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Outdoor events:
Those attending the outdoor events should be appropriately dressed (spare clothes, waterproofs, walking boots, sun-hats, sun-block etc.). Bring food and a drink. Contact the event leader in advance, to see if dogs are permitted. Non-members will be invited to make a donation of £2.00 (children free) to cover CCG’s advertising and insurance costs.
SAFETY NOTE
Event leaders have the discretion not to accept participants who are not suitably equipped or whom they consider unable to participate safely. Although all reasonable steps have been taken to ensure safety, participants join in at their own risk.
Programme
Items in coloured boxes (green) are not CCG events and items on turquoise are ACE Settle Events- but CCG members welcome on both. Items in pale or medium mauve boxes are online events organised by other organisiatsion. Members of CCG are eligible to attend YNU meetings (pale yellow orange boxes) as we are part of the YNU.
Tu| Date | Event: Links go to details (if upcoming) or report (if past ) | Number of CCG people who attended |
2026: Thurs 1 Jan to Sun 4 Jan 2026
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The BSBI New Year Plant Hunt - takes place in the first four days over the new year every New Year and people contribute from all over Britain. See the national results for 2026 here. for the 1983 surveys carried out It took me two separate walks (one on 1 Jan and one on 2 Jan to cover the route I had managed in 1 day previously. 2 Jan: 14 spp (2 hours): Mill close elecricity sub station gravel area; Queens Rock, Sowarth Industrial Estate, Cammock Lane Allotments Total over both days, including 1 extra on Day 1 that i forgot to label, and 5 different omes on day 2 = 20 species: (This ranked about 400th out of the 1983 surveys Someone called Ian Hughes entered his results for Settle and though the WeBSBI website says he found 3 in flower, he actuallye entered 16 species but did not mark them down as in flower. I assume they were actually in flower - and his list includes nore species. SO I think we can say a total of 26 species were found in Settle in flower over the new year. ANd if another three walks had taken place that would have increased the score further. THe highest score on the BSBI website is 110 in swanage, and the highest northern place is Morpeth ranking 12th with 76 species -------------------------- I also looked for pllants in flower on the Settle Harriers Winter Handicap but found noe in flower on the race route - the hazel was not fully out. However in Clapham village (not a full survey) I noticed 3 species including pellitory-of-the-wall which does not grow in Settle. 3 Jan: Clapham (after the Settle Harriers winter Handicap: 3 species incl Pellitory-of-the wall (20 min) --------------------------------------------------------------------------
See our results for CCG for 2025 amongst all the national results here In 2022 five members joined the parish walk at Keasden Head (See pictures), Past CCG NYPH events: 2022 , 2021 (42 species - a record), 2019 , 2018 , 2017, 2016, 2015. It is easy to send in results using an app on a mobile phone. I did surveys on two different days - one gave 14 species In fact f(not 15 as is entered) and one with 10 plants,(giving a total of 21 DIFFERENT species) then and entry for 12 and an entry for 13 (recorded as near Giggleswick Golf Club) but the total of different species for Settle is 27 |
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| Fri 9 Jan | YNU Zoom Chat Meeting 7:00pm-8:00pm Actually to 8:15pm as we include breakout groups , a coffee break and an announcement time. Tonight three mini-talks: each with time for discussion and questions. Love on the web: Spiders by Andy Baxter To register and get the zoom link goto
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| Sat 10 Jan 10.30-12.30am | Action on Climate Emergency Settle Café. St John's Church. Discussion
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| Thur 15 Jan | Talk: "We bought a Nature Reserve" by Steve Garland An entertaining talk about the problems involved about the new nature reserve that a goup of four people have just bought just south of Carnforth. Steve Garand is a retired museum professional, an entomologist amember of the Lancashire WT and of the Cumbria WT, and a trustee of The Folly and North Craven Building Preservation Trust
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| 23-25 Jan | Big Garden Birdwatch | |
| Fri 6 Feb | YNU Zoom-chat 7pm
YNU Zoom Chat Meeting 7:00pm-8:00pm Actually to 8:15pm as we include breakout groups , a coffee break and an announcement time. Tonight three mini-talks: each with time for discussion and questions. |
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| Thursday 19 February 7.30pm | Talk |
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| Fri 6 March | YNU Zoom-chat 7pm
YNU Zoom Chat Meeting 7:00pm-8:00pm Actually to 8:15pm as we include breakout groups , a coffee break and an announcement time. Tonight three mini-talks: each with time for discussion and questions. |
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| Sat 21 March | Yorkshire Naturalists' Union Conference in York.
