the best areas through scientific surveys, decide on how best to enhance them through long-term management plans and then find the funds and time necessary to implement them. Please join us in this mission and enjoy the rewards of our efforts that future generations will benefit from. Roy Ticehurst (former Chairman) If you would like to visit nearly all the sites then the attached file recommends a circular route around the town Click here to download (pdf 348 Kb)
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