Newground Together Volunteers!

On Friday 16th October the Brookside Restoration Project was joined by volunteers from Newground Together (Blackburn branch).

We met at Brooksides new 'Volunteer Hub', an ideal hardstanding on the outskirts of the site, perfect for delivering events and organising volunteering activities. As part of the renovation, we have recently had a shipping container installed which will serve as the base of operations, with a compost loo soon to follow!

Before the installation of the compost loo, we thought it might be a good ideal to create some fencing which can be placed around it to provide more of a barrier for users, offering a bit more privacy!

In previous volunteer sessions we had harvested quite a lot of Hazel stems, so we thought why not put these to good use and make a traditional style Hazel Hurdle fence!

The volunteers from Newground Together utilised hatchets to fashion stakes from coppiced Hazel, and then selected choice pieces to weave the fence together! Everyone did a fantastic job and took readily to this age old practice! The fences came out looking great and we're sure that future volunteers (and yourselves!) will be appreciative of their efforts.

We look forward to working with Newground Together in the future!