The Colne Valley Regional Park
The state of our rivers is of great concern. Tony Booker, Chairman of Colne Valley Fisheries Consultative, campaigns tirelessly against pollution, learn more about his fight to protect local rivers and raise awareness of this issue.
The Colne Valley Regional Park hosted a free online webinar on “improving the green belt and its planning” on 6th July 2021.
Roll up! Roll Up! For the Colne Valley Fabulous Festival Fortnight
We’d like to take the opportunity to say a huge thank you to the Colne Valley Volunteers as well as all the other amazing volunteer groups helping to look after our beautiful regional park!
The Colne Valley Team are working hard to reduce Invasive Species which are growing abundantly in the Colne Valley Park, damaging our native eco system. This takes determination as these species are very effective at spreading. Invasive Species week which runs from 24th -31st May 2021 has inspired the team to redouble their efforts.
The River Ash in Ashford has been re-naturalised for the benefit of wildlife and people, learn more here about how these improvements are bedding in.
We are very fortunate to have some conscientious volunteers here in the Colne Valley Park, learn more here about some of the hard work they do.
Welcome to our new spring newsletter which shares ideas on things to do at this time of year, interesting information about your local countryside and the work we do and includes why BBC’s Countryfile came to visit us. You can collect a copy from our Riverside café based at the Colne Valley Visitor Centre in Denham Country Park or take a little break and read the latest edition online here.
It is fantastic to see locals groups inspired by the coronavirus lockdown to volunteer to improve their local environment in the Colne Valley Regional Park. In Iver, a volunteer group has been doing an amazing job for some time. This article explains more about the group’s origins and how they work.
Groundwork South and London Borough of Hillingdon submitted a joint bid to the government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund for a project entitled ‘Natural Connections : Colne Valley Park’. We are excited to report that our project was approved.
