EVENTS & MEETINGS

Wild About Sandgate - planning meeting

Come along to the Reading Room above The Old Fire Station, Sandgate High Street to share your ideas; find out how to get involved or just simply to find out more about it. 

Wild About Sandgate

We have recently received the exciting news that we have been awarded a £1000 grant from Folkestone and Hythe District Council for our Wild About Sandgate project with the end aim of creating a Community Nature Reserve in Sandgate.  Basically the project aims to raise awareness of all the public green spaces in Sandgate, including the sea and shoreline by educating and enthusing people about everything that lives and grows in them. Alongside this, the project will  support and encourage people to take positive action by making micro nature reserves in their own gardens, balconies or windowsills and lend the odd hand  to volunteer groups like  the  Sandgate Sprucers, Sandgate Environmental Action and Sandgate Community Garden in keeping the public spaces however small, literally blooming beautiful and full of life. All these spaces together will create a patchwork of mini habitats across Sandgate which will link the areas, encouraging nature to flourish.

 
Launch Event
The project will include an illustrated map of all the green spaces and a family friendly launch event on Sunday 7th June in Enbrook Park plus a series of mini events such as moth trapping; bird walks; mini beast safaris etc. Wild about Sandgate will link to our existing citizen science  project Sandgate Watch where through an app people can record local wildlife and fauna from algae on tree bark to seaweed; to trees and flowers and animals of all description. 
 
SAGA have kindly given us permission to use their formal lawns for the launch event so we have the opportunity to make it into something really special. We are having a planning/sharing of ideas meet-up on Thursday 30th October  at 4pm in the Reading Room at the Old Fire Station and if you have an idea or would like to be involved in any way please do come along. It would be helpful if you could let us know by emailing sandgateenvironmentalaction@gmail.com so we have an idea of numbers.