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Volunteers week is 2013 June 1st-7th., was a great success for Dawn Chorus and Juno Enterprise. Both organisations joined up with many friends; we look forward to cooperating with them throughout the?year. Updates on the work of Dawn Chorus & Juno Enterprise were sent out, in June,?to every county and city third sector infrastructure organisation in the East Midlands. Messages on the vital work that our volunteers carry out?in the current economic climate, were directly deliverd to 138,805 individuals in early July.
(above: blackthorn at?Lowdham, picture taken May 2013)
The Summer Solstice sees great things happening in the Dawn Chorus organic test garden, including globe artichokes and other heritage vegetable seedlings ready to be delivered to a preschool children?s educational garden. (Below sunshine dahlia flower)
News:
Last year communications was a theme at Dawn Chorus.
Since being appointed a Royal Society of Arts ?Digital Champion?, our CEO Norma Saunders, a Fellow of the Society, has made a significant contributions on behalf of Dawn Chorus, within target online communities, on natural and cultural heritage, human and animal well-being, community education and third sector issues. We look forward to reporting positive news from this exciting project.
Dawn Chorus has 330 partners, some have been with us since 1985 but two of our new key partners: EWKET, who works with orphans in Ethiopia said that they were delighted that Dawn Chorus is helping the project & offering governance advice and planning joint projects, they launched a new website in October and during December our partners in Malawi: Nyasa Food Forest Garden designed a new website. Look out for the links & our mutual news swaps. Patrick CEO at the Nyasa project, said: ?we want to help women into active learning about organic food growing for plant-based diet and health, to boost food security. biodiversity and genetic diversity in our community?; Dawn Chorus is proud to have them as partners.
(Pictured below: Patrick with new plot acquired for?Nyasa Food Forest Garden)
We are delighted that One East Midlands has chosen Dawn Chorus as the subject for a recent Case Study and target for promotion. The Case Study can be viewed on the One East Midlands website. Bricks and Bread, the sustainable hub project based in London, chose Dawn Chorus as ?hub member of the day? during December: ?in recognition of (our) hard work and support?, we feature on the new brealine website. In Jan 2013, mutual links were set up with BRAVE the Cornish badger group. Please follow the links to support our partners.
Two issues of concern to Dawn Chorus that grabbed the headlines this year: the positive news that the badger cull has been postponed thanks to the huge campaign on behalf of the badgers; we have been proud to have played a modest part in this achievment?and secondly the terrible news that the bio-security threat to our Ash trees is becoming more evident. This will have grave consequences for the East Midlands where Ash trees are so characteristic, especially in the ?Mercian mud-woods?. Dawn Chorus is engaged within a number of forums and partnerships that are considering the best action to take to assist in the situation. How now do we ?maintain & improve by management, existing mixed ash dominated woodland???(Notts. BAP)
This year, Dawn Chorus campaign information has been networked to 71,197 individuals, through face to face contact at conferences & with individuals & via social networking. Our consultations with stakeholders have received positive feedback from 420 individuals on specific issues & feedback from over 910 individuals on general issues.
We have campaigned to raise awareness of seasonal risks to hedgehogs: before lighting, please check bonfires carefully to prevent sleeping hedgehogs from being burned alive. try to move the pile to re-site it before lighting or push broom handles into the base of the wood heap to lift it & shine a torch in to look & listen. We are also asking people to put out water & cat food (not bread & milk as it can kill them) to help them to fatten up prior to hibernation. Dawn Chorus can now report that the hedgehog hibernation quarters built by our volunteers, now all have hedgehogs in residence.
What a difference volunteers can make! For example, Dawn Chorus volunteers have released birds that have recovered from treatment and rehabilitation, including garden birds that have been attacked by cats; our volunteer Andrew said: ?it is great to see them flying high above the trees, healthy and free?. So a big thank you to our volunteers for helping to make this year a huge success! Our supporter & volunteer wildlife photographer Ellie sent us the picture below of a cute little fox; Ellie said: ?Nothing like a bit of urban wildlife?.
What We Do:
?Communities learning, caring for all life and celebrating shared heritage?
Since 1985 we have championed creative social and environmental innovation, to deliver community education for you, via our programmes:
- Community learning
- Social enterprise
- Programme management with infrastructure support
- Well-being programmes
- Volunteering
- Sustainability, climate change and eco-philosophy initiatives
- International co-operation in our communities
- Wildlife and animal welfare
- Arts and cultural heritage
- Landscape and natural heritage
Dawn Chorus Educational Initiative is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company, endeavouring to work to specified ethical guidelines.
Your Community:
Our stakeholders are our local communities. Our areas of benefit are Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire, S. Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. We also foster international co-operation in our communities, sharing best practice and rolling out resources to some of the poorest communities in the world.
Co-operation and Collaboration:
We build and lead partnerships, seeking funding to deliver and manage programmes with integral volunteer and infrastructure support. Partnerships are the key to our work. Be involved in delivering excellent benefits with us.
Links to the websites of our key partners are displayed in the Blogroll on the right, please click on the links.
Help us to:
? Facilitate learning
? Foster opportunities for increased welfare, well-being, quality of life, happiness and enjoyment
? Foster equity, equality and ethical communities
? Contribute to social, environmental and economic welfare and benefits for our society
? Enable access to cultural heritage and natural heritage experience
? Increase an understanding that human, animal and environmental well-being are integrated and can be promoted by responsible, compassionate and sustainable lifestyles
Support us:
Sponsor: a resource or event, large or small and receive a free environmental check list
Buy: our goods and resources
Volunteer: to raise funds. Can you sew, take wildlife photographs or organise a bake sale? Tell us your ideas
Buy our Services: ask us how we can deliver learning programmes for your users, staff or at an event
Contact us: info@dawnchoruseducationalinitiative.org.uk
Phone: 07758847089. Follow us: on Face book, Twitter and LinkedIn
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