If you've resolved that 2026 is the year to start leading a healthier lifestyle, improve your local environment, or even if you are simply keen to get away from the relentlessly grim news cycle and take some positive real world action - then here are five ways you can start, and all right on your doorstep with your local Nature Recovery Network!
1. Join NRN's hedge planting day this Sunday 11th January! We'll be planting a brand new hedgerow in the meadow upstream of the lock along the Thames path - more info here
2. Come along to our weekly Wednesday plant propagation day - cultivating rare wildflower plants to enable all the meadow restoration projects the network is undertaking!
3. Join our bird survey group's first walk of 2026 on Saturday 7th February and start to understand how to recognise our most common birds.
4. Learn how to lay a hedge with our indepth expert weekend workshop on 21st-22nd February
5. Attend our Wild Arts Invertebrates session on Saturday 7th March - fusing science and art at Mill Street Arts - more info here soon
Make a change in 2026! Join the Nature Recovery Network!