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This group exists as a local forum for anyone interested in countryside conservation in its widest sense, especially in wildlife conservation....

......in the North Craven area of Yorkshire.
Click here for Current (2026) Newsletter and list of upcoming events

Our area includes:
Settle, Malham, Bentham, Gargrave, Ingleton.

(It includes the Three Peaks of Yorkshire - Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen y Ghent - which lie in the South West of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, the north east part of the Forest of Bowland, mostly moorland, and part of the Craven Lowlands)

map of area covered by CCG

Click here for larger map or CCG area

Craven Conservation Group has 70 members most of whom live in this area or just outside. (There are over 100 when one includes members of a family in family membership)


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Our aims and activities include:
talks, botanical surveys, guided walks, children's events, butterfly recording, events for birds, mosses, fungi, grasses, and sedges, and physical conservation work. Our newsletter lists forthcoming events.
We promote links with:
other local, regional and natural history organisations e.g. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Yorkshire Dales Conservation Volunteers, Bentham Footpath Group, Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Plantlife.
Newsletters:

 

Contact us...

Please email Secretary

Or contact one of the committee below

 


Craven Conservation Group Committee Nov 2025- Nov 2026:

Chair: Judith Allinson Committee member: -----Geoff Morries
Secretary Phillipa Hinde Committee member:
Treasurer: Ray Hill Committee member:

Planning Group Sub-Committee


Chair: Judith Allinson Events Co-ordinator: Vacant
Newsletter (i.e. magazine), composition & print production :Ros White  
Web Editor + Ext Affairs (Liaison with YWT and YNU) Judith Allinson 07950 469545 Committee Members:Barbara Thompson, Shirley Robinson, Liz Neale Zoe Pickup, Tamsin Candeland, Geoff Morries

Press OfficerZoe Pickup

Door Money: Chris and Ged Benn & Ros
Tea and Coffee: Shirley Robinson, Katie Pinder,

Others who have attended Planning Meetings recently: Barbara Thompson, David Fisher, Geoff Morries, Terry Whitaker, Tom Lord, Shirley Robinson, Ged and Chris Benn,

All members welcome at planning meetings.

This is the map of the area covered by Craven Conservation Group.
But we do have members who live outside and we do have activities outside this area.

Map of North Craven

 

 


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