BJCAG - Burton Joyce Climate Action Group

31/05/2026

The big river watch spring survey results have been published.

Find out what you reported during the latest Big River Watch survey.

23/05/2026

Latest advice from the RSPB on garden bird feeding.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/news/how-to-help-garden-birds

20/05/2026

This was spotted on the River Trent a few days ago. We want to find out what is happening to our river so we will be testing areas like this when we see them.

For more information on the water testing project see... https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS00000AAz9JYAT


 
 
 

20/05/2026

Celebrate World Bee Day with Us - United Nations Sustainable Development

Every year on 20 May, we celebrate World Bee Day to remind everyone how important bees are. Bees help plants grow by moving pollen between flowers. This is called pollination, and it helps almost 90% of flowering plants and more than 75% of the food we eat grow strong and healthy. But bees are in

04/05/2026

Join us for No Mow May and help to protect our environment.

The signs around the village identify the sections of land that will not be mown during May.

Thanks go to the BJ Parish Council for supporting this initiative.

04/05/2026

The BJ guides joined BJCAG to help with two of our current projects: to raise funds for river water testing with the Trent Rivers Trust AND to help test the river water on that day for the Fresh Water Watch project. You may have seen them in the Co-op - couldn't miss them actually :)

Over £100 was raised - wow!

As you see from the images we found a significant amount of nitrate in the water, the phosphate was low, and the pH slightly higher than neutral.

Thank you guides, great job!
Thank you Co-op management for allowing us to be in the store on the day.

04/05/2026

A big thank you!

Mind the Monitoring Gap Campaign Water Testing on the River Trent

We would like to thank the individuals and local groups who donated to our fund-raising campaign to ensure we get training and equipment to monitor the water quality on the River Trent for 12 months. The total raised across the three community groups (one on the River Derwent one on the River Dove and us) was £3557. This exceeded our target and we could not have done this without your help. We know that lots of individuals used the QR code to donate in addition to the donations we know we had from Burton Joyce Parish Council, Burton Joyce Village Society and Ashfield Anglers. There was a lot of local support for this work, we all love our access to the River but are worried about what’s in the water.

We had stalls at the community market and in the Coop where people could make cash donations and they did! The last session in the Coop with the Guides helping us, we got over £100 in cash alone.

We will start the monitoring in May after being trained by staff at the Trent Rivers Trust. We thank the River Trust for their support. We will monitor the water quality twice a month for 12 months sending the data to the Trent Rivers Trust who will produce a report for the Environment Agency.

We have already been doing our own monitoring, with Freshwater Watch kits, but the Trent Rivers Trust testing and training will be more detailed and will test for more pollutants. We will report on our findings as we get them. We are hoping to involve local people in the data gathering - please get in touch in any of the ways set out below if you are interested.

Email: [email protected]
Instagram: _Action
Website/Blog: https://bjcag.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093239544962

22/04/2026

📢Donation page is OPEN📢

Please help us to carry out Trent river water testing in collaboration with Trent Rivers Trust.

You can donate NOW at this link

https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS00000AAz9JYAT

OR use the QR code attached.

Donations made between 22 and 29 April will be doubled.