green day

QE2 Activity Centre staff have a wealth of experience in designing and delivering environmental activity programmes for all abilities and all ages.  Activities can include anything from woodland art to coppice work, environmental games to hedge laying, building birdboxes to building shelters.  Programmes are tailored to suit each group so let us know what you want to do and we'll make it happen.

Set in 400 acres of woodland and farmland the Centre is a great place to find out about the world around us.  The woods are primary woodland - that means there's been trees here forever - well, best part of 10,000 years anyway.  There's wild birds - from blackbirds and robins to lesser spotted, greater spotted and green woodpeckers, nuthatches, wood pigeons, treecreepers, finches, blue, great, longtailed and coal tits, even buzzards.  Down on the river there's curlew and whimbrel, sandpipers, kingfishers, turnstones, gulls and terns, heron, willow warblers and yes, egrets, we have a few. 

  Early in the the year snowdrops, bluebells, wood anenomes and primroses let us know spring is on the way; later on its time for collecting blackberries, crab apples, sloes, elderberries and looking at fungi.   

So, come along to the QE2 Activity Centre and spend a day learning about the birds, the trees, the flowers, the animals, the woodland, the farmland and the river bank while pond dipping, bird box making, foraging, collecting, crabbing, bird hiding (?!), orienteering, map making, fire making, outdoor cooking, shelter building, art creating, tree hugging (oh go on), learning (ouch) and having fun.

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