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| Thur 26 March | Talk | |
| Wed date to be decided | CCG Meal at Ruchees. c 6.30pm -Feast night
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| 17 Sept | CCG Talk | |
| 15 Oct | CCG Talk | |
| Thur Nov 21 2026 | AGM and Members Slides’ Evening St John’s Methodist Church, Church St, SETTLE, BD24 9JH Entrance: members: FREE! non-members: £5; (join on the night) |
Those attending the outdoor events should be appropriately dressed (spare clothes, waterproofs, walking boots, sun-hats, sun-block etc.). Bring food and a drink.
Contact the event leader in advance, to see if dogs are permitted.
Non-members will be invited to make a donation of £2.00 to cover CCG’s insurance costs.
Event leaders have the discretion not to accept participants who are not suitably equipped or whom they consider unable to participate safely.
Although all reasonable steps have been taken to ensure safety, participants join in at their own risk.
OTHER GROUPS
| Groups in North Craven (i.e. Settle Bentham Ingleton Gargrave Malham Area) | Groups adjacent to North Craven or including a wider area. |
| Roots - Respect Our Old Trees - Settle |
Now you can find out about events run by the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union (YNU) at their website and by some of the forty or so other natural history societies throughout Yorkshire which are affiliated to the YNU |
| Volunteering at Malham Tarn National Trust. | Mid Yorkshire Fungus Group, Download their events pdf and go to the Craven Section to find out about events nearer us. |
Colt Park Thursday Volunteers: |
Kirkby Lonsdale Supporters Branch of Cumbria Wildlife Trust Click for events - details from 015242 41155 |
| Austwick Field and Local History Society. Monthly talks. | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - See YWT North Yorkshire opportunities for volunteering |
| Settle U3A Bird-watching Group | Cumbria Wildlife Trust |
| Settle U3A Geology Group | Forest of Bowland Events |
ACE Settle: Action on Climate Emergency have a biodiversity group that goes tree planting. |
Upper Wharfedale Field Society |
| Bentham Footpath Group | Cumbria Lichens and Bryophytes |
| Ingleton Archaeology Group | Friends of the Dales |
| Settle U3A Geology Group | Yorks Biodiversity Forum |
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Yorkshire Dales National Park Guided Walks and guided walks of other organisations. |
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Edith's Wood Working Parities (near Ingleton) with the Woodland Trust. |
Plantlife - Own the Nature Reserce: Winskill Stones. |
| Bentham Environmentally Sustainable Town: BEST | The North West Fungus Group (Includes Cumbria Lancashire, Cheshire and Clwyd) Information on fungi |
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Rainforest-save.blogspot.com - Judith (webeditor)'s blog on raising money to save wildlife habitats and wildlife activities in Craven North Craven Heritate Trust - Good articles in past issues. Tony Dilger Photography - TG is a CCG member. Good photos Craven Speakers Club, Skipton - Identifying molluscs- easy online key to garden slugs and snails Yorkshire Dales National Park Biodiversity Action Plan Craven District Council Local Biodiversity Action Plan (outside YDNP) Harlequin ladybird survey - News- A new ladybird has arrived in Britain . But not just any ladybird: this is the harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis , the most invasive ladybird on Earth.- Look out for sightings in Craven as it comes north. Fungi Links Sites that link to us: |
| Terry Whitaker would like to receive butterfly and moth records for this part of Yorkshire VC64 and VC65. Non members are very welcome to contribute results too. See the Yorkshire butterfly distribution map that the records contribute to. |
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