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Watlington Watercourse Discovery Trail

Discover the Watlington Watercourses using the attached Trail Guide and Map, Trail Map and Guide designed by James Fotherby. Please share...

Ghost Hedgehog Workshop

The Ghost Hedgehog workshop was the last event of the Nature Festival and was attended by several families despite wet and windy weather....

Save our Hedgehogs!

Top Tips for Helping Hedgehogs in Winter: Hedgehogs usually hibernate from late December/early January, so they are now busy looking for...

Plastic Free Champion - That Lovely Stuff

Congratulations to Nicola Challis of That Lovely Stuff who has been awarded Plastic Free Champion Status! Nicola stocks a wide range of...

Viking Silver and Chiltern Chalk

On Saturday the 17th October, the chalk pits on Watlington Hill were transformed into a Viking camp. Upon entering the chalk pits,...

The Lost Words Oxfordshire Competition

A competition inspired by the book The Lost Words" by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, presented by The Lost Words for Oxfordshire...

Clean Air Day

Air pollution is a huge national problem but it can be solved. Already the organisation Client Earth as taken the UK government to court...

Well Being Workshop

WATLINGTON NATURE FESTIVAL Explore the connection between health, art and nature no need to be good at art! For teenagers & young adults...

Clean Air Day

Last year many of us signed up to Watlington Parish Council’s initiative to make a pledge to help keep Watlington’s air clean, for...

UN report on Biodiversity

The Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 report was published last month, and while there has been some progress, the world has failed to meet a...

Make Do and Mend - Rob Field’s Repair Tips:

My first tip.... Most things plastic end up breaking, snapping off or cracking. The biggest problem we have in fixing these things is to...

#SecondHandSeptember

Second hand September has finished, the Oxfam led initiative to encourage people to move away from fast fashion. According to Oxfam, 13...

THE BIG SQUEEZE - Review

On Sunday 27th September the weather, the apples, the pears, the bottles, and the press all aligned like beautiful stars between 11 am...

Wildlife gardening – preparing for Winter

As Autumn kicks in, thoughts are turning to tidying gardens ready for winter, but if you want to encourage wildlife there are a few...

GUIDED WALKS AROUND WATLINGTON

In association with the Chilterns Walking Festival Viking Silver & Chilterns Chalk Saturday 17th October 2020 (1:30pm & 2:30pm) Free Find...

The Big Squeeze

FULLY BOOKED Press your own apples Sunday 27th September 11am-3pm The Spire & Spoke Book your 20min slot watlingtonnaturefestival@gmail.c...

Watlington Nature Festival

Remember how good it felt to be allowed to take that first walk in the countryside when we went into lockdown? The abundance of...

The Blame Game

In trying to get people to understand the seriousness of the Climate Emergency, one common objection to taking action on the Climate...

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