What's On Out There? The Bill's Mother's Links & Listings Service - March 2025
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Also Out There (News & Links)
What Is Wild? - Upcoming conference from Landscape Conservation Forum & South Yorks Biodiversity Research Group, about the human influence on modern and ancient landscapes, especially woodland. Free evening talk by author Mark Cocker and others on Weds 7th May
Friends of Concord Park & Woolley Wood - need new volunteers urgently!
Looking Up Sheffield - Podcaster and writer Loz Harvey’s new Substack has a great interview with local hero of wild walking, Terry Howard
New Peak parkrun - The new Black Rocks parkrun (near Matlock) has quietly started. Meanwhile, I hear the new Parkwood Springs run will still probably start this spring, with the trial run of the course now unlikely before March. I hope to have official news of both trial and official runs once the national paperwork is completed.
Right To Roam - Sign the petition asking the government to make good its intention to bring England and Wales into line with Scotland for countryside access.
Paths to the Future - The campaign by the Ramblers and others to repeal the deadline to record historic footpaths and rights of way has paid off: the government says it will now bin the original deadline set for 2031, and so allow local authorities the opportunity to record and renew thousands of footpaths across the UK.
March
All month - Sheffield Festival of the Outdoors (FOTO)
Sat 29th - Parkwood Springs conservation volunteering
Sat 29th - Sheffield CTC Cycle Ride
Sat 29th - Broomhall Biodiversity Guided Walk and Seed Bomb Planting
Sun 30th - Yorkshire Rose Womens Cycle Rides
Sun 30th - Sheffield CTC Cycle Ride - Peak Forest
Mon 31st - National Trust walk - Mam Tor walk & litter pick
Mon 31st - Fri 4th - Daily health walks in parks and green spaces from Step Out Sheffield, 10 am start
Tues 1st - Friends of Ecclesall Woods volunteer & footpath repair session
Weds 2nd - Longshaw Social Walk
Weds 2nd - Shirebrook Valley - Volunteer Session
Thurs 3rd - Green City Action Grimesthorpe community allotment
Fri 4th - Social Walk from Edale
Sat 5th - Parkwood Springs conservation volunteering
Sat 5th - Sheffield CTC Cycle Ride - Rotherham
Sun 6th - Yorkshire Rose Womens Cycle Rides
Sun 6th - Sheffield CTC Cycle Ride - Jackson Bridge
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