Author: newtcharity

26th August, 11am – 2pm Please join Newbury Environmental & Wildlife Team (NEWT) and Thames Water at our lunch time drop-in event on Tuesday 26th August to have a casual chat about the future of Northcroft Meadows and how it will be managed to benefit wildlife and the local community. You will find us at the […]

We have some more videos to share with you. We have 2 pairs of otters seconds apart, so we must have at least 4 living on site. They seem to be quite a close family unit. Much as we’d love for us to start naming them, we can’t tell them apart! Then we have a […]

We had some unexpected fun last week, where a large breach formed on the bank of the river kennet. Not on our land, but just upstream of where we live. It quite suddenly became really big and was growing exponentially more quickly at a worrying rate. It was starting to threaten our homes, so we […]

Our wetland is incredibly difficult to access, there are parts that we have never seen ourselves. Glimpsing through the trees we could see a lake, but it is so overgrown that it is hard to see its entirety from any where. If anyone else is curious what’s in there, we have made this virtual tour […]

Undoubtedly our most popular residents, that causes the most excitement for people. We have been monitoring the otters living at Northcroft Meadows for a few years now. Many thanks to Claire Cookson for capturing these videos for us, so we can share them with you all. Whilst it is lovely that they are here, we […]

Hedges are one of the simplest, easiest and most cost effective ways of making a big difference to our most threatened species. Not only do they provide a fantastic habitat for lots of different species, they also sequester CO2 very effectively per square metre of land. We have several miles of hedge to plant at […]

January Work Party, Saturday 25th… We are going to run a volunteer work party on Saturday January 25th. This will be to cut a path through the southern meadow down to the lakes and then back across Moor lane back through the eastern meadow to link up to our existing paths. That then makes a […]

I thought it would be a nice idea to revisit some of our earlier projects and give an update on their progress. Very early on in NEWT’s existence, about 4 years ago, we did two hedge laying projects. At that time we had been on a coppicing and hedge-laying course and had started replacing our […]

Newbury & Thatcham Green Gym are a fantastic organisation with a great back story for the Green Gym movement as a whole. They do conservation work every Monday morning in nature reserves and public wildlife places in the local area. They are a lovely bunch of people and very enthusiastic hard workers. They came down […]