04 November 2019
Sussex Wildlife Trust is very grateful to the members of the Hastings Ramblers Club for their recent kind donation to the Discovery Centre.
Hastings Ramblers often visit Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and are looking forward to trying out our new visitor centre.
We spoke to Committee Member Ivor Blunt, who has been coming to the reserve for decades, and remembers when “Dr Barry” started work here 35 years ago.
25 October 2019
As the huge glass panels began being installed in the Discovery Centre, we got much more of a sense of what the building will look like when it’s completed.
Baxall Construction have brought in the Sealtite Group for this, so we spoke to Will Chan, their Business Development Manager.
14 October 2019
We speak to Bronwen Griffiths about her writing and her visits to Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
08 October 2019
In the light of being awarded the Considerate Constructors Certificate of Excellence, we spoke to Baxall Contracts Manager Alan Leigh and asked him a few questions about himself
08 October 2019
We are also delighted to confirm that The National Lottery Heritage Fund have agreed funding for the Discover Rye Harbour programme. This will support a 39-month project to deliver an extensive programme of activities, education, volunteering opportunities and interpretation to both connect people to their natural heritage and inspire interest in the reserve.
02 October 2019
23 August 2019
Trevor Tupholme loved Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. His family have been going for a walk together on the reserve every Boxing Day since 1982. His daughter tells about Trevor, and explains why she’s donated money to the Discovery Centre in his name
22 August 2019
On a Wednesday morning in August, the High Sheriff of East Sussex, Violet Hancock, came to visit Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, to see the wildlife and hear about the Discovery Centre project. The group walked to the Discovery Centre site to see progress on the build, then were taken on a Land Rover tour of the nature reserve, with Barry explaining how the reserve manages the shingle, saltmarsh, saline lagoons, coastal grazing marsh, freshwater gravel pits and reedbed habitats. Emma Chaplin then spoke to Violet about herself, her role and her interest in wildlife:
15 August 2019
A group of friends are coming to the end of a project, involving 30 people, to create a Rye Harbour Nature Reserve quilt as a fundraiser for the Discovery Centre
11 August 2019
We speak to Nigel Braden of Inwood about creating the Discovery Centre in panel form from local, coppiced Sweet Chestnut
