OUR PROJECTS

Nature in Harmony is an ongoing wildlife survey and community engagement project based in Harmony Woods and the wider Diamond Wood.

Established in 2020 and led by our Ecology Intern each year, the aim of the project is to monitor ‘what’s living in the woods’, informing future conservation management decisions, and to educate and inspire the local community in concepts of woodland and grassland ecology, species identification, and field survey techniques. 

The programme has three main aspects:

1. annual biodiversity surveying between April and September (wildflowers, grasses, birds, butterflies, pollinators)

2. public citizen science events over the spring and summer: ‘Explore the Wild’

3. a programme of monthly weekend youth activities - resuming September 2026

We are extremely grateful to our outgoing 2025 Ecology Intern, Hebe Everington, and thank her for all her hard work over the past year. You can read the 2025 Nature In Harmony report here.

We are equally delighted to welcome our 2026 Ecology Intern, Kanchi Mehta. Kanchi will start the new season’s surveying in April. Kanchi will be taking on an extended internship, which will also cover environmental education and connecting children to nature in practical and engaging ways.

If you are able to offer any expert ecological or environmental education guidance, such as species ID sessions, assistance with surveying or leading nature activities, to support our intern or the charity as a whole, we would love to hear from you. Please get in touch here.

READ the Nature in harmony reports [below]

Registered with Dr Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots ‘Mission Possible’ UK programme and working closely with UNEP Plant for the Planet, our youth programmes cater for ages 8+.

We are currently looking for volunteers to help us to relaunch a ‘youth for nature’ group in the autumn.

For children and their teachers, whether in school or at home, to learn to ‘see’ the trees and wildflowers around them. Our shared aim is for all children leaving primary school to be able to recognise and name 6 British native trees and 6 local wildflowers.

Create a ‘School Tree Nursery Bed’ to nurture trees for planting in the community and use as a year-round teaching resource.

Trees and wildflowers are grown and nurtured at our Vigo Rd community allotment. Workdays take place here as well as in the wood.

SOME PAST PROJECTS…