Swift bird box building workshop
Free workshops to help make new Swift Bird Boxes for the Lancaster area. Learn new skills and help nature.
Lancaster Swift City is a group of local people passionate about helping Swifts thrive in and beyond the Lancaster area.
Swifts are birds on the red endangered list. Sadly, their numbers have declined 62% in the last few decades. The decline is partly due to a loss of nesting sites, as old buildings are pulled down or buildings re-roofed and nesting holes blocked.
Find out more about what the swifts mean to our ecosystem, and how Lancaster became a Swift City in this blog post.
There is an urgent need to find ways to help them, when they return to Lancaster every spring to nest. A way to tackle this is to build and install more swift boxes in the area to replace the sites that are being lost.
We need your help to build 40 new nest boxes. The boxes will be put up in the Lancaster area. All the boxes will be made from scrap wood, thus helping reduce waste. The workshops will be led by the Lancaster Men’s Hub Workshop.
Places are limited. Booking required. The workshops are free.
The Workshops will take place at:
- 1 & 8 February, 1pm at the Lancaster Men’s Hub Workshop
- 15 February, 1pm at Skerton Community Centre
The project has been awarded funding by the Closing Loops Pots of Possibility grant fund. Closing Loops is a five-year £1.5 million project led by the Food Futures partnership and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.
