BTCV Croydon
Pond Cottage, Conduit Lane, Croydon, CR0 5RQ. Tel: 020 8726 0974, www.btcv.org.uk, croydon@btcv.org.uk
Action For Croydon’s Environment
In Croydon volunteers put in thousands of hours of conservation work each year. Improving the biodiversity and encouraging use of local open spaces. BTCV is the organisation that leads this voluntary activity supporting individuals and groups in hands on practical activity. We work in partnership with Croydon Council and the City of London who support our activities. Work typically includes creating paths to improve access, pond creation and clearance, scrub control to maintain grasslands and woodland management. There are sites varying in size and character across the Croydon, some in open country, others providing green space in urban areas. There are new skills to be learnt (e.g. fence construction, coppicing) and much enjoyment to be had; our teams look forward to seeing you! Our goal is simply to enable individuals and communities to work for conservation and environmental improvement in Croydon.

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, CR2 6AD. www.greig51.freeserve.co.uk/cnhss/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
We provide a countryside management service to tackle small scale environmental problems in a practical way, and encourage public access to the countryside. A leaflet is available.

East Surrey Badger Protection Society
P.O. Box 2774, Purley, Surrey, CR8 1WY, www.esbps.org.uk, esbps@statacom.net
We were formed to watch over the local badger population, and to respond to any activities that may be detrimental to their welfare. We give free advice and practical assistance in all problems involving badgers.
24 hour rescue service. Tel: 020 8688 9905, 01883 380321, 020 8657 3227.

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.btinternet.com/%7Efolw.croydon/
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, www.friendsofspringparkwood.co.uk
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 Pearl Durling, Tel. 020 8777 4461 , www.friendsofmillerspond.co.uk
Affilliated to the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, the group works in partnership with Croydon Council to care for this four-acre park in Shirley with its one-acre pond. The site was acquired by Croydon Council in 1934 as an open space and the pond supports several species of wildfowl. There are entrances in Shirley Way, Farm Lane and Worcester Close. The group has work mornings in the park on the last Saturday of every month except December; there are also regular indoor meetings.

RSPB Local Croydon Group

London Wildlife Trust
Skyline House, 200 Union Street, London, SE1 0LX. 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

Addington Conservation Team www.addingtonconservationteam.org.uk
We aim to protect, conserve and improve the natural environment, flora and fauna of the local woodlands (Birch and Rowdown Woods) and adjacent grassland areas to ensure these areas are maintained for the benefit and quiet enjoyment of the public.

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.