Past Events
PLEASE NOTE: There has been A CHANGE IN PARKING and MEETING ARRANGEMENTS to those in the programme. We will now MEET in Bossingham village at TR1508 4899 by the junction with Bossingham Road, The Street and Manns Hill. There is roadside parking close by in Bossingham Road at around TR1500 4883 and in The Street.
A joint meeting with the Kent Botanical Recording Group to this large woodland on varied soils, where a number of rare plant species have been recorded.
Meet Bossingham village at TR1508 4899 by the junction with Bossingham Road, The Street and Manns Hill. There is roadside parking close by in Bossingham Road at around TR1500 4883 and in The Street.
| Event Date | 21-05-2016 |
| Location: | Upper Hardres Wood, Bossingham |
A day of general recording in this interesting Local Wildlife Site comprising chalk and neutral grassland with scrub.
Meet at TR323427 in the layby off Dover Road, adjacent to Fort Burgoyne.
Leader: Mike Phillips from the 'Up on the Downs' project and Kent Reptile and Amphibian Group.
| Event Date | 15-05-2016 |
| Location: | Coombe Hole and Connaught Park, Dover |
All records required for this site, managed by Kent Wildlife Trust and currently threatened by development.
Meet at TR002441 in the reserve car park.
Leader: Camilla Blackburn.
| Event Date | 14-05-2016 |
| Location: | Ashford Warren |
Learn how to identify and press some seaweed species that are commonly found around our shores.
| Event Date | 08-05-2016 |
| Location: | Reculver Country Park |
General records required for this gill woodland and marshy grassland near the Kent Water.
Meet at TQ508410, limited parking in a layby by the access gate North of Top Hill Wood.
Leader: Sam Thomas.
| Event Date | 07-05-2016 |
| Location: | Hobb’s Hill Farm, Cowden |
This visit will include 'the Shallows' adjacent to the river Medway which has had recent management to improve the habitat.
Meet at TQ571459 in the car park, the leader can provide free parking passes.
Leader: Rachel Cantwell.
| Event Date | 30-04-2016 |
| Location: | Haysden Country Park, Tonbridge |
The first of two Kent Field Club meetings at this new country park in Ashford.
Meet at TR028436, parking in the car park of the Julie Rose Stadium, Ashford, TN24 9QX.
Leader: Jacky Langton.
| Event Date | 16-04-2016 |
| Location: | Conningbrook Lakes CP |
NB. If you are interested in this meeting please email and request to be added to the circulation list to receive updates of the meeting time and place.
Leader: Fiona White.
| Event Date | 10-04-2016 |
| Location: | Dymchurch |
Meet at TR062197 in the ARC car park opposite Boulderwall Farm.
Leader: Ronnie Haar.
| Event Date | 09-04-2016 |
| Location: | Dungeness RSPB Reserve |
A good site for rare sandrock liverworts.
Meet at TQ568383 at the end of Summervale Road, parking in residential roads.
Leader: Stephen Lemon.
| Event Date | 03-04-2016 |
| Location: | Friezland Wood |
Annual General Meeting of the Kent Field Club. Meet at Tyland Barn TQ752593 by 2 pm.
Including the Annual President's Address
'Kentish badgers; not what you expect?'
By Kent Field Club President, Martin Newcombe
Plus short reports on other aspects of Kent's wildlife:
'Kent Tephritid Flies' by Laurence Clemons
'The Seaweeds of Kent' by Ian Tittley
It is planned that the AGM will also be the launch date of:
"The New Atlas of the Seaweeds of Kent".
The AGM will include the following special resolutions:
Proposals for further changes to the Club's constitution as detailed here: 
KFC constitution proposed changes 2016.doc and intended, inter alia, to clarify and simplify membership and meetings arrangements, and to simplify the arrangements governing any future change to the constitution
| Event Date | 13-03-2016 |
| Location: | Tyland Barn |
A joint meeting with the Kent Botanical Recording Group for ferns and general records. Meet at
TQ742375 by 10 am, parking in layby on the north side of A262 opposite 2 isolated houses.
Leader: Sue Buckingham. Please notify Sue Buckingham or in advance if you expect to attend.
| Event Date | 12-03-2016 |
| Location: | Old Park Wood, Iden Green |
Meet at 12:30pm, at TR399701 in car park above Joss Bay.
NB. Please email and request to be added to the circulation list to receive updates of this and other Shoresearch meetings.
Leader: Fiona White (07779 657573).
| Event Date | 21-11-2015 |
| Location: | Joss Bay, North Foreland |
Meet at TQ669629 in Holly Hill public car park.
