Big Help Out – Help restore the woodland (volunteering morning)
As part of the Big Help out help restore the woodland – volunteering morning

Sunday 9^th June 10-12.30

Please note that entry isn’t via our gate in Riverview Park.
Head for no 77 Winsford Road SE6 4LT. Continue along Winsford Road towards the River Pool, on the left opposite the Bellingham Play Park head for the communications tower which is in the left hand corner of the council green space. Our new woodland gate is there.

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All welcome. Drop in anytime.

Help us restore our woodland near Bellingham. We are extending our wonderful community space into the woodland area, which hasn’t been touched in decades. But the woodland needs our help. It is overgrown, so the trees need releasing from ivy and bramble and spaces and rubbish cleared so we can use this as a community space. This will benefit nature and people. All welcome as there is something for everyone to get involved in. Bring some gloves if you have them, all tools provided. Bring drinks/ water and wear outdoor clothes.

Join us for a picnic and bring your teddy (or other favourite soft toy)
Bring a rug or chair plus your picnic food.
Book your places so that we know how many people are coming.
There will be storytelling at 2pm.
Last entry 3pm.

Big Lunch and teddy bears picnic
Sunday 2nd June 12-4.30pm last entry 3pm

Plant Sale and Open Day Sunday 19th May 10am-2pm

Entrance via the gate next to no 53 Riverview Park, Catford SE6 4PL shared with Long Meadow Allotment (no entry from River Pool).

All ages welcome. Come and explore our wonderful community space and buy your herbs, vegetable plants, fruit bushes and strawberries and help plant sunflowers in our pollinator bed.

Refreshments available. Cash and cards accepted but cash preferred. Bring a bag for your goodies.

All our plants are grown using Garden Organic’s Organic Guidelines from seed or cuttings and we use organic, peat free compost, when possible, and recycled pots. We have herbs, tomatoes, chillies, courgettes, cucumbers, kale, broccolli, beans, pumpkins and squash, strawberries, fruit bushes and a whole host of other things for your kitchen garden, window ledge or indoor pot. Prices between £2-5 plus free gardening advice from our growers.
All money will support the Wild Cat Wilderness, which is a project of the Lewisham Local charity.

The new fence and gate is up at the woodland end of our site near the Bellingham Playpark. We can now work with local volunteers to restore and manage the woodland so that it’s an accessible community space. We will also be piloting our new green prescriptions project ‘woodland for wellbeing’ to help with mental health recovery. The new area will also be available to local schools and can be used for forest school sessions. We are also hoping to run green woodworking sessions. We have already uncovered a small area with native bluebells. There is a lot of work to do so we will be launching some weekend volunteer sessions so the local community can help out. Watch this space or contact Maria if you are interested in getting involved wcw@rgtb.org.uk

To see whats going on at the Wild Cat Wilderness visit our What’s On page. To book click on the event and choose the number of tickets in the dropdown box.

Coming up with have

Nest building and popcorn on the campfire
Saturday 23^rd March 10-12.30 Last entry 11am

Egg and chick hunt, make bunny faces and more – a celebration of spring. Thursday 11^th April 10-2pm last entry 1pm

Spring forage and wild lunch

Sunday 3^rd March 10.15-1.30 (entry from 10.15am so we can start at 10.45 sharp – sorry no latecomers after 10.40)

Unwaged or low income – free or pay what you can afford

All others recommended donation £12-15 with lunch plus Eventbrite fee

Join us at our community green space in Catford and find out about the wild edibles that grow in SE London.

We will discuss the rules and ethics of foraging, have some pre- made nibbles and drinks to try, have a stroll around our wild space to find some edible delights and will make a wild lunch from what we discover.

Please note that the lunch will be largely plant based and we can’t necessarily cater for all dietary requirements but please make us aware of any allergies when you book.

Children are welcome and children under 12 can attend for free with one ticketed adult and you can share your food with them. You need to let us know of any children under 12 attending by email once you have booked. Children over 12 will need to book a place.

Sorry no refunds. Places limited

Booking via our Eventbrite page
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/848257971427?aff=oddtdtcreator

By booking a place or attending you are giving us consent to take photographs and these might be used for publicity purposes and on social media by our charity. If you want to opt out please notify the person running the session on the day. Thanks