If your kids are wild about wildlife then this is the club for them!
Our eco-club helps children explore nature and have lots of fun with games, activities and craft. Workshops include a minibeast safari, signs of spring, pond dipping and tremendous trees. Come along and investigate the natural wonders at Mossley Mill.
Every Saturday from the 8th Feb for 6 weeks. Age 8 – 12yrs. Booking essential. 
If your kids are wild about wildlife then this is the club for them!
Our eco-club helps children explore nature and have lots of fun with games, activities and craft. Workshops include a minibeast safari, signs of spring, pond dipping and tremendous trees. Come along and investigate the natural wonders at Mossley Mill.
Every Saturday from the 8th Feb for 6 weeks. Age 8 – 12yrs. Booking essential.
If your kids are wild about wildlife then this is the club for them!
Our eco-club helps children explore nature and have lots of fun with games, activities and craft. Workshops include a minibeast safari, signs of spring, pond dipping and tremendous trees. Come along and investigate the natural wonders at Mossley Mill.
Every Saturday from the 8th Feb for 6 weeks. Age 8 – 12yrs. Booking essential.
12 Feb – Pancakes and Hearts
Get ready for Shrove Tuesday by making seaonal pancakes and use foraged materials to make decorations to celebrate St Valentines and St Brigid.
12 March – A Stitch in Time
Make a simple sewing kit and pin cushion and spruce up your sowing skills in the process! Then learn how to blow eggs, decorate them for Easter.
If your kids are wild about wildlife then this is the club for them!
Our eco-club helps children explore nature and have lots of fun with games, activities and craft. Workshops include a minibeast safari, signs of spring, pond dipping and tremendous trees. Come along and investigate the natural wonders at Mossley Mill.
Every Saturday from the 8th Feb for 6 weeks. Age 8 – 12yrs. Booking essential.
Small Tortoiseshell
Come and join Butterfly Conservation and your Local Biodiversity officer in a fun survey to record Butterflies. Do you know your Small Tortoiseshell from your Peacock? Come along to find our more. There will be some magically moths to see as well.
Looking for something fun for the children this summer? ANBC are running a Biodiversity Summer School in Crumlin Glen from Monday 27 to Friday 31 July, 10am to 12 noon. The fun filled week of activities will take place outdoors.
All activities are FREE and children must be accompanied by an adult. Booking is required as places are limited.
Rea’s Wood BIG Spring Clean
When: Join the Rea’s Wood BIG Spring Clean on Saturday 23rd April, starting at 10.30am.
Where? A transport service will be provided for volunteers, picking up from Lough Shore Park, Antrim.
The volunteers attending the clean up must register with Nicola Murray at Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful.
Join us at White House, Gideons Green on Saturday 14th May to learn how to make amazing wild garlic pesto! The workshop will start at the White House followed by a walk in Glas-na-braden Glen to collect your own wild garlic. Then we will return to the White House to make the pesto!
This event is just one of a series of events in our Wild About Food programme – see attached flier for more information.
All events are free but booking is essential. Book your place by email (leisureadmin@antrimandnewtownabbey.gov.uk) or phone (02890340061)
Derry City and Strabane District Council invites you to our first ever Green Infrastructure and Climate Change Conference.
This event will highlight the Council’s pioneering climate adaptation and green infrastructure plans, which are also a first across Northern Ireland. The conference will also explore the benefits of green infrastructure as well as the issue of climate action at a local authority level.
There is an exciting mix of keynote speakers including:
- Greater London Authority’s Environment Strategy – Peter Massini
- EU Interreg project (Planning for Environment & Resource Efficiency in EU Towns & Cities) – Robert Lacey – Principal Development Officer, Cornwall Council
- Climate Ireland – Dr Barry O’Dwyer, Lead Research Scientist
- Adaptation Scotland – Anna Beswick, Porgramme Manager
- Tipperary County Council – Michael Moroney, Strategic Projects Unit, Green and Blue Infrastructure
- Natural Capital– Therese Karger-Lerchl, Senior Economist, Vivid Economics
- Role of Public Bodies in Climate Action and aligning to community action – Peter Hynes – CEO, Mayo County Council
- Climate Change in international context – Emma Norton, Energy Conservation Coordinator, Ecology Action Centre, Nova Scotia
This is the first Green Infrastructure and Climate Change Conference in Northern Ireland, which will support the creation, enhancement and promotion of green infrastructure (GI) to improve quality of life, health, biodiversity, development of greenways, resilience to climate change and economic attractiveness. It will explore how we can finance, plan, design and manage green spaces to maximise their value for our environment and people’s wellbeing.
Please book your ticket at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-infrastructure-and-climate-change-conference-tickets-53650159070
