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Other Groups
ARK (Action for the River Kennet)
Website: www.riverkennet.org
Basingstoke Conversation Volunteers
Website: www.basingstokecv.org.uk
Regular Sunday tasks in the Basingstoke area.
Berkshire Conservation Volunteers (BeC)
Website: www.berkshire-conservation-volunteers.org.uk
Task every Sunday at a site in Berkshire, south Oxfordshire or north Hampshire.
Minibus transport available from Reading, including Reading Station.
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (Work parties)
Website: www.bbowt.org.uk
The Mid-Week team have a task at one of the Trust's Berkshire reserves every Thursday.
Other week day work parties include Padworth Common on 3rd Thursday of month and Snelsmore Common on 4th Thursday of month.
There are also weekend tasks at a number of the reserves as well as mid-week tasks for the West Berkshire Living Landscapes project.
Similar volunteering opportunities exist in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
Work party information and contact details
Bracknell Conservation Volunteers
Website: www.bracknellcv.org.uk
Task every Tuesday in the Bracknell area.
CROW (Conserve Reading On Wednesdays)
Part of Econet, see Home Page
Friends of Clayfield Copse
Part of Econet, see Home Page
Friends Of Fobney Island Wetland Nature Reserve
Website: https://www.facebook.com/friendsoffobneyisland/
Also see site photo's
Occasional practical work parties, email friendsoffobney@gmail.com for information.
Friends of Mapledurham Playing Fields
Part of Econet, see Home Page
Friends of McIlroy Park
Part of Econet, see Home Page
Friends of Moor Copse (Local BBOWT Group)
Website: www.moorcopse.org.uk
BBOWT's Moor Copse Reserve is located between Pangbourne and Theale on the A340.Task generally second Sunday of month.
Contact: Anne Booth at anne.j.booth@gmail.com
Further information and work party details
Friends Of Ruscombe Wood
Task generally first Saturday of the month from 10:00 until 13:00.
Friends of Waterloo Meadows
Part of Econet, see Home Page
Greenham And Crookham Conservation Volunteers
Website: www.gccv.org.uk
Task on third Sunday of the month.
Programme
Hedge And Woodland Conservationists
Tasks throughout the winter months to coppice woodland and lay hedges, primarily in the Bracknell and Wokingham area.
Contact: Valerie Batt-Rawden 01344 455909 or email valerie.br@btinternet.com
Holt Copse Conservation Volunteers
Website: www.hccv.org.uk
Task alternate Saturdays from October to February/March. There may also be weekday tasks during this period.
Lavell's Wetland Trust (LWT)
Website: www.foll.org.uk
Previously known as Friends of Lavell's Lake
Work party on the fourth Sunday of the month.
Maiden Erlegh Nature Reserve
Website: www.maidenerleghlnr.org.uk
Task every Wednesday morning.
Contact: Grahame Hawker (Senior Ranger), email parkrangers@earley-tc.gov.uk
Moor Copse (Local BBOWT Group)
See Friends of Moor Copse above
Moor Green Lakes Group
Website: www.mglg.org.uk
Tasks one Tuesday and one Sunday a month outside bird nesting season.
Newbury And Thatcham Green Gym
Website: www.newburyandthatchamgreengym.org.uk
Part of Econet until 1st April 2015 when it will become an independent group.
Tasks every Monday from 10:00 - 12:30 in the Newbury and Thatcham area.
Reading National Trust Conservation Volunteers
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/readingntv/home
Group not currently active (January 2015).
Sonning Common Green Gym
Website: sonningcommon.tcv.org.uk
The original Green Gym.Task every Thursday and Saturday, mainly morning only, at a variety of sites in South Oxfordshire.
Thames21
Website: www.thames21.org.uk
London based group, occasional practical activities in Reading on the Thames and its tributaries.
The Conservation Volunteers (Reading Office)
Website: www.tcv.org.uk
Task every Thursday at sites across Berkshire and the surrounding.
Minibus transport available from Reading Office (London Street).
Programme and contact details.
See also 'Reading Green Gym'.
Theale Area Bird Conservation Group
Website: www.freewebs.com/tabcg
Work party every Saturday at Hosehill Local Nature Reserve, Theale.
West Berkshire Countryside Society
Website: www.westberkscountryside.org.uk
Task every Tuesday at various sites in West Berkshire.
Windsor And Maidenhead Conservation Volunteers
Website: www.wmcv.org
Task alternate Sundays in the Windsor and Maidenhead area.
Last Updated: 6 April 2019 17:28