Join ActivLives for a FREE event to enjoy nature and discover wildlife during the summer holidays.

What’s on offer:

• Explore the garden.
• Bug hunt & butterfly count.
• Nature crafts.
• Bee experience – visit the hives.
• Meet other local families.
• Bring and share your picnic lunch.
• Refreshments available.

Event: Go Wild Family Nature Day.
Location: The People’s Community Garden, Maidenhall Allotments, Halifax Road, Ipswich IP2 8RE
Date & Time: Monday 10^th August, 11am-2pm

PLEASE NOTE: The event is most suitable for families with young children aged up to 11 years. All children must be supervised by an adult.

Please book your place by contacting Project officer Phoebe Hyett via e-mail – [email protected] – or phone – 07756 533424 or call the ActivLives office on 01473 345350

Wild About Nature

Wild About Nature is an exciting project at Ipswich-based charity ActivLives. It aims to involve the community in caring for nature and the environment.

The project brings people together to grow and garden sustainably, maintain and develop areas for wildlife, and learn about beekeeping at our urban allotment community garden.

The project is funded for two years by the National Lottery Community Fund. It will offer weekly volunteering and beekeeping sessions alongside nature-based activities both at the community garden and out in the community.

Activities include:

• Nature-based Volunteering – Mondays 10am to 12 noon
• Beekeeping – Monday 12.30am to 2.30pm
• Activity session for your group – please get in touch to arrange

ActivLives would like to thank National Lottery players for making this work possible.

For more information, please contact ActivGardens Development Manager Susannah Robirosa by e-mail – [email protected] – or phone: 07530 407302 or call ActivLives Office on 01473 345350

Wild About Nature will give local people regular contact with nature right on their doorstep to engender a sense of delight and responsibility for the natural world, foster an understanding of key issues, and develop important skills related to caring for the environment.
Designed to be diverse and inclusive, the project will involve a wide range of people and new groups. Activities will include volunteering, learning and participation in practical activities. This will equip them with the skills and knowledge to enhance their own gardens and green spaces in environmentally responsible ways which make space for wildlife.

By participating, people will improve their physical and mental health and wellbeing, learn skills and gain confidence, and become an active part of their community.

Together we will improve local biodiversity by investigating what we have, researching what we could do improve it, and taking positive action – building a green wave from our community garden outwards into the local community.