UK SAW 2026 Update No. 5 at 1st June
Nick Brown
Following Peta's email yesterday, there are now just 44 SAW events on the national list.
So we are not even halfway towards last year's event total.
However there are still 25 long summer days left for you to get more events organised so please keep them coming in via Peta's form and the sooner the better!
Here are the links to:
The essential SAW event form: https://tinyurl.com/SAW 2026 event registration
The national AfS list and map so far: Action for Swifts: SAW events 2026
The RSPB's list of SAW events so far: Swift Awareness Week (This will be updated before the week starts).
So, you really don't feel up to running an event as such butv you'd like to do something?
No problem.
SAW provides the perfect platform for organising other promotional ‘actions’ such as:
1. Getting articles about swifts and their plight into your local (or national) newspaper, community or parish magazine.
2. Putting leaflets/posters on your windows, in libraries, community centres etc. (and even having a display of nest boxes etc).
3. Making a Banksy type mural on a blank wall somewhere….or making swift flags to put up along a street.
4. Getting local youth groups/WI’s to do a project on swifts/make nest boxes/paint them in the colours of the flags of the countries they migrate over.
5. Asking you county wildlife trust/local RSPB or birder group what they do to help swifts and whether they will put something about swifts and UKSAW on their websites, in their newsletters etc.
6. Giving a nest box or two to a local school/church/community centre/care home as a way of involving them.
7. Asking wildlife writers/columnists to write about swifts during the week.
8. Approaching your local radio/TV stations and local print papers to include something about swifts.
9. Using the many social media channels to do the same.
Let me know if you need any help or guidance with any of this....
Cheers
Nick and Peta
Ps. And please don't forget to use the SAW logo on all your publicity!
