Employee Action Days

Get your employees out of the office and into nature with Employee Action Days at Foxglove Covert. 

Foxglove Covert offers groups the opportunity to get outdoors and engage in team building activities through practical conservation tasks. Employees can make a real difference by engaging in hands-on tasks which improve habitats and infrastructure on the reserve.  

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Help Us to Help You

Demonstrate your company’s Corporate Social Responsibility values by helping Foxglove Covert continue to provide local communities with a stunning natural space and high-quality facilities. 

Give your employees the opportunity to be immersed in nature while learning new skills and giving back to local communities and the environment. 

Foxglove Covert is ideally located just four miles from the A1, making it easily accessible from around the north of England. 

Your Employee Action Day

Tasks vary, but can include

  • Coppicing of willow and hazel
  • Creating and improving dead hedges
  • Path maintenance and improvement
  • Meadow management, including raking and baling cut grass
  • Hide maintenance
  • Building leaky dams
  • Processing felled trees
  • Scrub bashing

Foxglove Covert provides

  • Public Liability Insurance
  • Risk assessment and site visit prior to the day
  • Facilities (tea and coffee, toilets)
  • Experienced guidance and supervision
  • Equipment and PPE required for the tasks

Your team will need

  • Weather appropriate clothing and sturdy footwear
  • A packed lunch

We ask for a donation of £250 per day for a maximum of 15 people. Larger groups can be arranged for additional donation per person. This donation covers costs, including staff time to plan and deliver the day, equipment, and basic PPE.

Due to the close relationship between Foxglove Covert and the Ministry of Defence, military units can book EADs for free. 

Employee Action Days Enquiry

If you are interested in holding an employee action day with us, please complete the form below. We will get in touch to discuss your requirements further.

Other Ways to Support Foxglove Covert

You can also support the reserve through corporate sponsorship. Build trust in your brand’s social and environmental values by joining Foxglove Covert’s Friends scheme. Corporate Friends enjoy 10% off the base fee for our Employee Action Days. 

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Become a Friend of Foxglove

Support Foxglove Covert through corporate sponsorship of the reserve by joining Foxglove Covert's Friends scheme as a Corporate Friend.