Nature news, events and conservation opportunities in the Manifold Valley

Next meeting

Our next ManifoldCAN meeting will be on Tuesday 21st January, 7-9pm at the Black Lion Inn, Butterton. As feedback from the last meeting and from online questionnaires showed that river monitoring was considered to be one of the main areas of concern in the Manifold Valley, this next meeting will be focusing on this, with discussion about how we can get involved in river monitoring, including water quality testing, Riverfly Monitoring, and trail cameras to monitor birds and animals in the Manifold River. We will be joined by Les Warren, from AshCom (which has been running a community river monitoring project in Ashbourne), Tim Pickering (our Area Contact for Citizen Science at the Environment Agency, and Riverfly Monitoring expert) and Luke McCusker (Senior River Ranger from Severn Trent Water), who have kindly agreed to come and share their knowledge and experiences of river monitoring.

Nature in Your Neighbourhood

We are delighted to share that a couple of the sites in the Manifold Valley (in Longnor and at the Manifold Valley Visitor Centre in Hulme End) have been selected for inclusion in Staffordshire Wildlife Trust's (SWT) Nature in Your Neighbourhood project. The next step is for SWT to undertake site visits to meet members of the community that wish to get involved in the project, and the site visit to the Manifold Valley Visitor Centre takes place on Thursday 5th December at 10am (meeting outside the Visitor Centre).

Manifold Mugs

To help raise a bit of extra funding for ManifoldCAN, we have a small number of ManifoldCAN mugs, which are available to purchase.  The mugs cost £10 each, with all profits from sales going to ManifoldCAN. If you would like to buy one, please contact us.

More news

You can find out more information on the above, and catch up on all our other news, by reading our newsletters.