Weekly update, 3rd October

Autumn has well and truly arrived and it's a busy old time... It's a bit of a bumper week for conservation groups next week - it's one of those funny months where the first Saturday and second Sunday of the month are in the same weekend so there's a double barrel of conservation goodness on the way! Plus it's the launch of our Environmental Leadership Scheme this week. 

Read on for all the latest news and have a fabulous week.

Hannah

Volunteering Development Manager

What the volunteers have been up to:

Thursday Group (Abingdon), 28th September

Last week, Adam and the group continued with the scything and raking of the grassland areas at Abbey Fishponds, focusing on Daisy Bank which runs through the centre of this enclosed little reserve. As we're moving into the autumn/winter work programme the team is going to be meeting every week, so the next session is 5th October.

Friday Group (Little Wittenham), 29th September

There was more scrub clearance on Castle Hill last week for George and the team, ensuring the ramparts keep looking like ramparts! Sturdy footwear was required as they are quite steep in parts. The next session is 6th October.

Autumn Water Festival, 1st October

A HUGE ginormous thank you to all of you who came and helped out on Sunday at the Autumn Water Festival. A lovely day was had by all and even the weather held out in the end so good work on the offerings to the sun gods folks! We really couldn't have done it without you! (I say that a lot but it's true...)

Coming up...

Environmental Leadership Scheme

Thanks for all your interest in this week’s launch of our Environmental Leadership Scheme. There’s lots happening on social media and our JustGiving page is now open for donations! We really hope you will support our work protecting important greenspaces and helping people connect to nature. 

It would be especially great if you lovely people would help us out with some 'micro-volunteering': by sharing, commenting and liking (or maybe even loving?!) our posts on Facebook, and retweeting on Twitter. It makes a huge difference to the numbers of people who can see our posts so please, if you do just one thing this week, help us expand our reach and share away!

You can also join in by posting a photo of yourself holding an 'I am an Environmental Leader' sign on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, using the hashtag #EnviroLeaders!