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Upcoming events

Volunteer session - Saturday 20 September 2025

Join us in the reserve to help with improving the habitat. Everyone's welcome from 11am! We normally spend a couple of hours on site and its advisable to wear trousers, a long sleeved top and bring water. You'll also need gardening gloves.

We'll be focusing our collective efforts in Mudcombe (the field above the brook). Now that the bird nesting season has ended, we can return to managing the scrub and brambles, building on the great work that volunteers started in 2024 and earlier this year. We’ll also continue to clear the barbed wire from the site.

Meet by the kissing gate on Charlcombe Way.

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Past events

Native bluebells in Charlcombe Community Nature Reserve

Bioblitz

We recorded 105 species - including 46 for the first time - as part of the City Nature Challenge in April 2025. Our aim was to see how many species we could record in two hours, joining in with over 650 other cities across the world as part of the City Nature Challenge.

Volunteers clearing brambles in Charlcombe Community Nature Reserve

Scrub and bramble clearance

Working with an amazing group, The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), we cut back invasive brambles to open the reserve up to a wider variety of wildflowers and other plant species.

Using reptile mats to track species in Charlcombe Community Nature Reserve

Reptile counting

Since April 2025 we have been monitoring reptile mats across both Great Park and Mudcombe. So far we have found two slow worms, some toads, froglets and toadlets, and a shrew. You'll notice some of the mats and corrugated sheets across the reserve - helping to create habitats, ideally for reptile and also amphibians.

Long-tailed tit in tree in Charlcombe Community Nature Reserve

Big Garden Birdwatch

In January 2025 as part of the RSPB's Birdwatch census, we counted 18 different bird species in the reserve — including this delightful 'flying teaspoon', also known as a long-tailed tit, and a kestrel. You can use the free merlin app to help identify birds found around the reserve from green woodpeckers to goldfinches.

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