On the 8/9/09 we worked down at Winnall Moors with the Youth Volunteering Officer, Jamie Corry.
We met at Winchester Train Station as usual, there were a number of volunteers. The task for the day was removing branches from the willow trees so they don’t absorb as much water from the marshes. It was a hot day and we worked hard, so the breaks were appreciated but we still had great fun!
The Viva Veolia end of project conference is coming up in Doncaster shortly and there was a young man out on site today (who is also a volunteer) making a documentary for it. He was filming several of us and recorded small nterviews with us asking us to talk about what we do, how long we’ve been doing it for, asking which sites we’ve each worked on and what sort of tasks we’ve been doing. I look forward to seeing the final film! Keep posted for details of where you can see it...
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Introduction
I have been volunteering for The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust for nearly three years now.
When I first started working with Jamie Corry I was attending Headway, a day centre for people recovering from head injuries. Jamie takes out a group from the centre to give them experience of everything from clearing rhododendrons to coppicing hazel.
After leaving Headway I saw Jamie by chance and offered to volunteer for The Wildlife Trust. Jamie took my phone number and said he’d get in touch. He later telephoned me and said he was taking some volunteers out in Winchester.
Along with a number of other volunteers I met Jamie the following day.
Jamie took us to Winnal Moors where The Trust was restoring The Moors to make them more accessible to the public.
Since then we’ve done lots of work at Winnal. We’ve cleared lots of undergrowth, we’ve also repinned the fencing around the Moors, they are now open to the public.
On the 31st of May I went to a Country Fair at Roydon Woods in The New Forest. We made Besom Brooms! And advertised what The Wildlife Trust do.
It was a successful day and we raised quite a bit of money.
We’ve also been too Bishopstoke Common and done a Butterfly count. We counted six different types of Butterfly.
Recently down at Copythorn Common we’ve fenced off squares of ground so that the livestock can not get at it. We’re trying to grow back more heather to make the site more of a moor land habitat.
When I first started working with Jamie Corry I was attending Headway, a day centre for people recovering from head injuries. Jamie takes out a group from the centre to give them experience of everything from clearing rhododendrons to coppicing hazel.
After leaving Headway I saw Jamie by chance and offered to volunteer for The Wildlife Trust. Jamie took my phone number and said he’d get in touch. He later telephoned me and said he was taking some volunteers out in Winchester.
Along with a number of other volunteers I met Jamie the following day.
Jamie took us to Winnal Moors where The Trust was restoring The Moors to make them more accessible to the public.
Since then we’ve done lots of work at Winnal. We’ve cleared lots of undergrowth, we’ve also repinned the fencing around the Moors, they are now open to the public.
On the 31st of May I went to a Country Fair at Roydon Woods in The New Forest. We made Besom Brooms! And advertised what The Wildlife Trust do.
It was a successful day and we raised quite a bit of money.
We’ve also been too Bishopstoke Common and done a Butterfly count. We counted six different types of Butterfly.
Recently down at Copythorn Common we’ve fenced off squares of ground so that the livestock can not get at it. We’re trying to grow back more heather to make the site more of a moor land habitat.
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