Lucy Wheeler
@lucywheelertcv.bsky.social
West Yorkshire Operations Leader for TCV.
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Celebrating Our Local Environment Protector! 💪🌍Our Second #TCVHeroes winner for 2025 is none other than Harrison Ngunjiri — a true champion of community & nature! 🎉
Harrison has been a dedicated volunteer with #TCVLondon for over 13 years, attending an incredible 846 sessions! youtu.be/YVXKJNZH1-w
Harrison has been a dedicated volunteer with #TCVLondon for over 13 years, attending an incredible 846 sessions! youtu.be/YVXKJNZH1-w
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Celebrating Our Local Environment Protector! 💪🌍Our Second #TCVHeroes winner for 2025 is none other than Harrison Ngunjiri — a true champion of community & nature! 🎉
Harrison has been a dedicated volunteer with #TCVLondon for over 13 years, attending an incredible 846 sessions! youtu.be/YVXKJNZH1-w
Harrison has been a dedicated volunteer with #TCVLondon for over 13 years, attending an incredible 846 sessions! youtu.be/YVXKJNZH1-w
Great opportunity to do Outdoor First Aid in Leeds coming up soon, please share with anyone who might be interested Thanks
September 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Great opportunity to do Outdoor First Aid in Leeds coming up soon, please share with anyone who might be interested Thanks
Great to be listening to a panel discussion on decarbonisation powered by waste where all the delegates are women
September 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Great to be listening to a panel discussion on decarbonisation powered by waste where all the delegates are women
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This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …
Come and work for us at Hollybush! Please share with your contacts who might be interested. Thanks
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August 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Come and work for us at Hollybush! Please share with your contacts who might be interested. Thanks
www2.tcv.org.uk/cgi-bin/jobs...
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🌿Introducing TCV’s Strategy 2025–2030: Better Nature for All 🌿
TCV's new 5-year strategy focuses on connecting people together to protect and restore nature, delivering lasting benefits for both.
We believe that when nature thrives, so do people - and we’re taking bold steps to make that happen.
TCV's new 5-year strategy focuses on connecting people together to protect and restore nature, delivering lasting benefits for both.
We believe that when nature thrives, so do people - and we’re taking bold steps to make that happen.
August 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🌿Introducing TCV’s Strategy 2025–2030: Better Nature for All 🌿
TCV's new 5-year strategy focuses on connecting people together to protect and restore nature, delivering lasting benefits for both.
We believe that when nature thrives, so do people - and we’re taking bold steps to make that happen.
TCV's new 5-year strategy focuses on connecting people together to protect and restore nature, delivering lasting benefits for both.
We believe that when nature thrives, so do people - and we’re taking bold steps to make that happen.
30 by 30 also needs to be a conversation for regional Combined Authority areas too. What would this look like? What role could urban forests and National Park cities play? What part of this could be de-paving, de-contaminating? We have hardly started to wrestle with these questions
The question is how can England meet 30x30 credibly. The last govt tried to lump all National Parks & National Landscapes (AONBs) into 30x30. But eNGOs won the argument that they cannot count in their current degraded state. So we need new policies to get more land in good shape for nature.
February 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
30 by 30 also needs to be a conversation for regional Combined Authority areas too. What would this look like? What role could urban forests and National Park cities play? What part of this could be de-paving, de-contaminating? We have hardly started to wrestle with these questions
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Lots of excitement in the Hollybush Project classroom today – a visit from Charlie the therapy dog! Meanwhile it’s been a bright and frosty day in the garden. The robins were very keen to get stuck into their breakfast mealworms.
#wildlifegarden #nature #naturegarden #robin
#wildlifegarden #nature #naturegarden #robin
February 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Lots of excitement in the Hollybush Project classroom today – a visit from Charlie the therapy dog! Meanwhile it’s been a bright and frosty day in the garden. The robins were very keen to get stuck into their breakfast mealworms.
#wildlifegarden #nature #naturegarden #robin
#wildlifegarden #nature #naturegarden #robin
This is an excellent result. We were discussing today how it can be a powerful tool for building a sense of who we are as Leeds for every child growing up in the city. Our Victorian routes and shared history, regardless of whether, like me you were reckless enough to be born somewhere else
After a public consultation, protests and a public meeting held last weekend, Leeds City Council have announced they will not close Abbey House museum.
👉 Read more in the @wldispatch.bsky.social : zurl.co/JsZJs
👉 Read more in the @wldispatch.bsky.social : zurl.co/JsZJs
February 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is an excellent result. We were discussing today how it can be a powerful tool for building a sense of who we are as Leeds for every child growing up in the city. Our Victorian routes and shared history, regardless of whether, like me you were reckless enough to be born somewhere else
🌱 Are you a green or nature-based social prescribing practitioner?
