Bird Box Building Workshop for Swifts

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.

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 going into landfill. The workshops will be led by the Lancaster Men's Hub Workshop.

Want to learn new skills and help nature at the same time? Join us for these workshops.

Places are limited. Booking required. The workshops are free.

The Workshops will take place at the Lancaster Men's Hub Workshop on the 1st Feb & 8th Feb and at Skerton Community Centre on the 15th February. Once booked we will email you directions and confirmation of a place nearer the time.

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.