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Brookland Park community garden, by Amy Hurn

Boosting Biodiversity at Brooklands Park

Parks are an important part of both our childhoods and our landscapes. We take a trip down memory lane to see progress at Brooklands Park.

Steyning Festival Green Day May 2024, by Frank Bull

Green Day: Community and Corridors

Read more about Greening Steyning and their work this summer to celebrate Wildlife Corridors as part of their Green Day event.

Meadow Brown, Amy Hurn

Gardens & Greenspaces – Taking Action for Nature This Summer

As Gardens & Greenspaces membership grows, it is wonderful to witness how our individual outdoor spaces, whatever their size are increasingly providing us with that much needed closer connection to nature.

Peacock butterfly by Libby Drew

Pollinator Highways

Pollinating insects play an essential role in maintaining the health of our ecosystems. Here’s how you can contribute to supporting these vital members of our ecological community by developing habitats that attract and sustain them.

Allotment/ Will Jackson / CC BY 2.0 DEED

All Hail Allotments!

In Sussex, the allotment tradition continues to thrive, not just for recreation and food production, but important urban spaces for nature.

Foxgloves in a garden

The good news, from my experience, is that a wild garden – especially a mature one – can be extraordinarily resilient and resistant to even very prolonged periods of drought. Even through months of heatwave everything stays green and lush; no plants seem to show stress, and nothing needs watering.

Coneflower by Amy Hurn

This is your chance to be part of a pioneering project benefitting nature recovery in Sussex and beyond. Your pledges – small or large – will help establish a nationally-significant 100-mile corridor for wildlife, regenerating our local ecosystems for years to come.

Kate Bradbury & Suzi Turner, Weald to Waves Gardens & Greenspace ambassadors

In May, we opened registrations for the Gardens and Greenspaces (G&GS) community, a vital strand of our citizen-led, nature recovery mission to join the dots for wildlife along this Sussex corridor. And to inspire and encourage our new network of gardeners and greenspace guardians, we are delighted to announce two very special G&GS Ambassadors.

Snowdrops- Libby Drew

Our first survey on nature in our gardens has been completed by nearly a quarter of members already. We can start to build a picture of what we have to offer wildlife and what is needed to improve connectivity.