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Online membership payment

You can now pay for your membership of Monkton Nature Reserve online. Just go to our Payments for Membership page. Here you can take out or renew a membership, and choose whether to take out…
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Wednesday winter closure

Starting from 3rd October the Reserve will be closed to the public on Wednesday’s for the duration of the winter period. This one-day closure will help facilitate various works and projects that are planned. At…
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Volunteer Position – Plants

We are looking for a volunteer with ‘green fingers’ to tend our expanding plant sales section. The majority of plants we get are donated and, sometimes, unlabelled. The role will entail repotting, identifying, labelling, and…
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September Astronomy

More details about the September 28th astronomy viewing session has now been posted in the Events section. Details include what the pre-viewing presentation will be about and what will hopefully (weather allowing) be visible in…
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Heritage Open Day – FREE entry

On the 15th September the Reserve will have FREE entrance as part of the Heritage Open Days event. Heritage Open Days is England’s largest festival of history and culture. Every year in September, places across…
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Summer Holiday Activities

Monday through to Friday during the school summer break we have daily activities aimed towards our younger visitors. With pond dipping, arts & craft, museum Q&A's, book swaps and birds of prey, there is something…
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Nationwide cake sale

We would like to send out a huge thank you to the four local branches of the Nationwide Building Society (Canterbury, Margate, Birchington and Cliftonville) who held a cake sale on Wednesday 28th March to…
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Nationwide cake sale in aid of MNR

Local branches of the Nationwide Building Society are supporting  Monkton Nature Reserve by holding a cake sale in aid of raising funds for the maintenance of our observatories. The branches supporting us are Canterbury, Margate,…
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Weekend Closure

Due to the amber weather warning forecast for this weekend, the Reserve will not be open to the public on Saturday 17th or Sunday 18th March.
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More Volunteering Roles Added

We have added 4 more roles to the list of volunteering opportunities available. We are looking for volunteers to lead educational activities, look after plant sales and for our website and social media platforms. More…
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