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The lovely people in our recruitment team are the friendly faces of BBOWT. Why not
join them and help to promote local wildlife? News in brief
Members are the lifeblood of your local talking to different people about wildlife (AMY DENNESS)Mind the nightjars
Wildlife Trust, providing the financial is really enjoyable and no two days are
support we need to protect wildlife in the same. I’m proud to be promoting the (katie gardner)Nightjars have declined
our area. Did you know that more than essential work that the Trust does.” dramatically in recent years.
half our members join as a result of our Now these ground-nesting
membership recruiters? Perhaps you were Membership recruiters come from all summer migrants are
one of them? backgrounds, including career changers, receiving extra protection
those looking to supplement their from three new wardens
We’re always looking for new recruiters retirement income, or fit in with another who are on hand at
to join the team. Working at a variety of part-time role. Full training is provided and Snelsmore and Greenham Commons to advise
venues, from shops and garden centres to no sales experience is required, just a love visitors on the best routes to avoid the locations
special shows and events, our membership of wildlife. where nightjars are known to nest.
recruiters work between three to five
days a week. It’s a great way to meet new To find out how to become BBC Countryfile Live
people while sharing your love of wildlife, a membership recruiter visit
and you don’t need to be an expert. bbowt.org.uk/jobs/f2f Make 3–6 August a date for
your diary, as BBC Countryfile
Anna Bernard has been recruiting Or contact Wildlife Fundraising at Live returns to Blenheim
members for BBOWT for two years: “As hr@wildlifefundraising.org or Palace. BBOWT is curating the
a part-time recruiter I love the flexibility 0333 3207 273. popular Wildlife Zone, which
the role offers. Visiting different places and will feature BBC Countryfile
presenter Ellie Harrison.
Share your enthusiasm Select the promotion: BBOWT and enter the code
for nature as a BBOWT when you book tickets at www.countryfilelive.
membership recruiter. com to get £3 discount on standard advance tickets.
Away bad spirits(JON CRUISE)
(LIZ CHILD)Bad spirits were spooked
at the Nature Discovery
Wildlife makes business sense Centre’s annual Thatcham
Community Orchard wassail.
Greenham Common saw an enthusiastic If your company would like to find out During this traditional (and(TOYAH BAULK)
group from Thames Water Customer more about partnering with BBOWT then eccentric!) ceremony toast is
Support Centre help out on a very chilly please get in touch with Laura Pepper placed into the trees to feed
December day. The team cleared invasive on 01865 775476 or email partnerships@ good spirits while bad spirits are scared away with lots
scrub and planted new hedgerows. A bbowt.org.uk of noisy banging to encourage another fruitful year.
roaring bonfire warmed the team and See more at facebook.com/thatchamorchard
kept spirits high. The Thames Water team busy on
Greenham Common. (JESS PETERS) Heathland handover
Several corporate partners have
recently renewed their membership: After five highly successful
Johnson Matthey, Taylor & Francis Group years the My Heathland
Ltd, CLA, The Oxford Science Park, project has been handed over
Blenheim Park Estates, Sophos plc, NFU to the Thames Basin Heaths
Mutual Witney & Oxford Agency, and Partnership. Since 2011
Grundon Waste Management Ltd. Thank BBOWT took 21 youth groups
you to all our business supporters. and 300 schoolchildren
out onto Wildmoor Heath to learn about heathland
wildlife and the pressures it is under. The Partnership
will continue this work.
Travel back in time
College Lake in an old chalk
quarry is full of treasures.
Now Earth Explorers, a new
exhibition funded by a grant
from the Heritage Lottery
Fund, showcases this rich
geological and natural
heritage. Displays, including some of the many bones
and fossils found on site, offer an intriguing glimpse
into the past. bbowt.org.uk/reserves/college-lake
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