Environment Group

The Environment Group is organising a talk and discussion on 17 September at the village hall, see attached flyer.  Mark Hewitt has a wealth of experience managing nature reserves and is currently conservation lead at Skipwith Common, which is similar to Strensall Common.  He has also managed grassland reserves so his talk will have relevance […]

The results from the Flaxton Environment Group village questionnaire are in, and will be presented at a meeting in the village hall on Tuesday 11 March. This will be preceded by a short AGM of the Environment Group, starting at 7 pm. After the presentation of the questionnaire results will be news of planned events […]

We're going pond dipping! The Flaxton Environment Group is organising a pond dipping demonstration at 11 am on Monday 26 May 2025. All welcome including children if accompanied by a parent or guardian. Meet at the pond on the green at the A64 end of the village. Bring a net and clean jam jar if […]

A talk entitled ‘Barn Owls, their life and how we can help them’ by Colin Gibson will be presented at 6.30 on Tuesday 28 October in Flaxton Community Village Hall.  You may have seen the recent report in the Gazette & Herald about Colin and his cousin Chris’s work erecting over 80 barn owl nest […]

Flyer for 2026 AGM

Pond survey to record amphibians (frogs, toads and newts) using ponds in Flaxton.  This is a follow up to a previous survey in 1994 and hopefully will be much more extensive than the small survey carried out a couple of years ago.  It will be carried out by the original 1994 surveyor John Spray in […]