Get Involved

We hope you enjoy using the Society’s website. Your own articles, thoughts, photos and recordings will be very welcome, as well as your feedback on the website. Just send them in to: webeditor@mknhs.org.uk. We look forward to receiving them so that we have a dynamic and exciting site.

08/12/2024
 

The 2025 Photo Competition is now open for your entries. After two entries reverting to submission of prints, this year we are going back to digital images only. 

Full details of the competition rules, required specifications and how the competition will be run can be found here:
https://mknhs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/MKNHS-Photo-competition-2025-instructions-final.pdf
If you have any queries, please email to photocomp@mknhs.org.uk

The closing date for entries is 14 January 2025.

The competition is open to all members of the Society.
Any non-members who would like to participate are welcome to join the Society in order to take part; you can join online: https://mknhs.org.uk/membership-2/

There are five categories, and each member may enter a maximum of 2 images per category. (That’s a maximum of 10 images in total.)

The five categories are:
1. Birds
2. Invertebrates
3. All other animals, including mammals, fish, insects etc.
4. Plants and fungi
5. Habitats, geological, astronomical.

Domestic animals and cultivated plants are not eligible.
People must not be a major subject of any photograph.

May the best photograph win! It could be yours!

 
He needs a couple of people he can show the set-up procedure to. It’s not difficult, you do not need to know about audio or electronics and he intends to make it easier by colour coding all plugs and cables.
 
Please contact him via webeditor@mknhs.org.uk as soon as possible so he can arrange a short meeting at the Cruck Barn to show you what to do.
21/06/2024
 
Paul Lund usually sets up the sound system and replaces the microphone batteries on Tuesday evenings.
However, he will soon be going into hospital for spinal surgery and does not expect to be able to do anything for some weeks afterwards. That includes our September and October meetings.
 
He needs a couple of people he can show the set-up procedure to. It’s not difficult, you do not need to know about audio or electronics and he intends to make it easier by colour coding all plugs and cables.
 
Please contact him via webeditor@mknhs.org.uk as soon as possible so he can arrange a short meeting at the Cruck Barn to show you what to do.

All members are welcome to send in articles about local wildlife whether in your garden or further afield; articles about specific species that you have some interest in; reviews of useful books or apps; requests to members for sightings or other information for particular research projects eg the swift project.
The more you contribute the more interesting it will become for us all.

Please send your articles to webeditor@mknhs.org.uk

Applications are invited from members who need grants to carry out research, surveys etc. in the field of natural history.

This Fund has been set up, with the original bequest of the late Gordon Osborn (President of the Society from 1975-1991), to offer financial support to Society members in order that they may carry out a research project in the field of natural history, a survey of a particular local area or species, an educational programme or any other cause considered worthy by the administrators of the fund.

Any member of the society may apply in writing to the administrators of the fund for a grant. Applications should include a description of the activity requiring support and an estimate of the costs involved.

Full information about the fund is available in the MKNHS Guidance Handbook, Appendix 2

If you have a query or wish to apply for a grant, please email MKNHS Secretary: info@mknhs.org.uk