Get green fingers for Wild Week this Autumn

Whether foraging for fungi, welcoming wildlife to your garden or building boxes for birds or bats, Wild Week provides the perfect opportunity to get involved with wildlife.

Co-organisers BTCV, The Wildlife Trusts and BBC Breathing Places are encouraging everyone to Do One Thing for nature between 25 October and 9 November. The focus of this year's Wild Week is wildlife gardening: encouraging everyone to create a wildlife-friendly habitat in their garden at home, at school or in a communal green space.

To help you make the most of Wild Week, BBC Breathing Places has produced a number of free resources available at events, including an audio guide to sounds of the night, narrated by Chris Packham, stickers and games for the family, as well as pocket guides to nocturnal wildlife, fungi and wildlife gardening.

Wild Week gives everyone the chance to transform a local patch with other people from their community, learn how to make their own garden wildlife-friendly with the wealth of resources available and get up close with nature at any one of the hundreds of events happening this autumn. Wild Week really is the time to get reconnected with the nature on your doorstep. So before the onset of winter, why not get involved in tree planting, creating a pond or laying a hedge in your local area with BTCV, the UK’s leading practical conservation charity.

Find a BTCV event or volunteering opportunity near you.

As well as BTCV, lots of our conservation partners and community groups will be hosting organised events. To find a Wild Week event near you or to find helpful information about wildlife like how to create bird or bat boxes, log on to the BBC's Breathing Places website.