Date |
Event Description |
Location |
Booking Link |
2025 Wirral Countryside Volunteers 40th Year |
|||
SEPTEMBER |
|||
Saturday 13th Start time: 09:30 |
Scything Course: WCV Members: £10 Non-Members: £20 Booking is essential |
New Ferry Butterfly Park |
SOLD OUT |
Sunday 14th Start time: 11:00 |
Final day of the 2025 season for New Ferry Butterfly Park. Volunteer activities including scything the second part of the BBQ meadow and in Charlies Field. At 16:00, there will be a 'bring a contribution to share' closing BBQ. As with all NFBP Open Days, parking on site will be limited to Disabled Parking only. |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
|
Wednesday 17th Start time: 09:30 |
Day 1 of 3: Hedgelaying at Beeston. There is approx. 50m of a mix of well established and relatively new hedging to be laid. Hand tools and chainsaws will be needed. |
Rose Cottage, Moss Lane, Beeston. CW6 9SU |
|
Sunday 21st Start time: 09:00 |
Shocklach Hedge Laying Society: Shocklach Hedgelaying Competition - Cheshire style. Open and Novice classes, prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd in each class. £5.00 entry fee |
By kind permission of Mr & Mrs Jones: Moore Farm, Tilston Road, Shocklach, Cheshire |
More information and entry form available from Andy Brown brown.a.j@me.com |
Wednesday 24th Start Time: 09:30 |
Cheshire Ploughing and Hedge Cutting Society - 2025 hedgelaying competition |
Hatley Farm, Hatley Lane, Frodsham. WA6 6XX |
|
Saturday 27th Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying at Helen Arthan's followed by Helen's Hogget Stew. This is a continuance of the hedge we started last season, the sections are better as we proceed, but there will be a difference! The hedge can be cut as individual sections or as a pairs sections which will then be judged - AND there will be prizes. |
Chorlton Lane Farm, Chorlton Lane, Malpas SY14 7ES |
|
OCTOBER |
|||
Wednesday 1st |
Day 2 of 3: Hedgelaying at Beeston. There is approx. 50m of a mix of well established and relatively new hedging to be laid. Hand tools and chainsaws will be needed. |
Rose Cottage, Moss Lane, Beeston. CW6 9SU |
|
Saturday 4th |
National Hedge Laying Society event: The annual National Hedge Laying Competition. More detail will be available of the HNLS wesbite |
Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0JH |
|
Wednesday 8th
Start time: 09:30 |
Day 3 of 3: Hedgelaying at Beeston. There is approx. 50m of a mix of well established and relatively new hedging to be laid. Hand tools and chainsaws will be needed. |
Rose Cottage, Moss Lane, Beeston. CW6 9SU |
|
Sunday 12th Start time: 09:30 |
New Ferry Butterfly Park workday: Hedge laying, turf removal and other maintenance tasks. Additionally there will be the annual 'Apple Day' and volunteers will help with collecting apples. |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
|
Wednesday 15th Start Time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying in Connah's Quay: there's approx. 25mts of a youngish hedge to be laid in a Community Garden. Both dates are on Ticket Tailor, select the date/s which suit |
Meeting point is the car park for Lidl, High Street, Connah's Quay, CH5 4DD |
|
Monday 20th
Start time: 19:30 |
Group meeting |
New Ferry Village Hall Grove Street, New Ferry CH62 5AZ |
|
Wednesday 22nd Start Time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying in Connah's Quay: there's approx. 25mts of a youngish hedge to be laid in a Community Garden. Both dates are on Ticket Tailor, select the date/s which suit |
Meeting point is the car park for Lidl, High Street, Connah's Quay, CH5 4DD |
|
Saturday 25th Sunday 26th Start time: 09:30 |
Woodland management weekend at Thornton Wood |
Meeting point: Thornton Common Road where the bridge crosses the M53 |
|
Wednesday 29th Start time: 09:30 |
