BTCV Croydon
Pond Cottage, Conduit Lane, Croydon, CR0 5RQ. Tel: 020 8726 0974, www.btcv.org.uk
BTCV, the UK’s largest conservation charity, offers training and volunteering opportunities across the country. Croydon Council provides the core funding for BTCV to run the ACE (Action for Croydon’s Environment) Team of volunteers, which go out every Wednesday and Thursday to carry out a large variety of conservation projects ranging from hedgelaying and coppicing to charcoal burning. BTCV also offers Volunteer Officer positions and NVQ training to gain valuable work experience for future employment in the environmental sector.

Croydon Society
Geoffrey Myers, 56 Northampton Road, Croydon, CR0 7HT. www.croydonsociety.org.uk
Amenity Society affiliated to the Civic Trust, promoting higher standards of civic design in buildings, transport, parks and open spaces. Society arranges talks, walks and visits.

Croydon Conservation Volunteers
132 Purley Oaks Road, South Croydon.
The group meets on different Sundays each month to work on various sites in Croydon, mostly on City of London sites. They carry out a wide variety of work, ranging from woodland work, bog garden management, hedge laying, access work, to improving chalk grassland and heathland sites.

Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society
General Secretary, 96a Brighton Road, South Croydon, CR26AD. www.greig51.freeserve.co.uk/cnhs s/index.htm
The Society offers a varied programme of walks and talks on subjects such as local history, botany and ornithology.

Downlands Countryside Management Project

East Surrey Badger Protection Society

Friends of Foxley
12 Langham Dene, Purley, CR8. chrispm.parker@hotmail.co.uk
Foxley Wood and Sherwood Oaks Field Local Nature Reserve are within reach of Purley and Kenley railway stations. Bus 434 passes near it on Monday to Saturday and 407 (alight at Purley or Kenley) all week. The Friends Group manages the woodland (ancient and secondary) and field in partnership with Croydon Council and meets every 2nd Sunday to carry out nature conservation work. There is a nature trail and a guide and information booklet for this is available.

Friends of King’s Wood
16 Ashdown Gardens, Sanderstead, CR2 9DA. jtct@blueyonder.co.uk
The Group meets every Tuesday morning to look after the 65 hectares of ancient oak woodland, known for its splendid bluebell display. Much work has been done to eradicate invasive species such as laurel and they have reintroduced a coppice programme for hazel. The group organises guided walks and talks for the public, carries out wildlife surveys and maintains a Nature Trail.

Friends of Littleheath Woods
53 Queenhill Road, Selsdon, CR2 8DW. Ian.leggatt@btinternet.com, www.folw.fsnet.co.uk
The group wrote the management plan for the site and implements it through their active volunteer group, which meets every Tuesday morning and every 2 nd Sunday of each month. Work ranges from coppicing, path restoration, eradicating invasive species to reinstating an old pond.

Friends of Spring Park Wood
46 Kent Road, West Wickham, Kent, BR4 0JP.
A small, 7 acre, remnant of the once huge Spring Park Wood is hidden between houses. The Friends group is carrying out practical woodland management, using traditional skills like coppicing, layering and snedding to bring back the health and biodiversity of this oasis.

Friends of Miller’s Pond
Chairman: Alec Stroud, Tel. 020 8777 6187

Friends of South Norwood Country Park

Grangewood and Whitehorse Residents Association

London Wildlife Trust
Skyline House, 200 Union Street, London, SE1 0LW. www.wildlondon.org.uk, enquiries@wildlondon.org.uk
London Wildlife Trust is one of 47 Wildlife Trusts which form a nationwide network of local nature conservation charities.

Metropolitan Public Gardens Association

North Croydon Landwatch
6 Fieldpark Gardens, off Cheston Avenue, Shirley, Croydon, CR0 8ET.
The Group looks after Beulah Hill Pond, a small, secluded area next to a busy road. The pond is closed to the public but the team of volunteers meet every Saturday morning to maintain the site and improve it for wildlife.

South Norwood Residents Association

Surrey Wildlife Trust
School Lane, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, GU24 0JN. info@swt.co.uk, www.surreywildlifetrust.org, Croydon contact: malcolmjennings@btinternet.com
The Trust works to conserve the countryside and wildlife in Surrey, but also look after a nature reserve in Croydon, Dollypers Hill, on the Kenley/Coulsdon border. It takes an interest in all aspects of nature conservation throughout Croydon . A leaflet is available for Dollypers Hill Nature Reserve.