January, 2012

Find out about what’s happening with the Trust by reading our latest stories below.  If you want to find out more or think you have a story, please contact our press office. Don’t forget to share comments, stories, photos and videos on our group Facebook page, Youtube or Flickr.

  • Still time to enter photography competition!

    Monday 30th January, 2012

    There’s still time to enter Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s annual photography and film competition which is now in its 27th year.

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  • Vine House Farm discounts and competitions!

    Monday 30th January, 2012

    Following on from the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend, why not visit Vine House Farm's website to help identify and look after garden birds.

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  • ‘Tis the season to be planting

    Friday 27th January, 2012

    Keep your fingers crossed it doesn’t snow this February as a team of estates officers and volunteers from Northumberland Wildlife Trust aim to have planted over 5,000 trees and 250m of hedgerow at 9 locations around the Region by the end of next month - not to mention the trees which will be felled to make way for the new ones.

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  • ‘Tis the season to be planting

    Friday 27th January, 2012

    Keep your fingers crossed it doesn’t snow this February as a team of estates officers and volunteers from Northumberland Wildlife Trust aim to have planted over 5,000 trees and 250m of hedgerow at 9 locations around the Region by the end of next month - not to mention the trees which will be felled to make way for the new ones.

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  • Gallagher Park needs you!

    Thursday 26th January, 2012

    Gallagher Park in Bedlington is the latest site set to be improved by Northumberland Wildlife Trust as part of the SENSE II project.

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  • Thank you shoppers!

    Thursday 26th January, 2012

    Northumberland Wildlife Trust would like to thank all the shoppers at the Metro Centre last Saturday (21 January) who stopped put their loose change in the Trust’s collection buckets.

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  • Charity lottery continues to fund Hauxley volunteers

    Wednesday 25th January, 2012

    Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s Hauxley reserve is supported Monday to Friday, 52 weeks a year, by a small team of dedicated volunteer wardens, who, since the early 1980s, have carried out and recorded a daily bird count to establish a picture of bird populations throughout the Druridge Bay area.

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  • Trees galore at Briarwood and Colt Crag

    Wednesday 25th January, 2012

    Estates staff and volunteers from Northumberland Wildlife Trust spent the first three weeks in January tree planting at two locations in the Tyne Valley.

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  • Invest in a love nest!

    Tuesday 24th January, 2012

    Care for wild creatures this Valentine’s Day, urges conservation chief!

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  • Wildlife Trusts to vaccinate in pilot badger cull areas

    Friday 20th January, 2012

    Local Wildlife Trusts will pursue badger vaccination as a means of tackling bovine TB in the pilot badger cull areas announced today.

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