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Habitat management on a DWT nature reserve near you.

Come and join us for some practical management tasks.

Get up close to the amazing wildlife of Brownsea Island with our experts. 

Working on a DWT nature reserve near you.

Join the Great Heath team and get involved with practical conservation tasks on a number of different reserves and habitats.

Join the regular volunteering group in West Dorset.

Join us for practical conservation work. Booking is essential. Please book a place by the morning of Wednesday 28th September.

Practical conservation work; all tools and training provided.

Led by Joy Fildes.

Practical conservation work; all tools and training provided. 

Discover how to spot a secret badger route & remarkable facts about badgers.

A slightly more relaxing way to find out about the famous Chesil Beach & its wildlife.

Join the regular volunteering group on Brownsea island on alternate Sundays throughout the year.

Practical conservation work at Sopley Common.

Walk along the Chesil Beach, looking for signs of creatures washed in from the deep.

Come and join us for some practical management tasks.

A regular day of practical work at Lorton Meadows Nature Reserve restoring habitats important for local wildlife.

Join us for practical conservation work. Booking is essential. Please book a place by the morning of Wednesday 5th October.

Practical conservation work; all tools and training provided.

An illustrated talk by well-known local photographer, Colin Varndell.

A walk for you & your dog to explore the new extension to Upton Country Park, with joint leaders from Dorset Dogs & The Great Heath.

Nature Watch - How to track and observe wildlife.  An illustrated talk by Simon King. 

Six mile Poole Harbour Trails walk with The Great Heath.

Practical conservation work; scrub clearance and hedge laying. 

Habitat management on a DWT nature reserve near you.

A talk by Jacob Dew, Conservation Officer for Dorset Wildlife Trust’s Wild Rivers Project.

Working on a DWT nature reserve near you.

Join the regular volunteering group in West Dorset.

Join us for practical conservation work. Booking is essential. Please book a place by the morning of Wednesday 12th October.

Practical conservation work; all tools and training provided.

Drawing workshop led by artist Julie Herring.

Design and make your own willow animal on this extended weekend, learning willow design, shaping and formation techniques, with Kim Creswell.

Learn about the ecology of small mammals & how to identify them. Then set live traps to catch them on Friday night.

Learn about the ecology of small mammals & how to identify them. CHECK YOUR TRAP to see what you have caught!

Join Sam Hamer on an early morning walk to witness the autumn deer rut at Powerstock, before a full breakfast back at the Centre.

Try out the traditional practice of apple juice & cider making, by helping chop, crush & squeeze local apples, with the Weymouth Transition Town Group.

Discover the birds of the Dorset Wildlife Trust Brownsea Island Nature Reserve, famous for its flocks of wading birds in autumn.

Join the regular volunteering group on Brownsea  island on alternate Sundays throughout the year.

Working on a DWT nature reserve near you.

Discover how we farm with wildlife on a guided walk, followed by a full Sunday lunch.

Learn about the whales, sharks, dolphins & huge jellyfish that we have in Dorset.

Practical conservation work; scrub clearance and hedge laying.

Create your own needle felt acorns, conkers, leaves or fungi using the seasonal colours & inspiration of autumn, with Carla Taylor.

A regular day of practical work at Lorton Meadows Nature Reserve restoring habitats important for local wildlife.

Join the Great Heath team and get involved with practical conservation tasks on a number of different reserves and habitats.

An illustrated talk by Nicky Hoar, DWT Learning & Interpretation Officer.

A talk by Becky Williamson, Naturalist & Photographer.

Join us for practical conservation work. Booking is essential. Please book a place by the morning of Wednesday 19th October.

Practical conservation work; all tools and training provided.

An illustrated talk by Steve Limburn.

Explore the rich colours & varied forms of autumnal berries, fruits, seed heads & flowers in this botanical painting workshop, with Christina Hart-Davies.

A talk by Eric Watson.

This 'taster' day is a chance to learn some of the basic techniques of some traditional coppice crafts. 

