Local resources

1. CCAG (Chestnut Community Action Group)
2. Affiliated groups
   1. Arboretum Residents’ Association
   2. Worcester Canal Group
   3. Bramblewood project
   4. Worcester Baptist Church
3. Folks we support
4. Local environment and nature
   1. Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
   2. Worcester Environmental Group (The WEG)
   3. Rewilding and ecology support
   4. Action for Swifts
   5. RSPB – Worcestershire and Malvern (local group)
   6. Swift logging/swift mapper:
   7. Swallow sightings:
   8. Nature sightings around the Arbo and canal
5. History, heritage and archaeology on and around the Arboretum
6. Local company’s used locally

Primarily, this page was written for the Cut to Canal project, but these resources are available to local residents at any time.
This page lists a informaiton on local resources from projects to get involved in and the organisations better able to help in some cases. 
We also list:

• local companys used by local people
• the sort of wildlife and nature sightings around the Arbo
• History, Archaeology and Heritage around the canal (see Cut-to-Canal project)
• Canal and River Trust – updates

Read more about the Cut to Canal project, and if you would like to join in, email ccagworcester@gmail.com and to volunteer yourself or let us know about a relative or someone you know for an Oral History (Living History) recording about life around the Arboretum and the canal, complete this form and you will be contacted shortly.

These groups are only some of those we work with under the CGC (Community Group Collaborative).

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CCAG (Chestnut Community Action Group)

• Email: CCAGWorcester@gmail.com
• Website: https://CCAGWorcester.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ccagworcester
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccagworcester/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ccagworcester/ and
  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ccagworcester/

Affiliated groups

Arboretum Residents’ Association

• Website: https://CCAGWorcester.com/ARA/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1376032259186676
  (closed group – you have to apply to join) and
  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arboretumresidentsassociation/

Worcester Canal Group

• Website: http://www.worcestercanalgroup.org.uk/
• Canal and River Trust websites:
  canal and river trust volunteer group
• Canal and River Trust updates
• Canal Group contact:

  • Our mailing address is: Worcester Canal Group34 Hillery Road Worcester, Worcestershire WR5 1RF United Kingdom

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Bramblewood project

• Email: wildandrootedcic@gmail.com
• Website: https://thebramblewoodproject.org.uk/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebramblewoodproject

Worcester Baptist Church

• Website: https://www.worcesterbaptistchurch.org.uk/

Folks we support

Local environment and nature

Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

• Website: https://www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/
• Email: enquiries@worcestershirewildlifetrust.org
• Address:
  Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
  Lower Smite Farm
  Smite Hill
  Hindlip
  Worcestershire. WR3 8SZ
  
• Tel: 01905 754919

Worcester Environmental Group (The WEG)

Charity Number: 1193048

• Website: https://www.theweg.org.uk/
• Email: info@theweg.org.uk
• Address:
  c/o Paul Snookes
  11 Beeston Gardens
  Worcester. WR4 0JT
• Tel: 07742 111239

Rewilding and ecology support

• https://eco-chronicles.com/about/ – Eco Chronicles explains more.

Rewilding & Why It’s Important

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Action for Swifts

• Website: https://actionforswifts.blogspot.com/

DIY swiftbox guide: https://actionforswifts.blogspot.com/p/diy.html

RSPB – Worcestershire and Malvern (local group)

• Website: https://group.rspb.org.uk/worcester/
• Email: localgroup@worcestermalvernrspb.org.uk
• Address:
  Worcester & Malvern Local Group
  Powick Village Hall
  Powick
  Worcester
  Worcestershire
  WR2 4RT

Swift logging/swift mapper:

Part of the RSPB Swift Mapper project:

• The English Garden website https://www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/wildlife/swift-mapper/
• Swift Mapper: https://www.swiftmapper.org.uk/ – online
• Swift Mapper app for a smart phone:
  • Apple phone app: apps.apple.com/app/id1405009547
  • Google/Android: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.natural_apptitude.swift_mapper

Swallow sightings:

• Record your Swallow sighting – https://www.wwbic.org.uk/wildlife-recording/common-or-garden-sightings/record-your-swallow-sighting/

Nature sightings around the Arbo and canal

• iRecord: https://irecord.org.uk/enter-casual-record
• The Swan Food Project: With advice on feeding and caring for the swans (and passers by)

This is a list of nature that can be spotted around The Arboretum. 
Keep an eye out and let us know of more (ideally with photos).

Name	Information/description/numbers
Badger
Bats
Bees
Common buzzard
Coot
Crow
Dragon fly
Ducks
Fish	(Ask the Worcester Angling Group)
Foxes
Hedgehogs	The Infinate Monkey Cage – Hedgehogs
Heron
Kingfisher
Magpie
Mallard duck
Moorhens
Otters
Muntjac or Fallow deer?
Seagull
Swallows
Swans
Swifts
Wasps
Water vole

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History, heritage and archaeology on and around the Arboretum

Something less visible but all the same important is the heritage, history and archaeology around the Arboretum, allotments, and tow-path.

• Neolithic settlement
• Roman high status building
• Anglo-Saxon field systems
• A paleochannel
• Victorian urban developments
• Industrial age developments (canal and railway)
• Worcester at War
  • Civil war remnants
  • World War I
  • World War ii sites
• Early medieval
• Late medieval
• Tudor
• Roman quay
• Anglo-Saxon infrastructure and demarcations

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