The Groundforce presenter came up with top tips which will improve your environment by inviting more wildlife into your garden. Tips given will encourage the number of bats, birds frogs, hedgehogs, bumblebees and ladybirds into our gardens in her drive to improve more local communities in signing up to the campaign for the Environment Agency Action Earth.

Kirsty says:

“You might not think that by building a pond and encouraging frogs into a garden you are being eco-friendly but frogs are actually a non toxic alternative to using slug pellets. Volunteering to turn a disused space near you into a haven for wildlife, by planting wildflowers for bumble bees or making bat boxes can really boost the bio-diversity in your local area.”

There are 2 million people who are environmental volunteers each year and studies show that people who volunteer to do this are more likely to lose weight and in turn become less stressed.

Further independent research by the CSV has uncovered that 42% of people who volunteer for conservation projects claim it helped them shed pounds of weight whilst 61% said that volunteering had helped them in combating their stress.