Join us at the Autumn Meeting and AGM on Saturday 18 October to celebrate our 150th anniversary!

The conference is taking place from 2pm to 5.30pm at the offices of Affinity Water, Tamblin Way, Hatfield AL10 9EZ.

The programme includes a chance to learn more about the Society’s Victorian founders and their rather different approaches to studying natural history. And there will be a special guest, Hertfordshire’s High Sheriff Nicholas Buxton, who will present the HNHS annual awards and talk about his approach to wildlife conservation on the Easneye Estate, near Ware.

The conference will also include updates on the current Herts damselfly and dragonfly survey and the recently completed ten-year survey of mammals, amphibians and reptiles

As always, we are most grateful to Affinity Water for hosting the event.

Programme:

2.00 pm: Welcome – Peter Tallantire, Chair, Herts Natural History Society

2:05 pm The Water Situation in Hertfordshire - Alister Leggatt, Integrated Catchment Manager, Affinity Water

2.15 pm: Update on the Hertfordshire Dragonfly Atlas - Roy Woodward, Hertfordshire County Recorder

2:50 pm: Update on the Hertfordshire Mammals, Amphibians and Reptiles Atlas

3.05 pm: The nature of the Easneye Estate - Nicholas Buxton

3:25 pm The HNHS Awards for 2025 presented by Nicholas Buxton, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire

3.35 pm: Refreshments break. An opportunity to visit displays and the HNHS bookstall. Hertfordshire County Wildlife Recorders will be available to answer questions about recording and monitoring in the county.

4.15 pm HNHS 2025 Annual General Meeting

4:35 pm Then and now: 150 years of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society - David Utting, Secretary of HNHS

5.20 pm: Summing up and raffle draw.

There is an entry charge of £5 towards the costs of the conference, but admission to the AGM (only) is free.