Thank you to everyone who entered their NPMS data online by the 2^nd November. The reporting will begin this week but the website will still be available for entering your data until the end of December 2015.

If you haven’t already got in touch to let us know if you are starting your survey next year, or no longer wish to take part, then please email support@npms.org.uk to keep us up-to-date.

We are pleased to announce that we have four free NPMS data entry workshops lined up for October:

·         Saturday 10^th October 1-4pm – FSC Margam Discovery Centre, Port Talbot

·         Friday 16^th October 1-4pm – FSC Nettlecombe Court, Taunton

·         Monday 26^th October 1-4pm – FSC Juniper Hall, Dorking

The new National Plant Monitoring Scheme (NPMS), launching in spring 2015, will for the first time enable scientists to take an annual stock take of the UK’s wild plants and their habitats, but to do this we need the public’s help. We are looking for volunteers to carry out surveys of wildflowers and their habitats that will provide robust evidence of which widespread plants are increasing or declining, as well as indicating the changing state of our most valued habitats such as grassland, fenland and even road verges.