Leader: Mario Tortelli (0208 699 0950).
| Event Date | 15-11-2015 |
Meet at TQ617433 in the RSPB car park, off Dislingbury Road.
Leader: Martin Allison (07766 113422).
| Event Date | 08-11-2015 |
| Location: | Tudeley RSPB Reserve |
This meeting is in addition to the printed programme.
Meet in the car park at TQ592716. Leader: Anne Andrews.
| Event Date | 31-10-2015 |
| Location: | Beacon Wood Country Park, Bean |
Please note that this meeting has been rescheduled from September 19th.
Meet at TQ482449 in the visitor's car park. Leader: Joyce Pitt (07986 989323).
| Event Date | 25-10-2015 |
Meet at 3:00pm at TR294391 in Samphire Hoe car park.
NB. There is a parking charge. Please email and request to be added to the circulation list to receive updates of this and other Shoresearch meetings.
Leader: Fiona White (07779 657573).
| Event Date | 25-10-2015 |
| Location: | Samphire Hoe |
The Kent Wildlife Conference
Grimond Lecture Theatre 1
Universtiy of Kent, Canterbury Campus
The Kent Wildlife Conference, now in its fifteenth year, created as a way for field naturalists in the county to meet, learn about and discuss the county's wild plant and animal species. This year's conference will include nine presentations covering a wide range of subjects which will be of interest to all those with an enthusiams for Kent's wildlife and field natural history.
The conference will be held in the Grimond Lecture Theatre 1 at the University of Kent's Canterbury Campus, CT2 7NZ. Free, ample parking is available all day in the main vistir car park on site and there is a frequent bus service to the university from both Canterbury East and Canterbury West railway stations.
The cost of the dat will be just £20.00 per person including refreshments and a buffet lunch.
For the full programme and booking form click 
here
| Event Date | 24-10-2015 |
| Location: | University of Kent |
Meet at TR123556 in reserve car park
Leader: Alec Henricki (Contact if needed on day, Joyce Pitt 07986 989323).
| Event Date | 17-10-2015 |
| Location: | Larkey Valley Wood |
Meet at TR044556, in nature reserve car park.
Leader: Mary Gray (01975 890174).
| Event Date | 11-10-2015 |
| Location: | Perry Wood, Selling |
Meet at TQ542683 in car park on Calfstock Lane.
Leader: Trudy Fleming (01732 750774 / 07769 683362).
| Event Date | 03-10-2015 |
| Location: | Farningham Woods Nature Reserve |
This is an opportunity to find out about and take part in a project which aims to survey for harvest mice in every tetrad in Kent. Meet at TR038235, car sharing advised, limited parking on the verges next to Swamp Farm, Swamp Road, Old Romney. Leader: Steve Kirk
| Event Date | 27-09-2015 |
| Location: | Kingsmarsh Lane, Romney Marsh |
A joint meeting with Shoresearch. Meet at 4:30pm meeting location TBC.
NB. Please email and request to be added to the circulation list to receive updates of this and other Shoresearch meetings.
Leader: Fiona White (07779 657573).
| Event Date | 26-09-2015 |
| Location: | Sandgate reef, near Folkstone |
The Future of Conservation in Kent Conference
University of Kent Canterbury campus, Saturday 12th September
As part of the University of Kent's 50th Anniversary celebrations, the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) invites you to a conference on the future of conservation in Kent. We hope to bring together conservation practitioners, researchers and interested members of the public. Speakers at the event are:
Professor Carl Jones MBE, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
Keynote: From the Mauritius kestrel to Kentish choughs: the role of captive breeding and reintroductions in conservation.
Gail Austen, DICE - University of Kent
Speaking about citizen science and conservation
Will Day, Kent Nature Partnership
Speaking about conservation research for informing policy and decision makers
Dr Rob Fish, DICE - University of Kent
Speaking about ecosystems services and public engagement
Professor Richard Griffiths, DICE - University of Kent
Speaking about new techniques for monitoring biodiversity to inform conservation
Dan Tuson, Natural England
Speaking about landscape scale conservation and farming in Kent
Fiona White, Kent Wildlife Trust
Speaking about marine conservation and Marine Conservation Zones
For more details and to buy tickets visit: http://www.kent.ac.uk/sac/events/con-kent.html
Tickets to this event cost £9 for adults, £7 for students and includes tea/coffee breaks and lunch. DICE is part of the School of Anthropology and Conservation
| Event Date | 12-09-2015 |
| Location: | University of Kent |