We are pleased to announce that thanks to funding from The National Lottery Community Fund we will be launching our new family gardening project on Ten Acres with the assistance of Sustainable Life and Strichley Fruit and Nut Village. As soon as it it safe to do so we will […]
Volunteering
So all good things must eventually end – or so they say. We thought we’d go out with a little style of course, so for our final day with the volunteers this year we invited everyone back to the land for a warming fire and feast and some good company. […]
On Thursday 1st October we were delighted to have guests from AECOM engineering with us working hard to help us to clear the pathway in Ten Acres. The whole group were amazing hard workers and a great laugh all round. We had a treat of daal, tikka masala, onion salad […]
Another beautiful day out and about litter picking in Ten Acres with a whopping 11 volunteer turnout! Amazing! We were joined by B37/Tribal bug/bird experts Kevin and Helen as well as volunteers (many of which were armed with thier own litter picking tools. We took a breaks in the woods […]
Today we did some litter picking along the grassy strip on the side of cartland road outside of ten acres as well as across the riverbrook meadow and from this one grass area managed to fill a whole bin bag! Top litter finds were: cigarette butts cig and tabacco packets […]
Today we spent a fantastic afternoon in the blazing hot sunshine down in Ten Acres getting the Himalayan Balsam under control with a small team of volunteers. Using the technique highlighted in our recent Balsam video we spent a solid 3 hours down by the river snapping and piling up […]
We wnet litter picking today with 3 volunteers from the local community who even turned up with thier own litter picking tools! (Now that’s commitment!). We also took along our youngest little helper lily to help us out pictured below and managed to get 2 bags fulls of littler again […]
We are currently opening up our volunteering opportunities for the Ten Acres woodland with the Friends of Ten Acres & Sustainable Life Voluntary Organisation. We have the following needs right now: Litter picking volunteers – OPENOrganised once a month roughly, up to 4 people at a time. Tools, bin bags, […]
We organised our very first volunteer litter picking session with social distancing in two groups of two. On Friday 12th June a team of 4 volunteers (including our trustee Stephanie, organising & participating) armed with litter pickers, gloves, sanitiser and bin bags wandered into the Woodland area of Ten Acres […]
