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With today's work session falling on Easter Sunday, the turnout was understandably low with just 4 hardy souls attending. Nevertheless we still managed to get all the priority jobs accomplished. These were:
Splitting up the snowdrops to cover a larger area at the Alexandrina Plantation entrance.
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Due to heavy snow today's work session was regettably cancelled, but here's a couple of photos.....
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Luckily after a very wet week today was dry and also quite sunny. The cold weather didn't seem to put anyone off and we had 13 members attending.
Two of us installed an additional step near the viewpoint where soil erosion had meant that the first step had become quite steep and we also did a bit...
Following the decision to cease holding regular meetings and produce quarterly newsletters instead, you can download the latest newsletter from the Friends here.
Featured in this issue:
- Work Session Report October to December 2017
- Green Flag Community Award 2017/2018 and 2018/2019
- Duke of...
Today was the first dry day of the week (and 2018) and on a sunny but cold morning we had a good turnout of 12 members which included another new member.
Usually in January we have always used this session for the big litter pick and the Council have collected the rubbish the following day. Havin...
We had another excellent turnout with 16 volunteers attending this morning's session.
Most of the group concentrated on clearing the bridle path now that most of the leaves are off the trees. The leaves are swept into piles and then moved onto large tarpaulin sheets before being transferred into...
Notes of AGM Meeting held on Monday 6th November 2017 at 7:30pm at Bramcote Memorial Hall.
25 members present. Apologies from Stan Heptinstall, Viv Chamberlain. Norman Clyde-Watson was in the Chair.
1. Matters Arising from AGM 2016
- Tree stumps on the left of the path, Markham Road site, hav...
A perfect autumn morning saw our best turnout of the year with 18 people coming along, including one young person undertaking his Duke of Edinburgh bronze award accompanied by his mother.
Today had been set aside for the planting of 1700 crocus corms, some of which had been given to us by Woll...
Following the decision to cease holding regular meetings and produce quarterly newsletters instead, you can download the latest newsletter from the Friends here.
Featured in this issue:
- Another Award for Our Group
- The Wildflower Areas
- Work Session Report July to September 2017
- Crocus Bu...
A very damp October morning saw seven hardy folks attending today's work session.
- Three days ago some very antisocial person (or persons) had a fire on the edge of the football pitch and burnt a lot of metal cans, a couple of metal rods and then poured purple paint over the lot. It took one memb...
