Category Archives: Work Party

June 3-7 A very busy work party. 5 days, record volunteer numbers (again), multiple different activities. Apologies if this report is a little longer than normal. June was the second successive work party with two […]

April 29-May 3 Phase 2 is taking shape. Over 5 days a great deal was achieved. The normal work party pattern is three days over Friday to Sunday, but on this occasion, both Wednesday and […]

April 9-12 An eventful work party and records tumbled. This party was always going to be a busy one for several reasons. Nine volunteers attended on Thursday for a variety of preparatory tasks, thereby extending […]

March 6-8 Book ended. Aided by record volunteer numbers and favourable weather, the March work party saw several activities coming to an end and others starting. Saturday attendees numbered 31, the highest ever on this […]

February 6-8 Mud, glorious mud. This winter is characterised by persistent rainfall. The current area of site is generally well drained, but that counts for nowt when plant tracks over it. Heavy rainfall overnight on […]

January 9-11 “Snow stopped play” (on Friday). Although other areas fared far worse, the effects of Storm Goretti brought us different conditions each day: Friday snow; Saturday frosty but bright; Sunday cold, damp and breezy. […]

December 5-7 Muddy. The weather lately has been making up for the dry summer but we finish the year with a flourish. The main activities for the December work party were towpath construction, channel profiling […]

November 7-9 Works to March next year are supported by a grant from the Shared Prosperity Fund which covers channel restoration, towpath restoration and the winter environmental programme. This month saw the start of towpath […]

October 2-5 Although uncomfortably wet and windy at times, we were spared the worst of Storm Amy and much was achieved. As last month, the main work areas were Phase 2 (joining on from the […]