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October 2019
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS – The Conservation Group will be carrying out practical conservation activities on various sites in Hyndburn including the eight Lancashire County Council woodlands in Hyndburn. Wear warm, old clothes and sensible, strong shoes or boots. Bring a packed lunch and waterproof clothing. We provide tools, gloves, materials and hot drinks. You provide Roger with a mobile number and he will text the details of the tasks and the meeting point in advance. For more information phone Roger Plum,…
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WOODY (Hyndburn’s woodland social enterprise). A group of volunteers known as Woody do woodland management activities in various woodlands around the borough. They work at The Coppice, Woodnook Vale & Whinney Hill green space areas. Activities vary each month/season so please contact Mike to find out more about their planned activities. As it is now Autumn we will concentrate on making things out of wood and start our woodland management programme. Anyone interested must book as volunteers need to wear appropriate PPE and…
Find out more »CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS – The Conservation Group will be carrying out practical conservation activities on various sites in Hyndburn including the eight Lancashire County Council woodlands in Hyndburn. Wear warm, old clothes and sensible, strong shoes or boots. Bring a packed lunch and waterproof clothing. We provide tools, gloves, materials and hot drinks. You provide Roger with a mobile number and he will text the details of the tasks and the meeting point in advance. For more information phone Roger Plum,…
Find out more »WOODY (at Whinney Hill)
WOODY is the name of our woodland social enterprise. Set up by Prospects in 2012 it is run by volunteers who look after and manage local woodlands in Hyndburn. This week we'll be continuing to install our rather impressive flight of steps from the bottom path up to the new butterfly meadow. There was already a desire line path but it was always wet, slippy and somewhat dangerous to use which put people off from visiting the meadow. Throughout the…
Find out more »CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS – The Conservation Group will be carrying out practical conservation activities on various sites in Hyndburn including the eight Lancashire County Council woodlands in Hyndburn. Wear warm, old clothes and sensible, strong shoes or boots. Bring a packed lunch and waterproof clothing. We provide tools, gloves, materials and hot drinks. You provide Roger with a mobile number and he will text the details of the tasks and the meeting point in advance. For more information phone Roger Plum,…
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WOODY (at Whinney Hill)
WOODY is the name of our woodland social enterprise. Set up by Prospects in 2012 it is run by volunteers who look after and manage local woodlands in Hyndburn. This week we'll be continuing to install our rather impressive flight of steps from the bottom path up to the new butterfly meadow. There was already a desire line path but it was always wet, slippy and somewhat dangerous to use which put people off from visiting the meadow. Throughout the…
Find out more »CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS – The Conservation Group will be carrying out practical conservation activities on various sites in Hyndburn including the eight Lancashire County Council woodlands in Hyndburn. Wear warm, old clothes and sensible, strong shoes or boots. Bring a packed lunch and waterproof clothing. We provide tools, gloves, materials and hot drinks. You provide Roger with a mobile number and he will text the details of the tasks and the meeting point in advance. For more information phone Roger Plum, 01254 230348,…
Find out more »CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS – The Conservation Group will be carrying out practical conservation activities on various sites in Hyndburn including the eight Lancashire County Council woodlands in Hyndburn. Wear warm, old clothes and sensible, strong shoes or boots. Bring a packed lunch and waterproof clothing. We provide tools, gloves, materials and hot drinks. You provide Roger with a mobile number and he will text the details of the tasks and the meeting point in advance. For more information phone Roger Plum, 01254 230348,…
Find out more »WOODY (at Lonsdale Street)
WOODY is the name of our woodland social enterprise. Set up by Prospects in 2012 it is run by volunteers who look after and manage local woodlands in Hyndburn. This week we’ll be cutting back vegetation and alder regeneration along the black path in Accrington. This is the path that runs alongside the Accrington to Church & Oswaldtwistle Railway line. We'll be meeting at 10.00am on Lonsdale Street underneath the Railway bridge. Click HERE to see a Google Map view of…
