Wild Marlow will be attending the first Marlow Schools Eco Conference, an interactive and educational day that will be attended by students from the thirteen schools in Marlow and the surrounding areas. The event is organised in partnership with Sustainable Marlow, Marlow Town Council’s environmental initiative.

If you or your child are attending, pop over to our stand to learn about Marlow’s wildlife and to make a pledge to help it.

The Wild Marlow Gardens Campaign, launched in April 2020, aims to encourage residents in Marlow and the surrounding villages to help welcome wildlife into their gardens. Domestic gardens, no matter what size, are mini nature reserves and provide vital corridors for wildlife to thrive. There are an estimated 24 million gardens in the UK so how they are cared for can make a huge difference. Our gardens form a vast living landscape.

Gardening for wildlife doesn’t necessarily mean leaving it to grow into a jungle, but there are many small things you can do to make your garden accessible to all. The Wild Marlow Gardens Campaign focuses on 4 key areas:
Garden management – e.g. chemical free, highways, composting
Wildlife food features – e.g. nectar rich planting, fruits and berries, feeders, herbs
Wildlife shelters – e.g. boxes, log piles, bug hotels, long grass
Water features – e.g. ponds, bogs, water butts

By making small changes in your garden you will be helping to improve the health and biodiversity of our local area.
With the campaign, Wild Marlow will award gold, silver and bronze award certificates to those who satisfy three different levels of criteria.
The gold certificate holders, if also Wild Marlow Members, will be eligible to purchase a Wild Marlow Blue Heart for just £10, to display in their garden or wildlife area. The Wild Marlow Gardens Campaign supports the national BLUE campaign, which has been running since 2014, promoting the rewilding of gardens and other open spaces across the UK.

Wild Marlow will be posting information on what you can do via our website, Facebook Page and Facebook Group.

To take part in the campaign, download the guidance forms and submission sheet on our website www.wildmarlow.org.uk. Make the required changes in your garden and submit the form to us online or via email. Entry is free to all and we encourage everyone to take part. If you have queries or need advice, please do email us contact@wildmarlow.org.uk.

Away from domestic gardens, Wild Marlow hopes to be able to offer larger Wild Marlow blue hearts for display in recognition of wildlife friendly environments and practices in other open spaces such as parks, road verges, churchyards, school grounds and commercial properties.

An evening of presentations and talks to launch our Wild Marlow Gardens Campaign, which aims to encourage everyone to welcome wildlife in their gardens. 

There will be talks from Marlow Allottment Assoc, High Wycombe Bee Keeping Assoc, Marlow Hedgehog Hub, Berks Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust & Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre. Subjects covered in the talks will be planting for pollenators, companion planting, bees, hedgehogs, ponds, earthworms, amphibians, soils. 

There will also be stands from these and other local organisations for visitors to browse during breaks between talks: East Berks RSPB, Bubmlebees, Swift Conservation, ReLeaf Marlow, Henley Toad Patrol, Butterfly Conservation, Bisham Nest Box Group.

This event is free for Members.

Refreshments available.

Wild Marlow will be at the TTM Marlow Market, The Causeway, Marlow High Street

Come along and see us to find out more about Wild Marlow and what we do.

Come along to a fun pub quiz, with some wildlife themed rounds, to help raise funds for Wild Marlow.

Teams of 4-6 people, so bring a whole team or join others on the night. 

There will also be a raffle.

Whether you are currently #TeamMoth, #TeamButterfly or undecided, come along to our evening of fascinating talks by our local experts Les Finch and Martin Robinson who will try to persuade you one way or the other. This promises to be an informative and entertaining debate discussing the many interesting facts, similarities and differences between the two species.

Refreshments available to purchase at the bar

An evening event to learn more about some of our wonderful wildlife that comes out after dark. There will be a guided walk and talk to discover the fascinating facts about our protected native Bats, as well as a chance to see up close some very underrated but stunning Moths attracted to a moth trap. The experts will be on hand to help with ID, answer your questions and explain the importance of these nocturnal creatures. More details to come.

A guided walk in Homefield Wood Nature Reserve, a SSSI site, to look for the extremely rare Military Orchid that can be found in Marlow. We may also be lucky enough to see some other species of wild orchids. More details to follow.

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The Wild Marlow Steering Group meets regularly to discuss upcoming and potential future events & competitions, finance & governance, fundraising, advice requests, etc. If you would like to be involved with Wild Marlow, or have any projects you wish us to be involved with, please do get in touch Contact@wildmarlow.org.uk