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Restoring nature can make you feel good. Connecting people and wildlife in the Coalfields across 12 Greenspaces.

Links with Nature is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.

29/10/2026

Last Tuesday, Greenspaces Officer, Hayley, and the Links with Nature volunteers headed to Copt Hill to continue work on the grassland ✂🧹

The team focused on cutting and raking off the last remaining strands of vegetation, helping to prevent nutrient return to the soil. This practice increases competition in the meadow and helps keep coarser grasses at bay, encouraging biodiversity to increase within the meadow sward 🌸 Encroaching vegetation was also cut back along the footpaths, helping to keep the site open and accessible for people to enjoy 🚶🏼‍♀️

For more volunteering opportunities contact Hayley, Greenspaces Officer: [email protected] 🌱

Keep an eye out for upcoming events and project updates or register to volunteer (18+): https://tinyurl.com/LWNVolunteer 💚 Book onto events and find out more about Links with Nature 👉https://linktr.ee/linkswithnature

Links with Nature is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.

Coalfield Sunderland Community Let’s Talk HALO- Hetton Sunderland Volunteering Sunderland, UK Sunderland GP Alliance

29/10/2026

Just a few days left of ! Here is your 29th Bat Fact 🦇

Links with Nature is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.

28/10/2026

Fungi season is well underway! 🍄

Links with Nature recently hosted the North East Fungus Study Group for another Fungi Foray - this time at Elemore Vale 🌿 Guided by experts in the group, Links with Nature staff and volunteers spent the morning searching high and low for any fungi specimens they could find 🔎 Despite the recent dry weather, the group still managed to find plenty of cool mushrooms - including an impressive display of birch polypore growing upon a silver birch. Did you know that birch polypore has long been used as a natural wound dressing? 🩹

Thank you to the North East Fungus Study Group for a great morning of fabulous fungi facts and discoveries 💚

Have you had any cool fungi spots this Autumn? Let us know in the comments below! 👇

Keep an eye out for upcoming events and project updates or register to volunteer (18+): https://tinyurl.com/LWNVolunteer 💚 Book onto events and find out more about Links with Nature 👉https://linktr.ee/linkswithnature

Links with Nature is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.

Coalfield Sunderland Community Let’s Talk HALO- Hetton Sunderland Volunteering Sunderland, UK Sunderland GP Alliance

28/10/2026

It's day 28 of , so here's your 28th Bat Fact! 🦇

Links with Nature is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.

27/10/2026

Here's your 27th Bat Fact for day 27 of ! 🦇

Links with Nature is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.

27/10/2026

Greenspaces Officer, Hayley, and a group of Links with Nature volunteers continued work at Herrington Country Park earlier this month with some fantastic dead hedge creation 💪🪾

The team used brash left over from hedgelaying training to line a footpath with a long dead hedge 🍂 Dead hedges are fabulous ways to recycle natural materials; not only do they add some structural diversity between the path and adjoining woodland, they are great habitats in their own right and provide shelter, warmth and resources to birds, small mammals, reptiles and invertebrates 🕷🪺

How brilliant does the end result look! 🤩💚

For more volunteering opportunities contact Hayley, Greenspaces Officer: [email protected] 🌱

Keep an eye out for upcoming events and project updates or register to volunteer (18+): https://tinyurl.com/LWNVolunteer 💚 Book onto events and find out more about Links with Nature 👉https://linktr.ee/linkswithnature

Links with Nature is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.

Coalfield Sunderland Community Let’s Talk HALO- Hetton Sunderland Volunteering Sunderland, UK Sunderland GP Alliance Herrington Country Park Friends of Herrington Country Park

26/10/2026

Another bat-tastic fact for day 26 of ! 🦇

Links with Nature is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.

26/10/2026

Earlier this month, the Links with Nature team joined Springboard for a Community Clean-up at Elemore Park 💪🚮

Staff and volunteers focused their efforts on the woodland compartments of the greenspace, removing littered items that could otherwise prove harmful to wildlife and visitors 🚯🍁

Thank you very much to all who helped out with the litterpick and to Sunderland City Council Sunderland, UK for taking away the rubbish 🤝💚

For more volunteering opportunities contact Hayley, Greenspaces Officer: [email protected] 🌱

Keep an eye out for upcoming events and project updates or register to volunteer (18+): https://tinyurl.com/LWNVolunteer 💚 Book onto events and find out more about Links with Nature 👉https://linktr.ee/linkswithnature

Links with Nature is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.

Coalfield Sunderland Community Let’s Talk HALO- Hetton Sunderland Volunteering Sunderland, UK Sunderland GP Alliance Springboard Elemore Park

25/10/2026

Here is your 25th Bat Fact of ! 🦇

Links with Nature is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.

24/10/2026

Starting your weekend off with Bat Fact no. 24 this 🦇

Links with Nature is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with thanks to National Lottery players.

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Durham Wildlife Trust, Rainton Meadows Nature Reserve
Houghton Le Spring
DH46PU

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