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'Friends of' Groups

SOLIHULL

Warwickshire Wildlife Trust has been working in partnership with Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC) to support local people to form support groups for their local parks and greenspaces.

Elmdon Park Support Group

The group was constituted in June 2009 and aims to improve Elmdon Park and Elmdon Manor Nature Reserve by raising funds and organising events and activities for local people with support from Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and SMBC.  The group organises quarterly meetings and newsletters to keep the members up to date with what is happening in the park.

Friends of Lavender Hall Park

Friends of Lavender Hall Park was set up by Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and SMBC in March 2009. The group aims to improve the park, to widen opportunities to access funding and training, and to make sure everyone that park users are happy and informed. The group currently meets once a month.

Friends of Priory Fields

Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and Birmingham City Council are hoping to set up a Friends of Priory Fields in the near future. Visit Priory Fields Nature Reserve here.

WARWICK DISTRICT 

Friends of Myton Pools

Warwickshire Wildlife Trust has run a series of wildlife events at a nature reserve called Myton Pool in Warwick. The reserve is managed by The Friends of Myton Pool (FROMP), who asked the Trust (in addition to several other wildlife organizations) to run a range of exciting sessions to engage more members of the local community.

The sessions included Dragonfly Identification, Bugs on Bushes, Tree Identification and Habitat Tower Creation.  The events were aimed at families with the focus on educating the local community about the wildlife found on this gem of a reserve.

For more information about the reserve and how to get involved please visit www.fromp.org.uk.

Friends of Cawston Greenway 

The Friends of Cawston Greenway were set up in February 2010 by a group of Cawston residents, a parish councillor and the help of Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.

The initial focus of the group is to manage a section of the disused railway line that runs between Rugby and Leamington in a wildlife friendly way. The steep banks made of the local, calcareous blue lias clay are home to rare lime loving grassland species. Unfortunately this type of grassland is becoming increasingly rare in the UK due to the encroachment of scrub, and with the help of volunteers the group is hoping to take on the challenge of restoring the habitat. They are doing this with the help of several smaller grants from a number of sources.

Contact Paul Hart (paul.hart@cawstongreenway.org) or visit the website (www.cawstongreenway.org) if you would like to get involved.