St Nicks

The Environment Centre will be closed between 23rd December 2016 and 8th January 2017. It will re-open on Monday 9th January 2017. Please note that our household recycling collections are carrying on throughout that period except for Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th December – collections from those dates will be rescheduled for Thursday 29th December […]

We publish a half-yearly newsletter for our members who receive it first. If you’d like to catch up with our news and projects, you can download it here. This editorial, written by St Nicks Chief Officer Tom Waring, will give you an overview of the content: The summer sun has done a grand job of […]

We are currently looking for a Volunteer Park Ranger intern and Volunteer Fundraising Intern. These are great opportunities to gain the vital experience needed to start a career in conservation or third sector. Please see our Vacancies page for more information.

Sending a big thank you to our supporters who have nominated us as the charity of the month at the Goodramgate branch of Ambiente Tapas! If you eat at the restaurant anytime in November, the £1 voluntary charity contribution added to your bill will go to St Nicks and Ambiente will top up the final […]

We couldn’t have wished for a lovelier day on which to hold our annual Autumn Fayre this year, on 15th October! We had plenty of sunshine to keep us warm and there was a great buzz around the place. Local poet and St Nicks’ patron, Anneliese Emmans Dean of the BigBuzz fame was very busy asking […]

We would like to thank staff at TSP Projects for raising a whopping £2,530 for St Nicks as their chosen charity of the year. Funds were raised via cake sales, sponsored dress-down Fridays and a craft event showcasing artistic creations made by staff, which were raffled or auctioned at the end of an exhibition. Additional […]

We are delighted to announce that we have won the Green Flag Community Award for the 7th year running. This award celebrates not just the nature reserve but all of the work St Nicks does. So a big thank you goes to all our amazing volunteers for their continued hard work keeping St Nicks looking […]

Thanks to Buglife’s Urban Buzz project we have managed to enhance a number of grassland areas over the nature reserve through wildflower seed sowing and plug planting. Areas such as the meadow, stone circle and heritage orchard have all benefited and are all buzzing with life and colour. It’s not just about planting for Urban […]

Annual general meetings may not be the most exciting of events on anyone’s calendar but our Chief Officer Tom Waring was very excited to present our latest annual report to St Nicks’ members on the hot evening of 19th July. St Nicks has achieved a lot over the last financial year of 2015-16 – you […]

Would you like to join our Board of Trustees? St Nicks is the green heart of York, an environment centre and nature reserve on a former landfill site located just one mile from the city centre. Our mission is to create lasting positive change in actions and attitudes of York residents to enable them to move towards a sustainable […]