Take our quick 10-minute survey to help shape workforce development guidance for this vital sector: forms.office.com/e/fmQVyFCsW3
Survey closes: 16 Feb 2025, 18:00 GMT
#GreenSocialPrescribing #MentalHealthMatters #NatureHealing
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Survey closes: 16 Feb 2025, 18:00 GMT
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Microsoft Forms
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February 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🌱 Are you a green or nature-based social prescribing practitioner?
Take our quick 10-minute survey to help shape workforce development guidance for this vital sector: forms.office.com/e/fmQVyFCsW3
Survey closes: 16 Feb 2025, 18:00 GMT
#GreenSocialPrescribing #MentalHealthMatters #NatureHealing
Take our quick 10-minute survey to help shape workforce development guidance for this vital sector: forms.office.com/e/fmQVyFCsW3
Survey closes: 16 Feb 2025, 18:00 GMT
#GreenSocialPrescribing #MentalHealthMatters #NatureHealing
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Today, we honour the victims of the darkest periods in our world’s history.
May the lessons of the past never be forgotten.
We must stand together, against prejudice and hatred, and strive for a future rooted in unity and compassion.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
May the lessons of the past never be forgotten.
We must stand together, against prejudice and hatred, and strive for a future rooted in unity and compassion.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
January 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Today, we honour the victims of the darkest periods in our world’s history.
May the lessons of the past never be forgotten.
We must stand together, against prejudice and hatred, and strive for a future rooted in unity and compassion.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
May the lessons of the past never be forgotten.
We must stand together, against prejudice and hatred, and strive for a future rooted in unity and compassion.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
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Leeds will host a section of The Baton of Hope on the 10th of September 2025!
People who may have been bereaved or affected by suicide of anybody close to them, can apply to carry the Baton of Hope. Apply by 31 March 2025: batonofhopeuk.org/become-a-bat...
People who may have been bereaved or affected by suicide of anybody close to them, can apply to carry the Baton of Hope. Apply by 31 March 2025: batonofhopeuk.org/become-a-bat...
January 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Leeds will host a section of The Baton of Hope on the 10th of September 2025!
People who may have been bereaved or affected by suicide of anybody close to them, can apply to carry the Baton of Hope. Apply by 31 March 2025: batonofhopeuk.org/become-a-bat...
People who may have been bereaved or affected by suicide of anybody close to them, can apply to carry the Baton of Hope. Apply by 31 March 2025: batonofhopeuk.org/become-a-bat...
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Great news as Bristol City Council is to officially recognise Care Experienced as a Protected Characteristic 🎉.
The recommendation was unanimously approved at Full Council this week.
More info:
news.bristol.gov.uk/press-releas...
The recommendation was unanimously approved at Full Council this week.
More info:
news.bristol.gov.uk/press-releas...
Bristol City Council to officially recognise Care Experienced as a Protected Characteristic
news.bristol.gov.uk
January 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Great news as Bristol City Council is to officially recognise Care Experienced as a Protected Characteristic 🎉.
The recommendation was unanimously approved at Full Council this week.
More info:
news.bristol.gov.uk/press-releas...
The recommendation was unanimously approved at Full Council this week.
More info:
news.bristol.gov.uk/press-releas...
Good analysis that actually allows for nuance - rarer than a Great Crested Newt
greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/01/14/c...
greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/01/14/c...
Can the Nature Restoration Fund really restore nature?
This post is by Richard Benwell, chief executive of Wildlife and Countryside Link. In his excellent blog, ‘We can make space for nature and people’, Tony Juniper is right that the current planning …
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January 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Good analysis that actually allows for nuance - rarer than a Great Crested Newt
greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/01/14/c...
greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/01/14/c...
This will cheer up a dark evening! Thanks @johnpleeds.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I was in despair about the environmental crisis. Then I volunteered to clean up my local park
‘Instead of sobbing in front of your computer screen,’ my counsellor said, ‘go out and do something’
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January 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This will cheer up a dark evening! Thanks @johnpleeds.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
This encapsulates where my thinking is now after more than thirty years working across nature conservation and environmental education. This is the shift we need to make, we are so not there yet. Bear with it's academic framing, the message is spot on 🌍
findingnature.org.uk/2025/01/13/t...
findingnature.org.uk/2025/01/13/t...
The Unseen Crises of Human-Nature Connection
Too often, we are oblivious to interconnectedness and our relationship with nature. Over the last three years, me and over 100 leading experts from over 40 countries have been working on changes ne…
findingnature.org.uk
January 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This encapsulates where my thinking is now after more than thirty years working across nature conservation and environmental education. This is the shift we need to make, we are so not there yet. Bear with it's academic framing, the message is spot on 🌍
findingnature.org.uk/2025/01/13/t...
findingnature.org.uk/2025/01/13/t...
