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Greenspace Festival 2025 - call for volunteers

Calling all DU staff and students!
Greenspace Festival 2025 - call for volunteers

Recycle your unwanted plants

Help us reach our waste target by donating your unwanted plants when you move out this summer.
Recycle you unwanted plants 2025

Congratulations to our My Greenspace app monthly winners

This month, you've taken the time to upload your #nomowmay photos to earn points on our app.
Monthly winners May 2025

Greenspace Festival 2025 - save the date

On Tuesday 10 June, from 11:30 to 16:30 at Library Square, near Bill Bryson Library, we will be celebrating all things sustainability and biodiversity at the University, with stallholders from our partners in environmental action, talks from sustainability leaders and much more.
Greenspace Festival 2025 save the date

Wildflower planting volunteering opportunity

This May, we are participating in No Mow May, a movement that encourages letting lawns grow to support pollinators and other essential wildlife.
wildflower planting volunteering opportunity

Are you taking part in No Mow May? Find out how you can win...

The Grounds team have dedicated parts of the Durham University campus and 50 per cent of the Botanic Gardens to #nomowmay By taking part, we hope to support essential pollinators and other wildlife.
No Mow May 2025

Congratulations to our My Greenspace app monthly winners!

You've been busy taking part in our sustainable fashion tasks and uploading photos of our iNaturalist guided walks to earn points and win prizes.
Monthly winners April 2025

City Nature Challenge 2025 x DU Greenspace

Join us for one of our guided walks and support the global citizen science project.
City Nature Challenge 2025 CNC

Wildflower plant sale, Botanic Gardens, Durham University

Spring is here and it's the perfect time to transform your lawns into wildlife havens by taking part in No Mow May. You can also support biodiversity by planting wildflowers in your garden boarders or planters.
Plant sale, Botanic Gardens, April 2025

Greenspace calendar April 2024 - 2025

Join the Greenspace movement in April!
Greenspace calendar April 24 - 25

Congratulations to our monthly My Greenspace winners!

Congratulations to our My Greenspace app monthly winners.
My Greenspace monthly winners March 2025