Weekly update, 19th September

Good news from Community Reserves Warden Lucy this week: the memorial bench installed with the help of volunteers at Abbey Fishponds recently is already frequently being used by visitors - good work everyone!

Read on for our one big ask of the week... can you guess what it is?!

Have a great week,
Hannah
Volunteering Development Manager

What the volunteers have been up to:

Thursday Group (Abingdon), 14th September

For this session the team headed to Abbey Fishponds to work on the grassland areas. They used scythes to cut the grass before raking up.

Friday Group (Little Wittenham), 15th September

Scrub clearance continued on Castle Hill for another week. This is a long task but worth it to keep the Iron Age ramparts in good condition.

Coming up...

Water you doing on Sunday 1st October?

Can you believe it's just under two weeks till the Autumn Water Festival?! If you have Sunday 1st October going spare then we would love to have you on board helping out at this exciting day out. We're expecting double the number of visitors from the Summer Picnic so it's a big one! We'll need a small army of you brilliant lot to have fun with visitors and make it a day to remember. We'll need helping hands on children's craft and game activities, the running of the water rockets being launched across the Clumps, Poem Tree Cafe will be open for refreshments, admissions will need smiling faces to welcome visitors... there's something for everyone!

As with all our festival days, volunteers can expect to be part of a friendly and enthusiastic team. We'll feed you lunch on the day and keep everyone going with oodles of cups of tea and maybe even the odd biscuit. If you would like to be part of the fun, please drop me a line. We need you! If you have any preference to where you would like to be stationed do just let me know - we do our best to take that into account when getting the schedule sorted.