Introducing: The Buzz Club and Weald to Waves!

Join this webinar to learn about two organisations based in Sussex supporting nature recovery, The Buzz Club and Weald to Waves, and how you can get involved.

The Buzz Club is a citizen science group run out of the University of Sussex, directed by Prof. Dave Goulson. There are 22 million gardens in the UK, and the Buzz Club investigates how we can best use them for the conservation of UK wildlife, particularly insects! To do this, we create easy and accessible projects, and ask volunteers of all ages and abilities to conduct them in their private outdoor spaces. This means we have hundreds of volunteers across the UK who make a real difference to real science. 

Issy Sexton, Research Assistant at the Buzz Club, will explain what the Buzz Club is, and how you and your community can get involved in 2025. 

The Weald to Waves project has created a nationally significant wildlife corridor of 100 miles in length across Sussex, from the High Weald and Ashdown Forest, through the Low Weald, over the South Downs, following the river catchments of the Arun, Adur and Ouse, and out to the kelp forests of Sussex Bay. As a network of farmers, land managers, councils, researchers, wildlife charities, schools, gardeners and community groups, we are working together to join the dots for wildlife across our busy and fragmented landscape. The project already has 1000 gardeners and community members from across Sussex pledging to support local wildlife in their outdoor spaces through Gardens and Greenspaces.

Amy Hurn, Coordinator of Gardens and Greenspaces, will explain the importance of our outdoor spaces for those species that need to move across the landscape and how everyone can get involved by taking simple actions and understanding more about what both lives in and visits those spaces through citizen science opportunities. 

Any queries, please contact:
buzzclub@sussex.ac.uk