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Links
Local CV groups
HCV is affiliated to the national charity BTCV.
BTCV South Central
have offices at Chilworth near Southampton, tel: 023 8076
9719.
Wednesday
Conservation Volunteers meet almost every Wednesday,
somewhere in Hampshire.
For details contact Mac Millington (mac@haydenbarncottage.co.uk)
on 01730 829454 or Nick Humphrys (nick@portmore.plus.com) on 023
9226 7022.
New Forest Area Conservation Volunteers work on Sundays on reserves in the New Forest.
South Hampshire National Trust Volunteers For details, contact Mrs S. Floyd (floyds@waitrose.com)
Southampton University Conservation Volunteers have activities around Hampshire.
Friends of Chessel Bay look after a Local Nature Reserve on Southampton Water.
Worthys Conservation Volunteers work around the villages known as The Worthys, to the north of Winchester.
Nature in
Portsmouth and Havant by John Goodspeed covers various local
groups and wildlife topics, including information on the
Portsdown Hill Conservation Volunteers.
Working on a Woodland Trust reserve north of Waterlooville are the Park Wood group.
The Havant Conservation Action Project promotes the activities of a dozen groups in the Havant area.
Basingstoke
Conservation Volunteers do similar work to HCV in the north
of Hampshire.
Near Aldershot are Friends of Brickfields
Park
Conservation groups in the north-east of the county have formed the Blackwater Valley Countryside Partnership. The site gives details of groups and events.
Over the border into Berkshire are Berkshire
Conservation Volunteers and
Greenham and Crookham
Conservation Volunteers who work on Greenham Common near
Newbury.
Out to the west are Dorset
Countryside Volunteers
Please let me know of links to other local groups.
Volunteer Bureaux
Eastleigh
Volunteer Centre Eastleigh, ECS House, 16 Romsey Road, Eastleigh
SO50 9AL
Tel: 023 8090 2400, Email: volunteer@ecs-vol.org
Fareham
Volunteer Centre
163 West Street, Fareham PO16 0EF
Tel: 01329 231899, Email: jromicheva@farehamaction.org.uk
Gosport
Volunteer Centre Gosport, Martin Snape House, 96 Pavilion Way,
Gosport, PO12 1FG
Tel: 023 9258 8347, Fax: 023 9252 6323, Email: gosportvb@gva.org.uk
Winchester
The Winchester Centre, 68 St George's Street,Winchester, SO23
8AH
Tel: 01962 842293, Fax: 01962 848029, Email: wc@waca.org.uk
International Things
Besides giving HCV lots of jobs, Peter Potts of Hampshire County Council has been closely involved with an international project to restore water mills. The English part of the venture centred on Waltham Chase Mill near Bishops Waltham in Hampshire. For a comprehensive description, see the International Mills site. It features impressive aerial photos taken by HCV's former Tools Officer, David Young.
Other Links
Some of the places that we work at are managed by Hampshire County Council's Countryside Service. There is a comprehensive list of their sites, and general information.
Our regular visits to Goswell Brook on the Beaulieu Estate are for the Countryside Education Trust. We sometimes stay at their well-equipped Out of Town Centre on our residential weekends.
Wild About Britain is an on-line British wildlife magazine with daily news, forums, gallery, events calendar, encyclopedia and directory to nature and environment conservation issues across the UK.
The HubBub is a new (July 07) community listings service for Southampton.
Countryside Jobs Service has details of paid and voluntary jobs, training courses, an archive of newsletters, a wide-ranging glossary, and more.
