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June 2005

Thursday, 30 June 2005

Volunteer with children at the Osprey Centre, Loch Garten, Scotland

RSPB Family Fun Day

Looking for something to do with the family this weekend?

From 1100 until 1600 on Sunday 3rd July the RSPB is organising a family fun day with activities around Keynes Country Park. Aimed at the whole family and exploring the wildlife wonders at this time of the year, activities will include games, crafts, pond dipping and much more including guided walks

Activities are free but the normal entrance charges to Keynes Country Park apply.

Keynes Country Park is within the Cotswold Water Park and is signed from the spine road near Somerford Keynes.

Friday, 17 June 2005

Young man looking through binoculars

New Website for North Wiltshire RSPB Group

After many years using web services provided by the Evening Advertiser, the North Wiltshire RSPB Group are pleased to be associated with a pilot scheme being run in order to bring local group web pages within the main RSPB Website.

We are pleased to welcome new and previous visitors to this site.

Our new season of indoor illustrated talks will start again on Tuesday 6 September 2005. This site will continue to be developed over the next few weeks to give information on those meetings, our walks and all our events designed to bring the enjoyment of birds and birdwatching to the people of Swindon and North Wiltshire.

Finally our thanks must go to the Evening Advertiser and Communigate which has hosted our local website for several years. Our original website will remain open for a short time in order to assist in redirecting visitors to these new pages.

Friday, 17 June 2005

Come and Get Involved

The North Wiltshire RSPB Local Group holds both evening meetings and field trips to which anyone is invited.

Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month between September and June when a guest speaker gives a slide-show and talk.

Our meetings take place at the Jennings Street Community Centre in Even Swindon. Jennings Street is off Rodbourne Road and near the Designer Outlet. There is a good free car park at the Community Centre.

All meetings commence at 7.45pm with the door open at around 7.30pm. These meetings normally consist of an illustrated talk with plenty of time for a coffee and a chat.

The cost of admission is: £2.00 for members and £2.50 for non - members. Accompanied children over the age of 7 are welcome and are admitted free.

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 6 September 2005

Friday, 17 June 2005

Adult and children with book and binoculars birdwatching

Community Group Talks

Did you know that the RSPB Local Group is able to provide speakers for local community groups.

If you feel your group, school etc would benefit from such a talk please contact us. We would seek a donation of £20.00 towards local RSPB Group funds.

Our community talks organiser is- Brian Timbrell, 21 Gardner House, Trinity Close, Swindon, SN3 2EE and he can be contacted on Tel: 01793 132538