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Fungi Walks and Meetings

March 2025 update: We now have three springtime walks arranged - see details below. Our Autumn 2025 programme will be available here in July / August after our AGM. Please note that our booking arrangements remain in place and are fully explained below.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Unless otherwise stated, ALL WALKS START AT 10.00 am AND FINISH BETWEEN 12.30 am AND 1.00 pm.

OUR WALKS ARE FOR MEMBERS ONLY, but if you'd like to come on a particular walk but are not yet a member, joining is very cheap and very easy: just click here. All are most welcome - especially families - and no previous experience is needed.

If weather conditions are bad (very windy, frosty or snowy) it would be wise to check with the leader before setting out.

Disclaimer - The Grid Reference given for each event is as accurate as we can make it and may not be at the exact location of the meeting place but should get you within a few hundred yards. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the Grid Reference and link to OpenStreetMap is correct BFG excepts no liability should you get lost. We now include the What3Words reference for the turn off spot from the road as an extra guide to each location. Clicking on the W3W link will open the app. Clicking on 'Navigate' will allow you to select your preferred navigation software (e.g. Google Maps).

For guidelines and useful information about our fungi walks click here

NB: If any members find they are not regularly receiving Penny's information circulars before an event (these are sent out the day before booking opens for each event) or have maybe changed their email address, please get in touch with her.

Print Programme (Only valid at time of printing. Always check website for latest information)

BOOKING SYSTEM: All our walks are subject to our booking system and all places MUST be booked in advance and are allocated on a first come/ first served basis. WEEKEND WALKS have a maximum of 18 PLACES available; WEEKDAY WALKS have a maximum of 10 PLACES available.

BOOKING INSTRUCTIONS: Under the date for each event you'll find when booking opens and and closes. CLICK ON THE BLUE BOX PROVIDED THERE to book your place. Our booking secretary needs your full name together with the names of any family members also coming. Please respect this requirement and do not turn up at an event unless your booking has been acknowledged - this is normally within 24 hours. NB: Please refrain from sending in bookings BEFORE 7am on the opening morning!!

Date 2025 Event
Saturday April 26th
 Hodgemoor Wood (SSSI - Forestry England)
Click here for Report and List
Wednesday May 7th
 Rushbeds Wood (SSSI - BBOWT).
Click here for Report and List
Sunday May 18th Burnham Beeches (SSSI - City of London Corporation).
Click here for Report and List
Friday July 25th
NB 11.00am 		BFG AGM at College Lake Nature Reserve BBOWT (HP23 5QG / SP935139 / W3W: broadens.ends.pebbles). We return to this venue which is suitably located for our committee members who are spread across the county, also over the borders into both Herts and Oxfordshire. The meeting will as usual be an informal low key affair, finishing by 1.00pm. If you'd like to come please let Penny know a.s.a.p. and by Friday July 19th at the very latest. Any suggestions / ideas you may have for discussion would be welcome; please send them to Penny in good time.

OTHER LOCAL EVENTS OF INTEREST to which members are welcome though booking will still apply.:

Date 2025 Event

BMS = British Mycological Society (www.britmycolsoc.org.uk).

HBFG = Herts & Beds Fungi Group (contact Stephen Kelly stephen.kelly@talktalk.net ).