Art and Craft

Discover top tips for capturing your best photographs of the natural world in this informative guide.

Create a colourful mobile whilst learning about bees in this fun and informative activity.

Get creative and transform a cardboard box into a colourful bee.

Create you own postcard filled with images of Wiltshire's wildlife.

Create your very own sheep puppets.

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Change your food habits

Agriculture accounted for 10% of UK greenhouse gas emissions in 2018.
Change how you travel

Transport currently accounts for 27% of UK emissions. Making small changes to how you get from A to B will make a big difference!
Lakeside Care Farm Cleaner

The successful candidate will undertake the cleaning of all rooms and offices to ensure they are kept in a clean and hygienic condition to support the activities delivered at Lakeside.
Change your energy use

Energy used in buildings accounts for around 17% of total emissions. Reducing your household energy use by switching to a renewable energy supplier or purchasing a heat pump will help cut down.

Mammals of Coombe Bissett Down: small mammals

Oliver Davies, with the assistance of a trail camera, has spent the last two months exploring the lives of the reserve's more elusive mammals. In this blog post, we discover more about the reserve's small mammals.
Mammals of Coombe Bissett Down: grey squirrel

Oliver Davies, with the assistance of a trail camera, has spent the last two months exploring the lives of the reserve's more elusive mammals. In this blog post, we discover more about the reserve's grey squirrels.
Word searches

See what Coombe Bissett Down related words you can find in these themed word searches
Early years

Introduce signs of spring and food webs whilst developing fine motor skills in this fun game.
For teachers

Educational resources including activity packs, chalk grassland species identification, and the process of reverting arable farmland to chalk downland.
Poetry

Write a nature-themed haiku poem
Wildlife ID

Coombe Bissett Down wildlife identification guides and seasonal spotter sheets.
Colouring sheets

Educational colouring sheets for all ages covering key species and features of Coombe Bissett Down