Tag: TCV

Thwaite Mills Museum hosts Hedgerow Festival

  A day of family fun events celebrating the fantastic colour, splendour and wildlife which exists in the surroundings of a popular museum in South Leeds will be held this weekend. As part of the Hedgerow Festival on Sunday 13 October from 11:00am – 3:30pm, visitors will have the opportunity

Lots to do at Skelton Grange Environment Centre this autumn

  Our friends at Skelton Grange Environment Centre have been in touch about some the great events they’ve got coming up this autumn … We have some fantastic events coming up at Skelton Grange Environment Centre during October which we would love you to come along too with friends and

South Leeds Roundup: Scooters, schools and … Santa?

  Here’s your regular roundup of what’s making South Leeds tick on other websites, blogs and across Facebook. As we are entering autumn, the “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”, I thought we should start in Stourton. Volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre have been harvesting fruit and veg over

Volunteering opportunities at Skelton Grange

  Looking for something fresh and new? A career change? Experience of teaching environmental education? Knowledge of practical conservation and tool use? Do you want to work in the environmental sector, but lack the experience to land your first job? Look no further… The Conservation Volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment

A mosaic for all seasons: new outdoor artwork at Skelton Grange

  The Conservation Volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre in Leeds have piecing together the final stages of an exciting new artwork at the centre. Over 20 different volunteers have helped to put together the three metre wide mosaic which shows a beech tree changing with the passage of the

Skelton Grange branches out with new summer play schemes for kids!

Skelton Grange Environment Centre in Stourton is to host a number of new and exciting ways for kids to get out and about over the summer. Each new session is aimed at getting children off the sofa and into the fresh air – to explore nature, to play games, to

Vice President of Zambia pays unexpected visit to Skelton Grange Environment Centre

  Ralph Walker from Skelton Grange Environment Centre has been in touch: When the volunteers and staff turned up at Skelton Grange yesterday it was the beginning of another lovely day at the centre. The sun was shining and the natural colours across the site seemed to be developing with

20,000 people and counting visit Skelton Grange Environment Centre

Staff and volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre have given 20,000 people from across Leeds and Yorkshire Access to Nature since April 2010. Skelton Grange Environment Centre in South Leeds is celebrating the fact that it has received well over 20,000 visitors to the centre since 2010 as part of