We’ve added a whole host of new events for autumn/winter 2018 to our website, including lots of conservation volunteer days with the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham & the Black Country and a fascinating guided walk focusing on the history of the local area. All the details are below and also on our Events page!

• Conservation volunteer day, Portway Hill, Friday 7th September 2018, 10:00am – 3:00pm. Join the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham & the Black Country at Portway Hill for a fun day out meeting new people, helping the environment and learning new skills. Meet on St Brades Close; ensure you are dressed appropriately for the forecast weather conditions, and wear sturdy footwear. You will need to bring along a packed lunch but tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. No need to book, just turn up!

• Looking Back: A guided walk-and-talk over the Rowley Hills with archive photographs, Saturday 15th September, 10:30am – 1:00pm. Led by Mike Poulton and Jim Rippin, cost: £6 (all proceeds go to the Friends of Rowley Hills. This specially designed guided walk-and-talk is based around a series of remarkable photographs taken by Jim Rippin over the last seventy years. The walk will invite us to see the area in new and fascinating ways, helping us to reflect on the many changes that have taken place within living memory. Booking is essential; for more information and to book your place, go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/looking-back-a-guided-walk-over-the-rowley-hills-with-archive-photographs-tickets-49033218677.

• Conservation volunteer day, Portway Hill, Friday 5th October 2018, 10:00am – 3:00pm. Join the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham & the Black Country at Portway Hill for a fun day out meeting new people, helping the environment and learning new skills. Meet on St Brades Close; ensure you are dressed appropriately for the forecast weather conditions, and wear sturdy footwear. You will need to bring along a packed lunch but tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. No need to book, just turn up!

• Geoconservation day, Portway Hill, Saturday 6th October 2018, 10:30am – 2:30pm. Join the Black Country Geological Society to help excavate and expose more of the dolerite at Blue Rock Quarry. Meet on St Brades Close; wear old clothes, waterproofs and stout footwear. Please bring gloves and tools: spades, brushes, trowels, loppers, saws etc. and a packed lunch. For more info please visit the BCGS website.

• Conservation volunteer day, Portway Hill, Saturday 20th October 2018, 10:00am – 3:00pm. Join the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham & the Black Country at Portway Hill for a fun day out meeting new people, helping the environment and learning new skills. Meet on St Brades Close; ensure you are dressed appropriately for the forecast weather conditions, and wear sturdy footwear. You will need to bring along a packed lunch but tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. No need to book, just turn up!

• Conservation volunteer day, Portway Hill, Friday 2nd November 2018, 10:00am – 3:00pm. Join the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham & the Black Country at Portway Hill for a fun day out meeting new people, helping the environment and learning new skills. Meet on St Brades Close; ensure you are dressed appropriately for the forecast weather conditions, and wear sturdy footwear. You will need to bring along a packed lunch but tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. No need to book, just turn up!

• Conservation volunteer day, Portway Hill, Saturday 17th November 2018, 10:00am – 3:00pm. Join the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham & the Black Country at Portway Hill for a fun day out meeting new people, helping the environment and learning new skills. Meet on St Brades Close; ensure you are dressed appropriately for the forecast weather conditions, and wear sturdy footwear. You will need to bring along a packed lunch but tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. No need to book, just turn up!