January Blue skies
24th January 2022
Coast Care busy start to the New year with beautiful January blue skies...
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CoastCare Volunteers feature in Cross border Coastal Clean up
4th October 2021
Coast Care volunteers feature in the Cross Border Coastal Clean up Video as part of the Great British Beach Clean ...
Embleton Quarry help continues
4th October 2021
Coast Care Volunteers continue Habitat Management work at Embleton quarry nature reserve....
Great British Beach Clean
25th September 2021
Coast Care Supports the Marine Conservation Society by taking part in the Great British Beach Clean & Surveys...
Piri Piri Burr Removal on the Dunes Continues
13th August 2021
Piri Piri burr Volunteer work parties continue in partnership with the Space for Shorebirds team....
What does 23 sessions, 15 months, 8 volunteers, 2 members of staff and 1 very determined lead volunteer get you?
2nd February 2021
One transformed traditionally built dry stone wall leading into one of Northumberland’s quaintest villages....
Connecting Virtually at Coast Care
9th December 2020
Coast Care volunteers have been making the most of modern technology to socialise safely during these times of restriction and isolation....
Coast Care Volunteer Mandy Fall receives joint runner up in the 2020 Marsh Christian Trust Volunteer Award for Marine Conservation.
2nd December 2020
The award is run in partnership with the Wildlife Trusts and recognises a volunteer who has made an outstanding contribution to marine conservation and who has furthered the work of the Wildlife Trusts in this area. The Award is open to all 47 Wildlife Trusts, and volunteers are nominated by local Trusts. The Award is delivered in partnership with the Wildlife Trusts ‘Living Seas’ projects, a scheme for the conservation of the seas and marine wildlife. For more information about the awards visit: https://bit.ly/3g3v3aL...
Practical Conservation Update
11th November 2020
Since we returned from lockdown in July our volunteers have been carrying out many practical conservation tasks throughout the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. ...
21 Ways to Help Wildlife over Winter
20th October 2020
Like so many of us, our activities here at Coast Care have been curtailed by Covid-19. Our natural world still needs our help though, so we’ve put together a list of things you can do to help the environment in a safe, socially distanced way....
The Regeneration of Embleton Quarry Nature Reserve
7th October 2020
Our most recent plant survey at Embleton Quarry Nature Reserve uncovered 23 species that we haven’t seen there before. ...
The Farne Islands Trip That Never Was
30th September 2020
Today 40 of our most dedicated volunteers were due to set sail from Seahouses Harbour for a socially distanced trip around the Farne Islands as our way of thanking them for the time they give to Coast Care. ...
Volunteers increase Bamburgh Castle’s Biodiversity
11th September 2020
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. ...
The Impact of Volunteering at Beadnell Bay
4th September 2020
This summer a team of Coast Care volunteers surveyed an area of fixed dune within the SSSI at Beadnell Bay....
Lockdown Diaries - part 4
1st September 2020
And now for the Project Assistants; what did we get up to while we were furloughed?...
Lockdown Diaries - part 3
28th August 2020
Welcome back to our blog series on what we got up to during lockdown. ...
Lockdown Diaries - part 1
21st August 2020
Welcome to the first in a series of blogs about how we at Coast Care spent lockdown....