Walk to School Week Walk to Horsforth Climate Action are joining forces with the Horsforth Primary Schools to celebrate Walk to School Week, 19th-23rd May 2025. We aim to reduce the number of short car journeys, reduce air pollution and heighten awareness of...
What is Nature Recovery and why is it needed? The world is facing twin climate and biodiversity emergencies, which are inextricably linked. Nature is in serious decline internationally and nationally, with the UK being one of the most nature depleted countries in the...
Whatever the size of your outdoor space, you can help nature by making some additions to your garden or changing the way you look after your space. 17 percent of Horsforth is made up of private gardens, so we can all make positive changes to improve things for the...
There have been two areas in Horsforth where the HCA Nature group have worked with the Climate Energy and Green Spaces dept. of Leeds City Council to develop suburban meadow-like areas to increase biodiversity: these are Cragg Hill Recreation ground and Drury Field....
Wildflower meadows are beautiful, nature-rich habitats that once featured across much of the UK. From late spring, meadow flowers such as clovers, ox-eye daisies, self heal, bird’s foot trefoil, hawkweed, knapweeds and many others, attract insects, birds and mammals,...
We are mapping those public green space sites where action is being taken to help nature. These initiatives vary from planting trees, relaxed mowing, establishing more diverse flower communities for pollinators and creating ponds. Using the map The map can be opened...
