Category Archives: Work Party

December 1-3 (Click on any of the below photos to open a higher resolution version.) FROSTBITE! – Thankfully not, but winter certainly arrived for the December work party with heavy frost and cloudless skies on […]

November 3-5 (Click on any of the below photos to open a higher resolution version.) Shropshire has supposedly had the wettest October for 120 years. But unlike Canute, we just about succeeded in holding back […]

October 5-8 (Click on any of the below photos to open a higher resolution version.) As has been the case for so many of the work parties this year, a great variety of different tasks […]

September 1-3 What a difference a month makes. Summer is coming to an end yet the weather appears to have finally remembered what it should be doing. In warm, sunny and benign conditions a number […]

August 4-6 Wet Wet Wet! Possibly a slight exaggeration since we missed the very worst of Storm Antoni, though for those hardy volunteers present on Saturday a completely accurate description. But true to form, much […]

July 7-9 You win some, you lose some. After months of work parties with incredibly favourable weather, this time rain (almost) stopped play on Saturday and Sunday afternoons but great progress was still made. With […]

June 2-4 This report feels somewhat overshadowed by the all the events surrounding the official opening that have occurred over the same period. Much has been, and will be, written about this fabulous occasion so […]

May 5-8 Volunteer effort in May was spread across a wide variety of activities and experienced variable weather conditions. The one constant being the incredible output and progress made. Work commenced on the towpath improvements […]