Look out for Explore in ’24 on the Green
What’s Explore in ’24? It’s the Green’s year-long celebration of 25 years of setting up, expanding, working on and enjoying the town’s wonderful 55 acres of open space. The first Explore in ’24 event was the Big Bird Count on the same day as the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. On a cold unpromising day the group recorded 26 different species including Cetti’s warbler and siskin, capped off at the very end by 20 redpoll swooping in to land. And now spring is really beginning with chiff chaffs in the hedges and frogspawn in the pond.
The next Explore in ’24 event will be on Sunday 21st April, a Water Vole and Otter walk along the waterways; then for the early risers a Dawn Chorus Walk on Sunday 5th May; at the end of May on Thursday 30th Plant Hunting; as summer gets going a very special Bike Day on Saturday 15th June; at the end of June on Sunday 30th another Plant Hunting walk and then a Bat Evening Walk on Wednesday 7th August – and more in the months after that. Very, very soon further details, with more added as the year goes on, will be on the Green’s website (address below) under “Our Activities / What’s On”.
Thank you Halesworth for your response to the survey forms the volunteers posted through most of the letterboxes in town. We have had masses of replies in the collecting boxes we placed in the Library, Chinny’s and The Angel – many thanks to them for giving our boxes the space – telling us about how you use the Green, what you value about it and how you would like to help. We have replied to nearly all those offers now but if we somehow missed you out and there is something you think you could do to help the Green thrive – join a work party? help with social media? do some bookkeeping? help do the backroom work to get a project along to delivery? – get in touch (email below).
And a particularly big thank you to the kind anonymous donor who posted a big gift of money through the letterbox at the Bainers’ house. Right at the beginning of our special year that was so wonderfully cheering.
It’s 25 years since the Green was set up in 1999 with the help of money from government, Europe, local businesses, local groups and individuals. The town is so lucky to have this extraordinary, huge, open space, with free public access to every part, and bursting with wildlife – some of it rare and all of it special. The Green has an active and cheerful volunteer body helping with work-parties, planning events, keeping on top of the finance, running the special projects that crop up. Come and be part of it all. Have a browse on www.millenniumgreen.halesworth.net and contact the Green at