Sevenoaks Living Landscape leaflet

How to get involved:
Contact us:
• Contact us and tell us what you are
already doing for wildlife and if you
would like to do more
Fidelity Weston 01732 463372
• Ask us for advice about managing
your garden or local greenspaces
for wildlife – we are keen to help people to make a difference
Website: www.sevenoakslivinglandscape.org
Email: soll@kentwildlife.org.uk
Sevenoaks
Living Landscape
Project (SOLL)
• Get involved in some of our activities,
events and conservation tasks e.g. Open
Gardens for Wildlife – see our website for details
• Get together with your neighbours
to create wildlife links in villages, towns and the countryside
• If you are a local business, support the
Sevenoaks Living Landscape as part of
your relationship with the local community
• If you are involved with a school, visits
to Kent Wildlife Trust reserves and local
farmers can be arranged
• Help us to record wildlife sightings in
the project area and contribute to our
knowledge of Kent’s wildlife
• We can access free land management
advice for landowners and farmers; let us know if we could help you
Photo credits: Back cover - Barn owl © Margaret Holland; front
cover and inside panel: photos © Anne Waite, Maureen Rainey,
Tom Marshall, Gillian Day, Amy Lewis, Medway Valley Countryside
Project, Kent Wildlife Trust. Map kindly provided by Piers Pardoe.
Please help us to keep the Sevenoaks
Living Landscape thriving.
SOLL is a local, community-led project to raise
awareness of our native wildlife in the towns and
countryside in and around Sevenoaks.
HeadOffice: Kent Wildlife Trust,
Tyland Barn, Sandling, Maidstone, Kent ME14 3BD
Tel: 01622 662012 Fax: 01622 671390
info@kentwildlife.org.uk
Registered Charity No. 239992
A company limited by guarantee No. 633098
VAT Registration No. 974842378
www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk
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What is the Sevenoaks Living
Landscape?
The landscape in and around Sevenoaks is
one of the gems of the Kentish countryside.
With everyone’s help, we have real potential
to make it even better for wildlife, both in
towns and villages and in the surrounding
countryside.
This project was set up to enable local people
to take action to enhance the landscape
between three of the Trust’s reserves at
Sevenoaks, Bough Beech and Ivy Hatch.
Through sympathetic management of
areas such as gardens, village greens and
farmland, everyone can enjoy seeing more
wildlife for years to come.
Aims of the Sevenoaks Living
Landscape
• To encourage individuals, local
communities, businesses, landowners,
farmers and local authorities to enhance,
extend and link existing wildlife habitats
• To help local people to get involved and
to understand and enjoy the value of their
local natural environment
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What we are doing in the area:
Restoring
wildflowers to
our hay meadows,
roadside verges
and gardens
Providing wildlife
advice to local
landowners, including
village greens and golf
courses
Using everyone’s
skills - publicity, admin,
organising events,
networking, teaching
Inspiring
local people
through events,
including the annual
Sevenoaks Festival
of Wildlife
Seal
Ightham
Sundridge
Monitoring
species such as the
barn owl to see how
they are responding
to changes to the
countryside
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Ivy Hatch
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Managing our
woodlands and
reinstating coppicing
to benefit wildlife
Hildenborough
Learning new
skills such as
coppicing and
hedgelaying
Bough Beech
Leigh
Tonbridge
Gardening for
wildlife through
Open Gardens, advice
and the Wild About
Gardens Award
scheme
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