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Knighton Wild John Crookes AGM Chairs Report 16 th May 2018 Practical Work St Mary Magdalen Churchyard Partnership with Parochial Church Council, Leicester City Parks Department Part of RHS Its Your Neighbourhood Scheme

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Knighton Wild

John Crookes AGM – Chair’s Report 16th May 2018

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St Mary Magdalen Churchyard

– Partnership with Parochial Church Council, Leicester City Parks Department – Part of RHS It’s Your Neighbourhood Scheme Achieved Level 3 “Advancing” in one year

Practical Work

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January 2018 11 nest boxes September 2016/7 Grass raking November 2017 Hedge laying

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Practical Work

Wash Brook Nature Park

– Partnership with Leicester Environment Volunteers (Parks Department) – Management Plan from Conservation Team

December 2017 Before January 2018 After

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Talks

Bird Identification
Wildlife Photography – Getting Closer
The Secrets of Plant Galls
From Black to Green: Coalpits to Treetops
Urban Buzz Leicester
Moth Breakfast
Wildlife in Knighton
Leicestershire’s Woodlands – Past, Present and

Future (with SKCE)

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Visits, Surveys and Recording Wash Brook Allotments

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Visits, Surveys and Recording Moth Breakfast

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Visits, Surveys and Recording Wash Brook Nature Park

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Visits, Surveys and Recording Knighton Park and Spinney

Bryophyte Walk
BioBlitz
Bird Identification

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NatureSpot

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Publicity

Radio Leicester
Uta found a

moss not previously recorded in the city: Fox-tail Feather-moss (Thamnobryum alopecurum)

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Engaging Residents

Knighton Park Bioblitz
Knighton Park Tree Trail
Explaining the wildlife value of St Mary’s

churchyard

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Knighton Park Tree Trail

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Knighton Park Tree Trail

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Knighton Park Tree Trail

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Plans for 2018

Insect habitat in the churchyard
CrowdFund Leicester project to improve area at

end of Kenwood Road (Knighton Green)

Talk on Ecological Gardening
Mini-Bioblitz at Queen’s Road Allotments
Work with local Scout groups
Open gardens with SKCE – wildlife theme
Identification session on butterflies
Knighton Spinney Nature Trail
Urban Buzz Projects