Stour Valley Volunteers
In this section
- What we do
- Management Plan 2010-2015
- Annual Report
- Managing a Masterpiece Landscape Partnership
- Power Lines and Pylons
- Steering Committees
- Wildlife and landscape
- Recreation
- Working with communities
- Grants for Rural Communites
- St Edmundsbury Rural Areas Community Initiatives Fund
- Grants and advice for Landowners
- Volunteers
- Stour Valley Path Volunteers
- Sustainable Development
- Interactive Map
- Stour Valley timeline
- Image Gallery
Did you know...
436 workdays equating to £22,000 worth of work (accepted rates for volunteer labour) were undertaken by this dedicated team last year.
The Stour Valley Volunteers (SVV) carry out practical conservation work every other Wednesday. Work is carried out throughout the Stour Valley on nature reserves and private land. The tasks are designed to maintain and improve the environment for wildlife, recreation and landscape quality. Click on the link alongside for more details.
The work is seasonal by nature and a typical year will include:
- Woodland Management: including the ancient arts of coppicing, and layering as well as planting sections of new woodland and hedgerow.
- Grassland Management: cutting and raking valuable areas of ancient grassland to promote wildflowers such as orchids.
- Maintaining Rights of Way: building bridges, steps and boardwalks along the public rights of way that criss cross the Stour valley.
- Promoting biodiversity: by building homes and improving habitat for threatened species such as otters, dormice and barn owls or by maintaining a tree nursery for rare native trees.
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