We're back for another year!
We are eagerly anticipating the return of our open day for 2024 and hope to see you there on August 31st!
🦋 New this year! A special celebration 🦋
This year has been particularly challenging for our pollinators, with butterfly numbers at an all-time low. To celebrate these incredible creatures and their vibrant colours, we’re embracing a butterfly-themed event!
🦋 Butterfly Fancy Dress Competition 🦋
🌈 Join us, young and old alike, and join in our butterfly fancy dress - the best-dressed butterfly will be rewarded with a sweet treat to celebrate their creativity! 🌈
🔍 There will be many butterflies dotted around our site - how many will you be able to find?! 🔍
Read more about the butterflies and their plight in 2024 and how you can help.
In 'Kiddie Corner'
We will be running several crafts, including the chance to decorate your own pair of suncatcher butterfly wings to flutter home with.
We’ll have face painting to enhance your butterfly beauty—or perhaps you’d prefer to transform into a tiger or even a vampire bat! (within our skill level - be kind!😅)
🌞👩🏿🌾And as always, our Scarecrow Trail will be returning🧑🏻🌾🌞
🍬Can you find all the sneaky scarecrows with their hidden letters in order to solve the scarecrow's anagram! Completed anagrams will receive a sweet treat 🍬
Suncatcher Wings
Face paint
Scarecrow trail
Food and the important bits!
Things to look forward to:
- Rotary Club BBQ
- Delicious cakes and treats
- Tea & Coffee
- Allotment grown fresh fruit and veg on offer
- Jams, pickles & honey
- 🎵 Live music! 🎵
- 🍾 The RAFFLE! 🍾
The Important Bits
📢 CASH ONLY 📢 Due to location this will be a cash only event. Please bring plenty of change, it would be hugely appreciated.
Parking: Parking is limited and therefore we ask people to walk to the event where possible, and to be mindful of our neighbours.
Location: Townfield Allotments are located at the top of Landale Way where it meets Townfield Lane, WA6 7LX.
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Come and join us!
The Big Butterfly Count
The charity, which crowdsources data from UK participants through their Big Butterfly Count, put out a blog post explaining that participants are reporting “just over half” the amount of butterflies compared to this time last year. This year’s Big Butterfly Count concludes on August 4.
“The lack of butterflies this year is a warning sign to us all. Nature is sounding the alarm and we must listen,” said Dan Hoare, Butterfly Conservation’s director of conservation said in the post. Butterflies are a key indicator species. When they are in trouble we know the wider environment is in trouble too.”
Consider joining the Big butterfly count next year:
Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count is the largest citizen-science project of its kind and is a positive action everyone can take to help collect important scientific data which informs policy decision making and conservation effort.
The public are asked to spend just 15 minutes outside when in a sunny spot and record the number and type of butterflies they see.
Whether done with friends and family, or in a moment of quiet and calm solitude, the Big Butterfly Count is free, fun and quick to do.