Tag: volunteers

Conservation Day – Digging & Cutting

Tuesday's team comprised Friends of The Heath, Cheshire Wildlife Trust and a Knutsford Academy student. In total we had ten volunteers, sufficient to do two tasks. One group replaced rotten fence posts that mark the boundary between the reserve and the open grassland, while the other group cut and stacked brash along the boundary with Ladies Mile.... Continue Reading →

Conservation Day – Gorse Gone

Today's conservation work was successful and enjoyable thanks to the many volunteers and the fine sunny weather. The work party comprised three groups: Friends of The Heath (FoTH), Cheshire Wildlife Trust (CWT) and The Conservation Volunteers (TCV). The enthusiastic contributions of so many people meant we got through the work quickly. By the end we... Continue Reading →

Conservation Work Day Report

Thank you everyone for making our first conservation work day a success. We made good progress in clearing gorse from the around the sand pit and we'd have achieved more if the poor weather hadn't hampered us. By lunch time we were soaked through so had to stop. Today we cut back the gorse and... Continue Reading →

Clean Up The Heath – 21st June

Friends of The Heath are running another litter-pick event on Knutsford Heath on Sunday 21st June between 11am and 1pm. A group of like-minded volunteers will be roaming the site giving the area a good old clean-up. This is no small task, so if you can offer even a few minutes, then your help will... Continue Reading →

Kind-hearted Friends Install Bench

Three kind-hearted, dog-walking friends Gwen, Dorothy and Jenny have installed a bench on The Heath. They used to enjoy sitting on one that has long-since gone so they had the bright idea of replacing it and approached the land-owner.  Having been given permission, they enlisted the help of three Knutsford Academy students Sam, Michael and... Continue Reading →

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