The Friends

The Friends of the Roman Road and Fleam Dyke were set up in April 2001 to help raise money to protect and extend the best wildlife areas on the two sites, as well as to raise awareness amongst local communities.

Since then, we have raised over £35,000 for habitat management, as well as to provide information boards, leaflets and dog bins. We organise regular work parties (listed under Events) during the winter, to which volunteers are always welcome. Members of the Friends also carry out species monitoring, so please join us if you’d like to help record wildlife on the two sites.

The Friends are run by volunteers. This means that all of the money we raise can go towards paying for management work to benefit the special wildlife of chalk grassland, or helping to promote the sites by producing newsletters and leaflets.

Membership is £10 a year per household. As a member, you’ll receive a regular newsletter with news about work done, recent achievements, and articles about the wildlife and history of the two sites. Whether you’re a local resident who knows the sites well, or a visitor to the area who would like to do your bit to conserve these two remarkable sites, then we would be delighted to hear from you.

The Roman Road and Fleam Dyke have a long history, and when you walk along them, you are getting a glimpse into what the landscape would have been like thousands of years ago. Around your feet are the beautiful small flowers of chalk grassland, a habitat that used to cover large areas of Cambridgeshire from Royston to Newmarket, and of which only small fragments now remain. Please join us to help conserve these special places, and make them even better for wildlife in the future!

Membership

To join, please download an application form (.pdf 80kb), or for more information, contact the secretary: Julia Napier, 30a Hinton Avenue, Cambridge, CB1 7AS. Tel: 01223 213152 Email: friends@frrfd.org.uk