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A recent plant survey undertaken by Coast Care volunteers has revealed that our work at Bamburgh Castle has increased the diversity of this iconic historic location. ...
This summer a team of Coast Care volunteers surveyed an area of fixed dune within the SSSI at Beadnell Bay....
And now for the Project Assistants; what did we get up to while we were furloughed?...
Welcome back to our blog series on what we got up to during lockdown. ...
Welcome to the first in a series of blogs about how we at Coast Care spent lockdown....
Recently, a group of volunteers returned to Boulmer to survey a very special area....
Lockdown has been a strange time for all of us, with many people missing the freedom to spend unlimited time outdoors and a sense of purpose or fulfilment....
Micro-volunteering is a growing trend, but what is it and how can you get involved?...
I am really excited to be starting at Coast Care - my first job in conservation! I can’t wait to work alongside the volunteers and get stuck into some practical conservation work....
We received a visit recently from Professor John Hobrough, local bee expert with sixty years of beekeeping and research behind him. He very kindly gave a talk to our volunteers to feed back to them about the results of a study we were involved in last summer. It was fascinating to hear about what the survey found and how it can help to protect our bees and other pollinating insects in the future. ...
The team would like to give some feedback from 2019 as it has been an amazing year which has seen an increase in volunteer engagement and also plenty of new opportunities for everyone to get involved and contribute to the conservation efforts along the Northumberland coastline....
One of the many tasks that Coast Care volunteers have been working on is to clear the ivy (Hedera helix) from the ramparts outside Bamburgh Castle....
Hello! I’m Em Witcutt, Coast Care Project Assistant (Volunteer Engagement and Communication) and I started the role in August 2019....
The sun shone on Embleton Quarry this August bank holiday weekend - perfect weather for a bioblitz! ...
Well, my first few months with Coast Care have flown by!...
Pirri Pirri or to give it it’s scientific name Acaena novae-zelandiae is a prickly problem on the Northumberland coast....
As a volunteer for Coast Care I was invited to visit the Materials Recycling Facility in West Sleekburn to see what happens to the rubbish we put in our recycling bins...