Started in 2016 as a competition between Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) has grown into an international event. This challenge motivates people around the world to find and document wildlife in their own cities.&nbsp; York will be taking part for the first time in from 26-29th April 2024.&nbsp;
Find out more at <a href="https://yorkcitynaturechal.wixsite.com/yorkcnc">https://yorkcitynaturechal.wixsite.com/yorkcnc</a>&nbsp;

St Nicks is the green heart of York: a centre for nature and green living, with an ambitious <a href="https://stnicks.org.uk/about-us/the-charity/">vision for York</a>. The charity started as &lsquo;Friends of St Nicholas Fields&rsquo; in the 1990s by transforming a former landfill site into a thriving Local Nature Reserve. We continue to manage it, with the help of many great volunteers, for the benefit of both wildlife and our visitors. The name of the site and the secular charity comes from the middle ages when the area was owned and managed by St Nicholas hospital and church. Please see the <a title="History of St Nicks" href="https://stnicks.org.uk/?page_id=70">History pages</a> for more details.
We are based at <a title="Green design" href="https://stnicks.org.uk/?page_id=270">St Nicks Environment Centre</a> which combines many green features. From this base, we run projects, events and services which help to make York more sustainable. The Centre is <a title="Hire the Centre" href="https://stnicks.org.uk/?page_id=273">available for hire</a> for meetings, seminars and other events. We hope you will visit us soon.
St Nicks is registered as &lsquo;Friends of St Nicholas Fields&rsquo;, <a title="The charity" href="https://stnicks.org.uk/about-us/the-charity/">charity </a>no.1153739. We are partially funded by <a href="http://www.york.gov.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">City of York Council</a> and partly by grants from other sources whose support is gratefully received and acknowledged on <a title="Funders and sponsors" href="https://stnicks.org.uk/about-us/the-charity/funders-and-sponsors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this page</a>. The rest of our income comes from <a title="Join St Nicks" href="https://stnicks.org.uk/make-a-difference/join-st-nicks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">membership</a>, <a title="Make a donation" href="https://stnicks.org.uk/make-a-difference/make-a-donation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">donations</a>, fundraising <a title="Events" href="https://stnicks.org.uk/get-inspired/events/">events </a>and other activities.
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<li data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">&nbsp;We&nbsp;are&nbsp;fully&nbsp;committed to making sure that&nbsp;our services, special places and the support&nbsp;we offer&nbsp;are&nbsp;as&nbsp;welcoming,&nbsp;inclusive and accessible as possible.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">We want&nbsp;St Nicks&nbsp;to&nbsp;reflect&nbsp;a diverse society where we learn from each other and build a healthy respect for each other, both so that we can thrive together today and&nbsp;so that we can&nbsp;live&nbsp;together as sustainably as possible&nbsp;in the future.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}">&nbsp;</li>
<li data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">We&nbsp;will strive to ensure that&nbsp;people of all&nbsp;backgrounds and&nbsp;characteristics&nbsp;are able to&nbsp;fully gain from and contribute to St Nicks, and we commit to listening to everyone in our community&nbsp;to&nbsp;make sure that this is the case, identifying and addressing issues as they arise.&nbsp;<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}">&nbsp;</li>
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York City Nature Challenge

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St Nicks - Centre for nature and green living