Events

Reculver Visitor Centre and Country Park

The Geology of Reculver Country Park

20 Jun 2025, 10:30am - 4pm
Reculver Country Park, Ocean View car park, Bishopstone Glen, Herne Bay, Kent, CT6 6QF

Discover the geological materials used in buildings and shore defences around Reculver and examine a classic coastal cliff section.

Normal fee: £37.50 per person per day. Concessionary fee: Kent Wildlife Trust volunteers, senior citizens, unemployed and students £5 off.
A vegetable garden with a greenhouse

Partially accessible

Open Farm Garden Safari in Shadoxhurst

22 Jun 2025, 11am - 4pm
Green Farm, Church Lane, Shadoxhurst, Ashford, TN26 1LT

A chance to visit two nature-friendly farm gardens and their neighbouring land.

£5
Shoresearch Volunteers

Intertidal Investigations

22 Jun 2025, 1:30 - 6:45pm
The Seaside Museum Herne Bay, 12 William St, Herne Bay CT6 5EJ

Learn how to identify marine plants and animals and then carry out an intertidal survey

Standard fee: £37.50 per person per day. Concessionary fee: Kent Wildlife Trust volunteers, senior citizens, unemployed and students £5 off.
© Ian Rickards

Plant Identification in the Field

23 Jun 2025, 10am - 27 Jun 2025, 4pm
University of Kent, Canterbury Campus, Canterbury CT2 7NB

Five days learning to identify and record wild plants in nature reserves in Kent.

The cost for this five-day course is £215 per person.
Golden-ringed Dragonfly
Paul Blair

An introduction to dragonflies and damselflies

24 Jun 2025, 10am - 4pm
Shorne Woods Country Park, Brewers Rd, Shorne, Gravesend DA12 3H

Learn about the life cycles and habitats of dragonflies and aids to identification. Then participate in a field study of adult dragonflies.

Standard fee: £37.50 per person per day. Concessionary fee: Kent Wildlife Trust volunteers, senior citizens, unemployed and students £5 off.

An Introduction to Sedges and Rushes

28 Jun 2025, 10am - 4pm
Tyland Barn Nature Park & Gardens Chatham Rd Sandling Maidstone ME14 3BD

Learn more about the sedges and rushes - plant species which are found in many of our wilder, unimproved habitats but are often unfairly dismissed or overlooked.

Standard fee: £37.50 per person per day. Concessionary fee: Kent Wildlife Trust volunteers, senior citizens, unemployed and students £5 off.
The bison in Wolf Wood
The bison in Wolf Wood - by Donovan Wright, Bison Ranger

Not accessible

Bison Ranger Experiences: A Morning at West Blean

28 Jun 2025, 10am - 2pm
Thornden Wood Road. Canterbury Kent CT6 7NZ

Spend a morning with one of the Bison Rangers, discovering all the latest updates and joining them to try tracking the Wilder Blean herd.

£65
A meadow of oxeye daisies at Langdon

Wildflower Identification for Intermediates

5 Jul 2025, 9:30am - 6 Jul 2025, 5pm
Tyland Barn Nature Park & Gardens Chatham Rd Sandling Maidstone ME14 3BD

Gain greater confidence at identifying flowering plants using botanical keys and improve you knowledge of plant classification and botanical terms.

Normal fee: £75 per person for this two-day course. Concessionary fee: Kent Wildlife Trust volunteers, senior citizens, unemployed and students £10 off.