Wonderful weekend for Bradford to start their year as City of Culture, a genuine burst of light in the darkness
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Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture on LinkedIn: RISE: Highlights | 21 comments
🙏 Thank you so much to every single one of you who came to City park over the last two nights for RISE, the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture opening… | 21 comments on LinkedIn
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January 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Wonderful weekend for Bradford to start their year as City of Culture, a genuine burst of light in the darkness
www.linkedin.com/posts/bradfo...
www.linkedin.com/posts/bradfo...
Hopefully 2025 can be the year where people stop seeing things in microcosm and mainstream thinking landscape scale, connectivity and permeability, for wildlife as well as water www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
National Trust to restore nature across area bigger than Greater London
Charity reveals plans to create 250,000 hectares of nature-rich landscape as it marks 130th anniversary
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Hopefully 2025 can be the year where people stop seeing things in microcosm and mainstream thinking landscape scale, connectivity and permeability, for wildlife as well as water www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Timely and urgent reminder of the fundamental complexity and inter-dependencies of connections within habitats that we might think we understand, and therefore the risks baked into that assumption
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How do you solve a problem like Willow Tit?
With news of yet another county extinction in Warwickshire, things are looking bleak for Britain's second fastest declining bird (Turtle Dove takes the unwanted crown of No 1). Even more worryingly, f...
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January 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Timely and urgent reminder of the fundamental complexity and inter-dependencies of connections within habitats that we might think we understand, and therefore the risks baked into that assumption
www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-do...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-do...
Here in snowy Yorkshire at @tcvhollybush.bsky.social we are busy supporting walking and cycling in our role as an Active Travel Hub @westyorkshireca.bsky.social @mayorofwy.bsky.social nehttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/dec/30/anti-cycling-stories-bad-health-chris-boardman-active-travel
Anti-cycling stories are bad for the UK’s health, says Chris Boardman
Racing champion turned active travel advocate criticises parts of the media for safety scaremongering
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Here in snowy Yorkshire at @tcvhollybush.bsky.social we are busy supporting walking and cycling in our role as an Active Travel Hub @westyorkshireca.bsky.social @mayorofwy.bsky.social nehttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/dec/30/anti-cycling-stories-bad-health-chris-boardman-active-travel
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what this chart actually represents is the triumph of petrostates and the vested interests in the status quo over the well-being of the rest of humanity
January 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
what this chart actually represents is the triumph of petrostates and the vested interests in the status quo over the well-being of the rest of humanity
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Just a reminder that our next weekend event is Potato Day on 16th February. Last year the seed swap was a roaring success, so if you're sorting your seed boxes over the next couple of weeks, do put aside anything you don't need to swap for something new to you. #potatoday #seedswap #growyourown
January 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Just a reminder that our next weekend event is Potato Day on 16th February. Last year the seed swap was a roaring success, so if you're sorting your seed boxes over the next couple of weeks, do put aside anything you don't need to swap for something new to you. #potatoday #seedswap #growyourown
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Worth knowing about if you feed birds…….
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
RSPB stops selling flat bird feeders owing to deadly finch disease
Feeding birds from flat surfaces such as tables could be contributing to spread of finch trichomonosis, says charity
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Worth knowing about if you feed birds…….
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fully-funded PhD on "Meeting commitments to biodiversity conservation: developing a framework for predicting and monitoring the potential contributions of nature markets", with the OEP & @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@netgain.bsky.social programme
Deadline 31 Jan
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@netgain.bsky.social programme
Deadline 31 Jan
January 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Fully-funded PhD on "Meeting commitments to biodiversity conservation: developing a framework for predicting and monitoring the potential contributions of nature markets", with the OEP & @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@netgain.bsky.social programme
Deadline 31 Jan
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
@netgain.bsky.social programme
Deadline 31 Jan
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Abysmal news for the River Wye—already close to ecological death from intensive poultry production—& other catchments.
Labour came to power promising to heal Britain’s river network; today the Env Sec singles out chicken producers & promises laxer regulation.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labour came to power promising to heal Britain’s river network; today the Env Sec singles out chicken producers & promises laxer regulation.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labour’s agriculture plans will increase chicken waste in rivers, say campaigners
Steve Reed says planning rules ‘have got in the way’ of farmers and apologises for ‘shock’ of inheritance tax change
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Abysmal news for the River Wye—already close to ecological death from intensive poultry production—& other catchments.
Labour came to power promising to heal Britain’s river network; today the Env Sec singles out chicken producers & promises laxer regulation.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labour came to power promising to heal Britain’s river network; today the Env Sec singles out chicken producers & promises laxer regulation.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...