National Trust Staff Leap into Community Volunteering
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- Nature & Environment
- 22 February 2012
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LeapDay, the 29th February, is an extra day that comes around but once every four years. This year, hundreds of companies and thousands of people are giving this free day to a good cause. National Trust is leading the way by giving more than 5,000 staff the day off work to volunteer in their local community.
We have invited National Trust staff from Devon to tell us about their experiences and look forward to sharing what they get up to next week.
Learn and grow - and this time it's personal...
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- Nature & Environment
- 07 February 2012
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Exeter CVS' popular, successful and completely unique Personal Development Through Horticulture course is rolling up its sleeves for the Spring 2012 intake of students.
The next course starts on 27th February and runs through to 19th June.
Seed Swap Spectacular!
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- Nature & Environment
- 02 February 2012
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Bored with Brussells? Awash with asparagus? Tired of eating the same old veg year in, year out? Or perhaps you're a newcomer to growing your own food...
...whichever it is, you will find everything you need at The Harvest Project's Seed Swap and Potato Event on:
Saturday 11th February
11.00am – 2.00pm
at St Matthew's Church Hall
Lower Summerlands
(by the triangle car park)
Swap seeds with others to increase your range of produce, buy your seed potatoes for summer cropping, get advice from experienced growers, and challenge the experts on the Gardeners' Question Time style panel. You can find out more by listening to Harvest's Andi Tobe talking about the event on Exeter CVS' Radio Show here, and you can read more about the Harvest Project on their webpage here..
40,000 Trees and Still Planting
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- 03 January 2012
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After ten years of planting trees, Devon conservation charity Moor Trees recently celebrated the planting of their 40,000th tree... and they're not finished yet!
Director Graham Burton said: 'It is a great tribute to our volunteers and all the landowners who have worked with us that we have reached this milestone,' before adding that 'We are always looking for new volunteers to join us with our planting or tree nursery schemes.'