You can be a dinosaur's tooth-fairy!
On May 20th a dozen members of our Friday Wild Child Club will be making a 13 million millimetre walk from Noakes Grove to our Kings Field nature reserve - all on local footpaths.
As well as a physical challenge (an eight mile walk for youngsters from six to ten years old) it will be a walk back in time: each millimetre is five years and at the end of the walk the kids will be 65 million years back when the last dinosaurs lived in Essex.
The children who manage the whole walk will each get a genuine tooth from a Spinosaurus dinosaur.
The dinosaur walk is also a sponsored walk to raise money for our nature reserves. Would you be willing to sponsor each child who gets a dinosaur tooth? There will be no more than twelve of them, so a 25p per tooth sponsorship would, at most, cost you £3.00
Please email
dinosaur@walden-countryside.co.uk and tell us how much you would like to sponsor each tooth for. After the walk, we'll email you with news and photos and tell you how many children have earned your sponsorship.
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Our nature reserves, sheep, kids and wildlife
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Noakes Grove, Sewards End. |
| Noakes Grove, Sewards End. almost nine acres of ancient woodland, scrub and wild-flower meadows. Grazed by our small flock of sheep. The reserve is always open to the public: come and enjoy it. Learn more, leaflet download etc. |
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Kings Field, Hempstead. |
| Kings Field, Hempstead. Four acres of pasture land and hay meadow crossed by a small river. It is now open to the public now that the planned management work as started. Learn more. |
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Scotch Patch, Ellis Green, Wimbish.
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| Scotch Patch, Ellis Green, Wimbish. A one-acre traditional apple orchard which is part of the eight-acre Ellis Green Common Local Wildlife Site. Always open to the public. Learn more. |
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Our Sheep. are Wiltshire Horns |
Our Sheep. We have sixteen Wiltshire Horn sheep (ewes and ewe lambs) sometimes with a visiting ram.
The sheep are important because their grazing keeps our wildflower meadows in good condition. Read about our adopted ewes |
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Children's Activities
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Plants and animals. |
| Plants and animals. There are certainly more than 1000 different wild plant and animal species that live in our reserves. We currently have quite good lists for flowering plants, butterflies & moths and vertebrate animals at Noakes Grove. Take a look at the lists. Can you help add to our records? |
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Download our leaflets
We have a long list of printer friendly leaflets, visitor guides etc for you to download.
Take your pick
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Walden Countryside - who we are
We are a not-for-profit community interest company. The land at Noakes Grove is owned by Organic Countryside CIC [that's Walden Countryside's official name].
Our main activities centre around our nature reserves but we are not only interested in preserving their wildlife. We are trying to make them more like the Walden Countryside of a century ago:
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Producing local food without the use of pesticides and artificial fertilisers
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Getting people using the land: as volunteer workers or simply enjoying the countryside
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Encouraging children to enjoy, and learn about, their countryside
We are not just about creating and managing nature reserves, we want to:
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Persuade local councils and private land-owners to create more public access to areas of countryside
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Promote access to the countryside by campaigning for public rights of way to be kept accessible and adequately signed
Local Wildlife Sites
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There over a hundred local wildlife sites (mostly in private ownership, some publicly owned) in the northern half of Uttlesford.
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Walden Countryside aims to work with the owners of these sites to maintain and improve their value for wildlife
See full details of the sites in your parish.
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Helping Walden Countryside
We are a small organisation totally dependent on volunteers to do all the administrative and physical work and to raise the funds we need each year,
There are several ways you can help us financially: which one would suit you? |
by donating online (you choose how much and how often but we hope you will be able to give about £10 a year). "Friends" get our monthly newsletter via email. For more details and to donate click "Friend".
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Help us at no cost to you:
Where do you shop online?
The big names (Amazon, eBay, M & S, John Lewis) or any one of over 4000 other online merchants have all agreed to give us a small percentage of anything you spend with them. All you have to do is register with Easyfundraising.
Just browse online as you normally would and Easyfundraising will tell you when you are visiting a web site that has agreed to give donations to Organic Countryside.
PLEASE visit our Easyfundraising page and sign up. It costs you nothing and will be a huge help to us.
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Buy some shares
It is the shareholders of Organic Countryside CIC (the official name of Walden Countryside) who have provided the funds to buy Noakes Grove. Shareholders get no dividends or other financial benefits but they do own and direct the company. Purchase of a minimum of £100 in shares gives life membership of the company (well more than life, you can hand your shares on to the next generation).
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ESSEX LOTTERY
Each week a £1 ticket could win you £25,000
It's certain that it will give 50p to fund Noakes Grove
Please visit our page on the Essex lottery web site to find out more and buy your tickets |
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| Weekly Prizes |
Odds per ticket |
£25,000 |
1,000,000:1 |
£2,000 |
55,556:1 |
£250 |
5,556:1 |
£25 |
556:1 |
3 extra tickets |
56:1 |
50p to fund Walden Countryside |
Certainty |
Recently one of our supporters won £250 and 3 others have won smaller prizes. Next week it could be you and might be £25,000 |
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