Cherwell District Council
Cherwell District Council has a Nature Conservation Strategy 1999 - 2004
Activities and services:
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Landscape Conservation Grants - available for pond restoration, amenity tree planting, willow pollarding, hedgerow work, trees surgery, and restoration of historic landscape features. This grant scheme provides up to 60% of approved costs
Countryside Access and Nature Conservation Project Grants - available for access improvement, land acquisition and development for environmental education
Cherwell Countryside Forum (meets twice a year).
Database of local organisations, groups and individuals interested in conservation
District Nature Conservation Strategy and Annual Review
Geographic coverage:This is a national society. The contact listed covers Oxfordshire.
Key contacts:
Bodicote House, Bodicote, nr Banbury OX15 4AA Tel: 01295 252535
Leisure services: General Fax: 01295 263155
Nature Conservation Strategy and Developments: Jeremy Sacha Tel: 01295 221704
Nature Conservation Strategy, Landscape Conservation Grants and Countryside Forum: Sue Marchand Tel: 01295 221707, Email:sue.marchand@cherwell-dc.gov.uk
Countryside Forum, Specific Projects: Kevin Larner Tel: 01295 221706
Trees: Steven Bishop Tel: 01295 221708
Also Environmental Health
Agenda 21, etc: Philip Middlewood Tel: 01295 221636 Website: www.cherwell-dc.gov.uk
Community Services
Clarendon House, 52 Cornmarket Street, Oxford OX1 3HD
Wildlife Training Programme Steve Pickles, Planning Assistant Tel: 01865 252163
Also the following community groups work very closely with Oxford City Council
- Black poplar propagation and planting Anthony Roberts (01865) 715830
- Cavell Road Nature Area Julia Spragg (01865) 715159
- East Oxford Community Nature Plan Group Mari Girling 01865 249925
- Friends of Lye Valley nature reserve, talks, practical work parties Kirsten Ward 0411 077065.
- Headington Quarry Community Nature Plan Group Dee Sinclair (01865) 765260
- Iffley Fields Community Nature Plan Group
- North Oxford Defence Association- work on Trap Grounds reed bed Joyce Thomas (01865) 511947 or Catherine Robinson Email: catherine.m.robinson@btinternet.com
- Risinghurst and Sandhill Community Nature Plan Group Julia Baxter (01865) 252114
- South Oxford Community Nature Plan Yan Wong (day 01865 272999) and Nicky Warren
- West Oxford Community Nature Plan Julia Hamer-Hunt (01865) 240904
- Wolvercote Tree Group - planting, looking after trees Nick Burrows (01865) 552885
Notes:
For organisations that have a geographical coverage that stretches beyond Oxfordshire, the most accessible contact for Oxfordshire activities is listed.
M - These groups run a membership subscription scheme, but will very often provide initial advice free of charge
NL - Newsletter
This Directory may not provide the total coverage of the activities of the groups listed. It concentrates on environmental and nature conservation activities.
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