TCV: 60 years connecting people and places
Very many congratulations to The Conservation Volunteers - 60 years of encouraging conservation volunteering
It was late February 1959, yet Spring was in the air. Enjoying the day on Box Hill, Surrey, botanist David Bellamy was surprised to find a group of young people ripping up plants in a recently declared Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Discovering they were not vandals but volunteers clearing scrub with ‘The Conservation Corps’, he enthusiastically joined in!
2019: another warm February. In fact, the warmest on record. ‘The Conservation Corps,’ now The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), is celebrating its 60th anniversary. David Bellamy is still with us (a TCV Vice-president) but the world has changed. These days unseasonal sunshine is scary.
Find out more about the history of TCV, current projects and hopes for the future
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It was late February 1959, yet Spring was in the air. Enjoying the day on Box Hill, Surrey, botanist David Bellamy was surprised to find a group of young people ripping up plants in a recently declared Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Discovering they were not vandals but volunteers clearing scrub with ‘The Conservation Corps’, he enthusiastically joined in!
2019: another warm February. In fact, the warmest on record. ‘The Conservation Corps,’ now The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), is celebrating its 60th anniversary. David Bellamy is still with us (a TCV Vice-president) but the world has changed. These days unseasonal sunshine is scary.
Find out more about the history of TCV, current projects and hopes for the future