Learn about the amazing array of fungi amongst the ancient pastures, with expert John Wright.

Find out about garden birds, the best things to feed them & how to ready your garden for winter.

Looking to buy some new binoculars or a telescope? Rob Laughton from Opticron will be on hand to give expert advice on optics.

Discover this fascinating world of fungi on a foray amongst ancient woodland, with expert John Wright.

Come and join us for some practical management tasks.

Habitat management on a DWT nature reserve near you.

Get slimy with seaweed! Did you know that you put seaweed in your mouth every day? Learn fascinating facts, how to identify seaweeds & have fun pressing them.

Join the Great Heath team and get involved with practical conservation tasks on a number of different reserves and habitats.

Working  on a DWT nature reserve near you.

Search the strandline of Chesil Beach to discover rare pink seafans, shark eggcases & other lost treasures blown in from the Atlantic.

Find out about the creatures of the deep dark ocean & make one to take home.

Join the regular volunteering group in West Dorset.

Join us for practical conservation work. Booking is essential. Please book a place by the morning of Wednesday 26th October.

Practical conservation work; all tools and training provided.  

Discover the beetles, bugs & slugs lurking under logs in Withy Woods – which has the best camouflage?

Dorset Wildlife Trust and Knoll Gardens Foundation invite you to a dusk stroll around the gardens to discover bats in Wild about Gardens week.

An Illustrated Talk by Hamish Murray.

Discover the secret life of baffling bats & other spooky Halloween creatures, then make bouncing bats to take home.

Featuring a range of beautiful hand-crafted gifts from artists across Dorset.  On sale every weekend at the Kingcombe Centre.

Join Katie for this adult wildlife gardening workshop in Wild about Gardens week.

Everything that washes ashore has a story to tell.  What is it?  Where has it come from?

Join the regular volunteering group on Brownsea  island on alternate Sundays throughout the year.

Practical work party on Upton Heath. Meet at the Urban Wildlife Centre BH213RX to get involved with practical habitat management on the heath.

Make spooky bird feeders to go in your garden at Halloween.

A guided walk looking at the gulls, wading birds & geese along Chesil Beach & the Fleet with local naturalist Sean Foote.

Come and join us for some practical mangement tasks.

A regular day of practical work at Lorton Meadows Nature Reserve restoring habitats important for local wildlife.

Join the Great Heath team and get involved with practical conservation tasks on a number of different reserves and habitats.

Join Dorset Wildlife Trust wardens and wildlife experts on a 3 hour boat cruise in Poole Harbour accompanied with a fish and chips lunch.

Join us for practical conservation work. Booking is essential. Please book a place by the morning of Wednesday 2nd November.

Practical conservation work; all tools and training provided.

An illustrated talk by Peter Bright, Somerset Wildlife Trust.

The Chesil Beach Centre will be hosting a two week “My Wildlife” art exhibition; come along & see how nature has inspired different artists.

Practical conservation work; all tools and training provided.

Why are they so spiky? Discover the mini ‘hogs’ of the hedgerow – what they eat, why they hibernate & a reminder to check those bonfires!

Practical conservation work at Sopley Common.

Habitat management on a DWT nature reserve near you.

Come and join us for some practical management tasks.

A presentation by Sarah Williams, Biodiversity Catchment Specialist from Wessex Water about her work on the biodiversity of Poole Harbour catchment & some West Somerset reservoir catchments.

Join the Great Heath team and get involved with practical conservation tasks on a number of different reserves and habitats.

Working on a DWT nature reserve near you.

Join the regular volunteering group in West Dorset.

Join us for practical conservation work. Booking is essential. Please book a place by the morning of Wednesday 9th November.

Practical conservation work; all tools and training provided.

Create your own exciting designs learning simple techniques using the natural world as inspiration, with Sarah Morrish. 

Join Dorset Wildlife Trust for a weekend learning the traditional skill of hedgelaying.

Join the regular volunteering group on Brownsea  island on alternate Sundays throughout the year.