🥪 Come and join the #BigLunch in your area.

🤩 A fun afternoon for all the family

🤗 Come and say hi to us too!

One week left to enter our fossil giveaway! A chance to win 10+ sharks teeth, pyrite wood and fossilised shells. Just simply click the video link, subscribe, like and comment! I’ll be randomising the winner on a YouTube live next week. UK residents only!

Thank you so much to all who supported, took part in, or popped by Connect Share Celebrate last week. We had a fantastic time and were so pleased to bring together and celebrate a big community of people taking action for nature.

It's TODAY! Looking forward to seeing lots of you later to celebrate nature community projects and groups in Thurrock and Basildon. All are welcome for music, food, art and more!

POSTPONED: Today's planned Falcon Woods Community Day is unfortunately postponed due to hazardous weather. However we will be back on a non-thundery, dry day to show off the delights of the woods, so stay tuned!

Very excited to have so many more groups added to this bill! Alzheimer's Society Kids Inspire Bird Aware Essex Coast

Do join us on 13th July in Grays Town Park to celebrate community nature projects

T100 Sounds starts this Wednesday with a Summer Solstice Birdsong Walk RSPB Rainham Marshes on 21 June, come and join us!!

Book your place, now: t100festival.co.uk/sounds-of-rain…

#T100Sounds
ThurrockLifestyle Thurrock and Brentwood Mind

Join us in July for our Connect Share Celebrate Festival - looking forward to getting all the Nextdoor Nature groups together, along with all the other community nature groups doing great work in Thurrock and Basildon

Thurrock Youth Cabinet is holding its first Youth Wellbeing Day for 11 to 17 year olds!

🧑 When: 31 May
🧑 Where: Grangewaters Outdoor Education Centre, RM15 6RS
🧑 Time: 10am to 3pm

Booking is essential as spaces are limited. Email: [email protected]

Here's my fab colleague in the North of Essex on the Essex By The Sea podcast!

Join in with important climate change research and take part in the Essex Bioblitz!🌸
All you need to do is download the iNaturalist app and use it to take photos of wildflowers in Essex, if you record 30 observations you will also be entered into our prize draw! 🏆

Yay! I love blossom, it's just so cheerful and cheering

#TheEssexBioBlitz is off to a cracking start!!! Over 100 species recorded in just 3 days 🌸 School of Life Sciences, University of Essex University of Essex The Wildlife Trusts Essex Wildlife Trust

How to take part - essexwt.org.uk/essex-bioblitz 🪴

Having a great day here at Clayburn Gardens in Ockendon - we've got free family nature activities to celebrate the new hedge being planted for the Queens Canopy

🌸 #TheEssexBioBlitz starts today! 🌸
1) Download the iNaturalist app
2) Find a wildflower
3) Take a photo using the app
Take 30 photos to be in with the chance of winning one of our prizes! Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3Tf6Ce9

University of Essex School of Life Sciences, University of Essex The Wildlife Trusts

Are you under 25 years old and interested in bird watching? Take a look a this event

Looking forward to this event on Saturday - South Ockendon come on down for coffee, nature activities, and hedge planting!

Hurray! Great to see Aveley's Hidden Gem being celebrated. Looking forward to seeing what the group does next to support wildlife and people in Aveley