Noak Bridge Nature Reserve Society
membershipIt was proposed and adopted at the AGM held 24th May 2026 that the Society dispenses with an annual paid membership fee.Voting on Society business will be conducted solely by Committee members at both periodic Management Committee meetings and at the Annual General Meeting. In line with the Society's Equal Opportunities statement, all members of the community are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting as observers and in a non-voting capacity. General Data Protection Regulation Policy from 25 May 2018 The Noak Bridge Nature Reserve Society adopted the following policy at their Committee Meeting 20 May 2018. To comply with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation, from 25 May 2018 the Society undertakes to ensure that data held on members, donors, suppliers and customers will be kept securely and will not be made available to third parties unless required to do so by law. A request may be made by those listed above to reveal what data of theirs is held, and to correct within 28 days any data as requested if it is incorrect or no longer required. The information that we hold will normally only be data supplied by people, organisations or companies about themselves. newsletterslatest issue - Summer 2026newsletter archiveSummer 1995 / Autumn 1999 / Spring 2000 / Summer 2000 / Autumn 2000 / Spring 2001 / Winter 2001 / Spring 2002 / Autumn 2002 / Spring 2003 / Summer 2003 / Autumn 2003 / Winter 2003 / Spring 2004 / Autumn 2004 / Winter 2004 / Spring 2005 / Autumn 2005 / Winter 2005 / Spring 2006 / Summer 2006 / Winter 2006 / Spring 2007 / Autumn 2007 / Winter 2007 / Spring 2008 / Summer 2008 / Winter 2008 / Spring 2009 / Summer 2009 / Winter 2009 / Spring 2010 / Spring 2011 / Winter 2011 / Spring 2012 / Summer 2012 / Winter 2012 / Spring 2013 / Summer 2013 / Autumn 2013 / Winter 2013 / Spring 2014 / Summer 2014 / Autumn 2014 / Spring 2015 / Summer 2015 / Autumn 2015 / Winter 2015 / Spring 2016 / Summer 2016 / Autumn 2016 / Winter 2016 / Spring 2017 / Summer 2017 / Autumn 2017 / Winter 2017 / Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Autumn 2018 / Winter 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Autumn 2019 / Winter 2019 / Spring 2020 / Winter 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Autumn 2021 / Winter 2021 / Summer 2022 / Autumn 2022 / Winter 2022 / Spring 2023 / Winter 2023
activitiesThe Society was formed in June 1999 as a result of many years of dedicated work and lobbying by founder-members striving to preserve the wildlife environment, ponds, meadows and trees around our homes as more and more of the land was acquired for housing. Due to their efforts our 20 acres have been secured as a local nature reserve for the forseeable future.Disabled access gates have been installed and there is an easy access trail on the lower level. On 2018 a biodiverse storage container was erected in the central area of the Reserve where tools and equipment belonging to the Society can be kept. The Society is dedicated to assisting Basildon Council Countryside Services in the development and maintenance of the reserve. We host occasional walks throughout the year on specific themes. A voluntary work party takes place once a month. Notices about work parties and other events are published on notice boards, in the local shops, and on the Reserve's Facebook and Instagram pages. Newsletters are published up to four times a year. The Annual General Meeting usually takes place in early July. work parties These are usually held on the third Tuesday of the month, January-November, from 12:30pm to 2:30pm, with a representative from Basildon Council's Countryside Services in attendance. (Until June 2021, the work parties were conducted by a BCCS Ranger. Until August 2023, work parties were held from 1pm to 3pm.) Typical tasks include cutting back the sidegrowth along the walks, putting up and checking nesting boxes, coppicing to create woodland glades, cleaning up the ponds, conducting wildlife surveys, clearing rubbish and maintaining facilities (benches, paths, notices etc). Members and non-members are encouraged to take part. Meet at the Eastfield Road entrance. next work party (weather permitting) Tue, 21st July 2026, 12:30pm The schedule is still to be confirmed, but will no doubt include a litter-pick and cutting back of side-growth along the paths. future work party dates 18th August 2026 15th September 2026 20th October 2026 17th November 2026 19th January 2027 16th February 2027 reports from previous work parties For the first few years of the Society, most of the online discussions and announcments about the Reserve took place on one of the forums at NoakBridge.net. In 2006 the admin decided to change the content management system being used without warning its users beforehand and without doing a back-up, so all the forum posts were lost (including those containing interesting historical info about the area). Replacement forums were created but understandably people were less enthusiastic about using them. The site eventually closed down and NoakBridge.net is no longer a registered domain name. Fortunately when the replacement forum was discontinued we had the opportunity to save the posts, and these were transferred to a discussion board on Facebook. However this facility too was eventually discontinued. Reports are now posted here, and in our Facebook Group as comments on the posts announcing our monthly work parties. 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023 / 2024 / 2025 / 2026 |
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