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  • Welcoming EMAS to a nature-based activity day

    08 June 2024

    Welcoming EMAS to a nature-based activity day

    It was a great pleasure for the Trust to welcome around 40 members of Brighton-based Ethnic Minority Achievement Service (EMAS) to Woods Mill for a wellbeing day in nature

     
  • Meet the staff - Helen Rafferty

    08 June 2024

    Meet the staff - Helen Rafferty

    Meet our new Head of People and Operations - Helen Rafferty. Find out about her love of working for organisations with cause and purpose, as well as her saxophone skills and what makes for a perfect Sunday

     
  • Happy World Ocean Day!

    08 June 2024

    Happy World Ocean Day!

    World Ocean Day is on June 8th every year and is the day we celebrate how vital the Ocean is to the health of our planet.

     
  • Meet Charles Ashe - Volunteer Reserve Manager

    07 June 2024

    Meet Charles Ashe - Volunteer Reserve Manager

    Meet Volunteer Reserve Manager for West Dean woods, Charles Ashe and find out about the reserve and the coppicing regime that happens here

     
  • Staff - favourite marine species for World Ocean Day

    07 June 2024

    Staff - favourite marine species for World Ocean Day

    For World Ocean Day 2024, we asked around the staff team for their favourite marine species. There is such an amazing world of wildlife beneath (and near) the water.

     
  • Swifts - the screaming 'devil birds' of summer

    06 June 2024

    Swifts - the screaming 'devil birds' of summer

    They may not look like much (they’re basically two wings and a mouth) but it’s hard to explain their abilities without making them sound supernatural. Read about Swifts.

     
  • Swimming with Terns

    03 June 2024

    Swimming with Terns

    Rye Harbour Nature Reserve is famous for its breeding colonies of Tern. Volunteer, David Bentley, tells us about his idea of a perfect summers day spent swimming with them.

     
  • A volunteering double act

    03 June 2024

    A volunteering double act

    It’s Volunteers Week 2024 and we’d like to introduce husband and wife, Janet and Peter Mann. Find out what’s kept them volunteering at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve for the last seven years.

     
  • Volunteers reminisce part 3. Setting up SxBRC, Seasearch, Shoresearch and more

    02 June 2024

    Volunteers reminisce part 3. Setting up SxBRC, Seasearch, Shoresearch and more

    Gerald Legg tells us about decades of volunteering out on reserves with his Land Rover, helping to set up the Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre, as well as supporting Shoresearch

     

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