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Valley of Visions Events.
Walks and Talks Valley
of Visions Landscape Partnership Scheme is running a host of fantastic free
wildlife and heritage discovery events, walks and talks this summer throughout
the Medway Gap. Examples include water vole discovery days, monitoring
dormouse boxes, heritage walks around Snodland and Cuxton and interactive
talks on Palaeolithic and Neolithic heritage. Pick up or download our Events,
Walks and Talks booklet for further details. Photography
Competition Your
River offers a fantastic opportunity for people to explore and capture the beauty
and distinctive landscapes of the Medway Valley through photographs. The
competition will run until the end of September with fantastic prizes offered for winning entries including a photo shoot with a professional photographer.
Your River A photographic competition along the Medway Valley Capture the beauty of the Medway Valley - the River Medway and its adjacent landscape
Fantastic Prizes including a live photo shoot and coaching session with Manu Palomeque, Chief Photographer for Kent Life magazine Closing date : 30th. September 2008 Entries can be submitted by email or post MVCP, 3 Lock Cottages, Lock Lane, Sandling, Maidstone, ME14 3AU
Each entry must have an accompanying entry form - download from
Up yo five entries per person can be submitted
For further information contact 01634 242826 Medway
Memories Medway
Memories is an exciting oral history project looking to collate people's memories
of the Medway Gap with an emphasis on industrial heritage. If you or anyone
you know would like to share their memories, stories or photographs with
us or help collect and record memories then we would like to hear from them. Free
training To
help conserve and maintain the heritage, landscapes and wildlife of the Medway
Gap in the long term, Valley of Visions is offering free training to local people
on subjects ranging from reed bed management and practical hand tool use
to local geology and woodland archaeology. Please contact us to find out more about training events that we are running.
Valley
of Visions Training courses Summer
2008 Valley
of Visions is offering a range of free training courses- Many
of which are happening this Summer Grazing
animals management and stock checkers Biological
monitoring and recording Field
and hedgerow survey techniques Scrub
management Chalk
habitat management Arable
weed identification Identifying
chalk grassland species Marshland
ecology and management incorporating ditch and stream management Reed
bed management Grassland
management for wildlife Brownfield
to Greenfield -disused industrial sites as havens for wildlife Local
history/oral history Medway's
customs and traditions Introduction
to local archaeology If you are interested in any of the above courses, please contact us on
01634 242826 or email mail@vov.kentdowns.org.uk Further
details on our website www.valleyofvisions.org.uk Volunteering
opportunities Valley
of Visions has a range of volunteering opportunities that local people can get
involved in over the next three years, including practical conservation with local
organisations, community archaeology, wildlife monitoring and many others. |
