Weekly update, 16th January

How are we all? Splendid and dandy I hope. Thanks to all those who have already put their hands up for Lambing in March, you are my heroes! There's still plenty of room for more additions to the team so if you think you might be interested in helping out at our biggest event of the year, please let me know. 

This week marks the beginning of the campaign to make sure you still hear from us in May (if you would still like that to be the case!). Read on for more information, this one's really important...

Have a lovely week,

Hannah

Volunteering Development Manager

Coming up this week...

Thursday Group (Abingdon), 18th January

This week the group will be heading to Thrupp Lake to make a start on the biannual coppicing of the willow and silver birch compartments in one of the conservation areas. Don't forget your wellies as it's a bit wet underfoot! Meet at the metal vehicle gate into Little Homes Field, accessed via Tuckwell’s yard, at 10am; please let Lucy know if you can make it.

Friday Group (Little Wittenham), 19th January

The team will be heading into Little Wittenham Wood this Friday, carrying on from where Sunday Group left off on the annual coppicing around the woodland ponds. If you would like to join in please meet Adam outside the workshop just below the visitors car park at the Earth Trust Centre at 9am.

In other news

Would you like to keep hearing about volunteering? You need to tell us!

You may or may not be aware that there are new data protection regulations coming into play in May influencing how we communicate with our supporters. In a nutshell, you have greater control over what you hear about from your favourite charities so we need your explicit consent to send you anything. I would love it if all 500-odd of you lovely registered volunteers would like to continue to receive this bulletin but I need your permission to send it to you after May, so we're making sure that if you'd like to hear from us at all, you've told us. Those are the new rules! 

All you need to do to stay on the mailing list is head to this very quick form and make sure you say yes to the Volunteer Bulletin. There are also other opportunities to hear about all the exciting work done at the Earth Trust. Of course if you would prefer to no longer receive the emails you can always hit unsubscribe at the bottom at any time or tell us via the form.

Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. Thank you!

Good news for young volunteers!

We've had a lot of enquiries over the last year from young people who would like to join the conservation groups, a lot of whom are working towards their Duke of Edinburgh. You may remember us advertising for a volunteer role before Christmas to help us alleviate our problem of not having the capacity to welcome younger volunteers that would keep everyone safe and looked after. Well, we now have a lovely couple of volunteer leaders ready to come along to Sunday Group (second Sunday of the month)! This means that anyone from the age of 14 and up who would like to come and have a go at some conservation volunteering on a Sunday are most welcome to join. Hooray! Drop me a line if you know a young person who'd like to come along.