Looking after Knutsford Heath
On Friday, 27th September, we will restart our monthly nature conservation work with Cheshire Wildlife Trust (CWT). Over the coming months, we will be focusing on tasks such as removing holly, maintaining heather by keeping it free of saplings and gorse, and ensuring the nest boxes are in good shape. CWT will supervise the work... Continue Reading →
Max and Zoe, two young volunteers, have been keeping The Heath clean for the past twelve months. They had often joined their parents for our community litter picks. So, when they enrolled in the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, they decided to take on litter picking as their volunteering activity. They set themselves the ambitious... Continue Reading →
We are running a community litter pick on Sunday, May 19th. For an hour, we will scour the whole of The Heath and remove all the litter we find. Please join us if you can. We will provide the equipment, but you should bring your own gloves. Date: Sunday 19th May Time: 11 a.m. Meet:... Continue Reading →
Our Friend and local resident, Peter Sharratt, has been busy recently. He has taken the initiative to tidy up the pavement on Northwich Road by removing soil and weeds that had encroached from The Heath. By doing so, he has widened the pavement and made it look much neater. Peter’s work has received overwhelming support... Continue Reading →
2024 Birdwatch Group - photo by Tony Usher. We held our eighth annual RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch event on Sunday morning. Together with the Knutsford Ornithological Society (KOS), we covered all parts of The Heath in an hour. Looking for the birds - photo by Mike O'Mahony. The group identified nineteen species and counted 77... Continue Reading →
We will hold our Big Garden Birdwatch on Sunday 28th January. Friends of The Heath are participating in a pan-Knutsford event with Friends of the Moor and the Knutsford Ornithological Society. Friends of the Moor will have their session on the Moor on Saturday, and we will have ours on The Heath on Sunday. The... Continue Reading →
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