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Below you'll find other ways you can get involved with great activities around Dorset or in your back garden.
More things to do
Wildlife Events
Come along to any of our wildlife events, and learn more about the amazing wildlife around you.
Pastures New Work Party
Join the regular volunteering group in West Dorset. Tasks can range from hedge laying to Himalayan balsam pulling in locations all over…
Portland Volunteer Work Party
Join us for conservation work each month throughout winter, and help preserve Portland's rare limestone grassland.
Brownsea Island Practical Volunteer Work Party
Join our Reserve staff in helping to manage this unique habitat. Tasks will include scrub clearance, island maintenance, tree thinning…
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Pastures New Work Party
Join the regular volunteering group in West Dorset. Tasks can range from hedge laying to Himalayan balsam pulling in locations all over…
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Brownsea Island Practical Volunteer Work Party
Join our Reserve staff in helping to manage this unique habitat. Tasks will include scrub clearance, island maintenance, tree thinning…
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Pastures New Work Party
Join the regular volunteering group in West Dorset. Tasks can range from hedge laying to Himalayan balsam pulling in locations all over…
Ways you can help wildlife
How to do companion planting
Grow plants that help each other! Maximise your garden for you and for wildlife using this planting technique.
Contact your MP
By writing to your MP or meeting them in person, you can help them to understand more about a local nature issue you care passionately…
Change what you eat
Buy local produce, eat more plant-based foods and reduce your food miles to shrink your environmental footprint.
How to have an eco-Christmas
Whether you celebrate a big family Christmas, or you just give out a few cards to your friends and neighbours to wish them a happy time…
How to make a bog garden
Instead of draining, make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature, and provide a valuable habitat.
How to grow a wild patch or mini meadow
Whether it's a flowerpot, flowerbed, wild patch in your lawn, or entire meadow, planting wildflowers provides vital resources to…