Fungi Walks and Meetings
Our Autumn 2026 programme will be made available below in late July / August after our AGM planned for late June. Please note that our booking scheme will be continuing and will apply to all our Walks. Instructions are fully explained below.
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.
Cancelations / Weather conditions - Our walks go ahead 'whatever the weather' unless conditions are considered either dangerous (very windy, frosty or snowy) or too dry causing a lack of fungal activity. Very occasionally a site owner may cancel a visit due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event of a last minute cancelation, those members who've booked on a walk will be informed by email and / or phone. If in doubt over possibly dangerous conditions, it would be wise to check for messages or contact the leader before setting out from home.
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).
Please note that by making a booking for one of our walks you are agreeing to follow our 'Walks Guidelines'. Click here to view
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)
| Date 2026 | Event |
| Sunday April 19th Booking essential Booking opens Sat Apr 11th 7am and closes Sat Apr 18th midday. Max 18 places Click here to book Click here to cancel |
Burnham Beeches (Permission pending) (SSSI – City of London Corporation). An outstanding example of ancient Beech woodland with an extensive list of interesting and rare species, this is now recognised as a site of national and arguably international importance for fungi. Today's walk forms part of our now extended project for CoLC together with Stoke Common. Today's walk forms part of our now extended project for CoLC together with Burnham Beeches.Meet at SU954 849 in Sir Henry Peek's overflow car park previously: Turn into Lord Mayor's Drive (W3W:miss.penny.shrimp - this is the main entrance opposite Beeches Road, Farnham Common) and continue past the café on your left to the cross roads (Victoria Cross). Here turn left and go through the gateway to the car park which is on your left after a few yards (W3W: catch.pots.cone). NB: Please note there is a £3 charge per vehicle; payment is by card only (machine near the café) or in advance through RingGo (area no 28452). NB2: Dogs on leads only. Leaders: Penny Cullington with Jesper Launder and /or Claudi Soler. |
| Saturday May 2nd Booking essential Booking opens Fri Apr 24th 7am and closes Fri May 1st midday. Max 18 places Click here to book Click here to cancel |
Stowe Landscape Gardens (Permission pending) (National Trust). 250 acres of landscape gardens with lakes, wooded valleys and open grassland. This will be our first visit here at this time of year. Meet at SP675 378 in the original but now disused NT carpark (NB this is not the main carpark by the new visitor centre). Head for the crossroads on the A442 about 3 miles NW of Buckingham and after Bufflers Holt and Spinney Hill Farm on your left. Here turn right (north) and follow the straight road towards Stowe School. Stay on this road and (at W3W: responded.baffle.ruler) continue through some imposing gates then over a beautiful bridge and carry straight on past the Stowe School buildings on your right where there's a barrrier. (Just mention that you are BFG to the official here.) The large car park area is then fairly soon on your right (at W3W: reflect.rivers.flask). (For those who've visited with us here before it is where we've parked in the past.) Leaders: Penny Cullington with Jesper Launder and /or Claudi Soler. |
| Wednesday May 6th Booking essential Booking opens Tue Apr 28th 7am and closes Tue May 1st midday. Max 10 places Click here to book Click here to cancel |
Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens (S. Bucks District Council). This attractive and unusual garden site has mature trees, many areas of woodchip and several areas of lawn. We may also visit the adjacent St. Giles Churchyard which has produced some interesting and rare grassland species in the past. Meet at SU977 825 at the Gardens' office buildings just inside the main gate which is on the west side of Church Lane off the B 416 (at W3W: along.bounty.assume). Some parking is available in the driveway just beyond the office buildings, otherwise there is a large car park opposite the entrance. Penny has been leading walks here for Friends of the Gardens for the last 20 years but this is our first official BFG visit here. Leaders: Penny Cullington with Jesper Launder and /or Claudi Soler. |
| Wednesday May 20th Booking essential Booking opens Tue May 12th 7am and closes Tue May 19th midday. Max 10 places Click here to book Click here to cancel |
Stoke Common (Permission pending) (SSSI - City of London Corporation). This is a notably interesting site for fungi having acid sandy soil – unusual for the county. There are large areas of heathland surrounded by a (now somewhat reduced) perimeter of mixed woodland. The fungi list is long and varied with some species rare elsewhere in the county and several new to the UK in recent years. Today's walk forms part of our now extended project for CoLC together with Burnham Beeches. Travelling south on the B416 from Gerrards Cross turn off east at the traffic lights near the Fox and Pheasant into Stoke Common Road, then look for the main gate into the Common on your right on a slight bend at SU986 857 (W3W: fears.fend.puff). Park judiciously in the road, taking care when crossing, and we'll meet just inside the main gate. (There's a layby a little earlier on the right by a pedestrian gate where we've met previously). Leaders: Penny Cullington with Jesper Launder and /or Claudi Soler |
OTHER LOCAL EVENTS OF INTEREST to which members are welcome though booking will still apply.:
| Date 2026 | Event |
BMS = British Mycological Society (www.britmycolsoc.org.uk).
HBFG = Herts & Beds Fungi Group (contact Stephen Kelly stephen.kelly@talktalk.net ).