20th May is World Bee Day, and the plight of bees and pollinators more widely in the UK has never been so poor. In March 2022 the UK overruled scientific advice by lifting a ban on bee-harming pesticides, authorising an emergency exception for its use on sugar beet in England. Here are some simple things that you can do to help bees.

This talk will explore some of the ideas and options involved in successful woodland design. Of the land the National Trust owns, ten percent is woodland and they have made a commitment to increase this to 17 percent over the next ten years, planting 20 million trees over the next decade. This talk is an opportunity to find out what this might mean to our local environment here in Nailsworth.