Hedge preparation - ahead of the training day we need to prepare the hedge, marking out sections, breaking in, distribution hedging stakes etc... |
Landican Lane near the Woodchurch Road end |
|
NOVEMBER |
|||
Saturday 1st Start time: 09:30 |
WCV 21st Hedge Laying Training Day NOTE: please select the correct ticket for your skill level - TRAINEE or TRAINER |
Landican Lane near the Woodchurch Road end |
|
Saturday 1st Start time: 17:00 |
Post hedge laying training day meal. Note, this is not funded by WCV. |
Seven Stars public house, Thornton Hough |
|
Wednesday 5th Start time: 09:30 |
Post training day tidy up - finishing off any sections which were not completed during the training day, tidying brash, removal of unused hedging stakes, etc... |
Landican Lane near the Woodchurch Road end |
|
Sunday 9th Start time: 09:30 |
New Ferry Butterfly Park workday: Hedge laying, turf removal and other maintenance tasks |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
|
Wednesday 12th Start Time: 09:30 |
Last season we almost completed laying the hedge around the gas pumping station leaving a 40 meter section which was obstructed by a fallen tree. The fallen tree has now been removed, granting access to the hedge once more. |
Landican Lane, opposite the Asda store on Woodchurch Road. Post code for the store is CH49 5PD. Meet by the access road to the pumping station |
|
Friday 14th Start time: 19:30 |
Talk about Wirral Countryside Volunteers 40 years of achievement |
Thornton Hough Women's Institute Neston Rd, Birkenhead, Thornton Hough, Wirral CH63 |
£5.00 entrance fee, payable at the door - no pre-booking necessary |
Wednesday 19th Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying on the Wirral Way in the Parkgate area. The hedge concerned is mainly tall Sycamore |
Wirral Way, Parkgate. Meet in the Old Baths Car Park (access road is by the Boathouse pub) |
|
Wednesday 26th Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying in Willaston - Day 1: Circa 150 mtrs of mainly well established Hawthorn to be laid |
5 Oaks, Street Hey Lane, Willaston, Neston.CH64 1SS |
|
Saturday 29th Start time 09:30 |
Hedgelaying in Willaston - Day 2: Circa 150 mtrs of mainly well established Hawthorn to be laid |
5 Oaks, Street Hey Lane, Willaston, Neston.CH64 1SS |
|
DECEMBER |
|||
Wednesday 3rd Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying in Willaston - Day 3: Circa 150 mtrs of mainly well established Hawthorn to be laid |
5 Oaks, Street Hey Lane, Willaston, Neston.CH64 1SS |
|
Saturday 6th Start time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying in Willaston - Day 4: Circa 150 mtrs of mainly well established Hawthorn to be laid |
5 Oaks, Street Hey Lane, Willaston, Neston.CH64 1SS |
|
Wednesday 10th Start Time: 09:30 |
Hedgelaying in Willaston - Day 5 (if needed): Circa 150 mtrs of mainly well established Hawthorn to be laid |
5 Oaks, Street Hey Lane, Willaston, Neston.CH64 1SS |
|
Saturday 13th Start Time: 19:30 |
Pot luck buffet at Paul and Philippa's in Bebington |
Paul and Philippa's - details to follow |
|
Sunday 14th Start time: 09:30 |
New Ferry Butterfly Park workday: Hedge laying, turf removal and other maintenance tasks |
New Ferry Butterfly Park, Howell Road, Bebington |
|
At Wirral Countryside Volunteers (WCV) we take the safety and wellbeing of volunteers and organisers seriously.
From its beginnings WCV have held weekend tasks; much more recently these weekend tasks have been supported and extended by the “Intrepid Midweekers”, who have their own programme of tasks (though this often links to the main programme). Events are briefly described in the table below.
All events are fully assessed and the necessary Risk Assessments are completed and made available to all. All events are supported by the required support mechanisms, First Aiders, etc
TABLE KEY: |
New or rescheduled events |
Events at New Ferry Butterfly Park |
