Friends Of The Hook (FrOTH)
The Hook Nature Reserve receives its first Green Flag Award! July 2024
The Hook Nature Reserve in Lady Bay has been awarded its first coveted Green Flag Award and is now officially recognised as one of the UK’s best green spaces.
The 15-hectare nature reserve has been named among 2,227 other parks and green places across the UK that have received the award, which sets the benchmark standard for the management of recreational outdoor spaces across the UK and around the world.
The site became a nature reserve in 2009 and is managed in partnership with Rushcliffe Borough Council, The Friends of The Hook and Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust.
It consists of a mixture of habitats including amenity grassland, river embankment, mature hedgerows, grassland, ditches and scrub and is home to a variety of flora and fauna including moths and butterflies.
The green space provides a valuable habitat for invertebrates, small mammals such as water voles and nearly 90 species of birds have been recorded over the years, including the purple heron and white egret.
Friends of the Hook Open Day
Free drop-in event at All Hallows' Church Hall, 16th March
See poster for more details.
Friends Of The Hook aim to support the use and management of the Hook area of Lady Bay as a designated Local Nature Reserve by protecting, maintaining and enhancing it for the benefit of the local community and for flora and fauna. They are a voluntary organisation, working with Nottinghamshire Wildlife and Rushcliffe Borough Council.
You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/friendsofthehook
Information about the Hook and the Friends group is also available at www.friendsofthehook.org.uk.
Or email Jane Browne at [email protected] for information, or to raise an issue about the Hook that you would like the Friends committee to discuss. Volunteers are always welcome - see below for examples of their work and here is their archive - they've been at it for a while now.
The FrOTH AGM will be held at 7-00pm on the 9th May 2023 in the Breckles Hall. Everyone welcome.
FroTH benefits from Co-op Community funding
Friends of the Hook benefit from the Co op community funding 'Protecting and enhancing Our Environment', which will run until September 2020.
If you are a member of the Co-op, you can, on line, allocate your Co-op community funding to Friends of the Hook.
conservation action afternoons
If you would like to become involved then join our Conservation action afternoons; meet at the Mona Road entrance to the Hook at 2.00 p.m. on the first Sunday of each month, look out for the signs!