Find out more »CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS – The Conservation Group will be carrying out practical conservation activities on various sites in Hyndburn including the eight Lancashire County Council woodlands in Hyndburn. Wear warm, old clothes and sensible, strong shoes or boots. Bring a packed lunch and waterproof clothing. We provide tools, gloves, materials and hot drinks. You provide Roger with a mobile number and he will text the details of the tasks and the meeting point in advance. For more information phone Roger Plum, 01254 230348,…
Find out more »CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS – The Conservation Group will be carrying out practical conservation activities on various sites in Hyndburn including the eight Lancashire County Council woodlands in Hyndburn. Wear warm, old clothes and sensible, strong shoes or boots. Bring a packed lunch and waterproof clothing. We provide tools, gloves, materials and hot drinks. You provide Roger with a mobile number and he will text the details of the tasks and the meeting point in advance. For more information phone Roger Plum, 01254 230348,…
Find out more »WOODY (at Rothwell Heights)
Woody, our woodland management social enterprise will be working up at a Forest School site at Rothwell Heights in Accrington. The site is predominately Ash woodland and the intention by the Borough Council which owns the site is to gradually increase the diversity of the trees in the woodland as Ash dieback starts to have an effect. Unfortunately, if the woodland isn't managed then all the Ash trees may eventually go. On Friday we will be thinning some of the…
Find out more »CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS – The Conservation Group will be carrying out practical conservation activities on various sites in Hyndburn including the eight Lancashire County Council woodlands in Hyndburn. Wear warm, old clothes and sensible, strong shoes or boots. Bring a packed lunch and waterproof clothing. We provide tools, gloves, materials and hot drinks. You provide Roger with a mobile number and he will text the details of the tasks and the meeting point in advance. For more information phone Roger Plum, 01254 230348,…
Find out more »CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS – The Conservation Group will be carrying out practical conservation activities on various sites in Hyndburn including the eight Lancashire County Council woodlands in Hyndburn. Wear warm, old clothes and sensible, strong shoes or boots. Bring a packed lunch and waterproof clothing. We provide tools, gloves, materials and hot drinks. You provide Roger with a mobile number and he will text the details of the tasks and the meeting point in advance. For more information phone Roger Plum, 01254 230348,…
Find out more »WOODY (at Clayton Forest Park)
Woody, our woodland management social enterprise will be working out in a woodland today. This week we'll be thinning the Larch plantation at Clayton Forest Park (also known as Wilson's Playing Fields) which is at the end of Clayton Hall Drive, Clayton-le-Moors. You can also access the site from the bottom of Bell Lane, off Burnley Road. We'll be meeting at 9.30am in the Car Park of the Wilson's Playing Fields Changing Rooms (see location map below). Please wear appropriate…
Find out more »ROTHWELL HEIGHTS FOREST SCHOOL TREE PLANTING
As part of National Tree Week we will be hosting a tree and shrub planting event within the Forest School site at Rothwell Heights which is at the top of Willows Lane in Accrington. The site is opposite the KCL Garage just before you reach the hamlet of Bedlam. Please copy and paste the link below into Google for a map of the location. https://goo.gl/maps/DtV7qkidMP59dJ2A8 The event will start at 10.00am and finish at 3.00pm, or when all the trees…
Find out more »CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS – The Conservation Group will be carrying out practical conservation activities on various sites in Hyndburn including the eight Lancashire County Council woodlands in Hyndburn. Wear warm, old clothes and sensible, strong shoes or boots. Bring a packed lunch and waterproof clothing. We provide tools, gloves, materials and hot drinks. You provide Roger with a mobile number and he will text the details of the tasks and the meeting point in advance. For more information phone Roger Plum, 01254 230348,…
Find out more »CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS
CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS – The Conservation Group will be carrying out practical conservation activities on various sites in Hyndburn including the eight Lancashire County Council woodlands in Hyndburn. Wear warm, old clothes and sensible, strong shoes or boots. Bring a packed lunch and waterproof clothing. We provide tools, gloves, materials and hot drinks. You provide Roger with a mobile number and he will text the details of the tasks and the meeting point in advance. For more information phone Roger Plum, 01254 230348,…
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