Weekly update, 9th January

Hope you're all doing well! The photo above is a snap of Thursday Group getting back to it last week, many thanks to all who came along. Sunday Group is back this weekend so if you fancy joining in, meet Adam at the workshop next to the Centre car park at 9am.

Have a lovely week,

Hannah
Volunteering Development Manager

What the volunteers have been up to:

Thursday Group (Abingdon), 4th January and Saturday Group, 6th January

The groups got stuck into working off all those mince pies by starting the annual cutting of the reedbed at Abbey Fishponds, as well as fen cutting and lots of raking - wellies were a must! The next sessions are 11th January for Thursday Group and 3rd February for Saturday Group.

Coming up...

Lambing!

That's right, before we know it Lambing 2018 will be upon us and you know what that means, a HUGE call to arms for as many volunteers as possible to lend a hand on what will be the busiest four days of our year! 

The dates are: 17th-18th March and 24th-25th March, from around 9am until 5pm.

We really do need as much help as possible over these weekends. We need volunteers across the entire site including on admissions, children's crafts and activities, Poem Tree Cafe and information points. We feed everyone a hearty lunch on these days to keep everyone going and keep you topped up with all the tea and coffee you can manage!

These are really great days and everyone is part of the team. It's a great one for meeting people, engaging with the public and getting stuck in with something maybe a little different from the usual.

Please do drop me a line if you are able to make any of the dates. At this stage I'm making lists so more info will get sent out as time goes on but it would be brilliant to start taking names so I can get some sleep between now and then! Everyone who came along last year was bloomin' brilliant and we'd love to have the same again this year.