Our nature reserves, sheep, kids and wildlife

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Each week a £1 ticket could win you £25,000
It's certain that it will give 50p to fund Noakes Grove
Please visit our page on the Essex lottery website to find out more and buy your tickets |
Number of
matches |
Prize |
Odds |
6 |
£25,000 |
1,000,000:1 |
5 |
£2,000 |
55,556:1 |
4 |
£250 |
5,556:1 |
3 |
£25 |
556:1 |
2 |
3 extra tickets |
56:1 |
ANY |
50p to fund Noakes Grove |
Certainty |
Recently one of our supporters won £250 and 3 others have won smaller prizes. Next week it could be you and might be £25,000 |
Buy some shares
It is the shareholders of Organic Countryside CIC who have provided the funds to buy Noakes Grove. Shareholders get no dividends or other financial benefits but they do own and direct the company. Purchase of a minimum of £100 in shares gives life membership of the company.
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Walden Countryside - who we are
We are a not-for-profit community interest company. The land at Noakes Grove is owned by Organic Countryside CIC [that's Walen Countryside's official name]
Our main activities centre around our nature reserves but we are not only interested in preserving their wildlife. We are trying to make them more like the Walden Countryside of a century ago:
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Producing local food without the use of pesticides and artificial fertilisers
We are not just about creating and managing nature reserves:
Local Wildlife Sites
See full details of the sites in your parish.
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Current Projects:
Opening Kings Field to the public
We have been awarded a grant by Affinity Water for this project. Here's what we want to do as soon as we are able to finish work when lockdown ends:
- Public access, with some permissive paths, welcoming signs and guide leaflets at the gate. This is no available subject to the current lockdown restriction to groups from one household only
- The stream through the middle of the reserve is one of its most important features. We plan to instal a footbridge over it for visitors to use.
- The stream banks are deep-sided so it is difficult to get near the stream or even see it. We plan to dig out part of the bank to make a wider stream valley with more gently sloping banks. The digging work will also create a pool beside the stream but not create a dam hindering water flow and passage by fish.
- We want to create a children's area where tprganised groups can enjoy the reserve and learn about its wildlife
Read more about Kings Field
Limefield Pit Nature Reserve - Restoration Project
Limefield Pit is an old chalk quarry that has been an Essex Widllife Trust reserve for over 20 yers: the only nature reserve within the Saffron Walden Town boundary. It is not open to the public at present and has lost much of its wildflower diversity.
Walden Countryside and the Essex Wildlife Trust wish to see the area managed locally and it is likely that we will take over the management of the reserve in the near future.
Read more about the Limefield Pit project
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Helping Walden Countryside
We are a small organisation totally dependent on volunteers to do all the administrative and physical work and to raise the funds we need each year,
There are several ways you can help us financially: which one would sut you? |
Become a "Friend of Walden Countryside"
by making a donation online (you choose how much and how often but we hope you will be able to give about £10 a year). "Friends" get our monthly newsletetr via email. For more details and to donate click "Friend"
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Help us at no cost to you:
Where do you shop online?
The big names (Amazon, eBay, M & S, John Lewis) or any one of over 4000 other online merchants have all agreed to give us a small percentage of anything you spend with them. All you have to do is register with Easyfundraising.
Just browse online as you normally would and Easyfundraising will tell you when you are visiting a website that has agreed to give donations to Organic Countryside.
PLEASE visit our Easyfundraising page and sign up. It costs you nothing and will be a huge help to us.
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Copyright 2020
Organic Countryside Community Interest Company
Trading as Walden Countryside
Company number 06794848 - registered
in England
VAT No: 947 3003 317
Updated 4 November 2020 |
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