Programmes
Four programmes, one river valley.
Clean rivers
Monthly litter picks, a boat for the deeper stretches, and a water-testing kit that tells us which pipe to report.
Trees for streets
Native trees for schools, parks and field edges, with guards and a watering rota for the first summer.
Meadows
Mown grass turned back into meadow: seeded in autumn, cut and raked in August, left alone in between.
Hedgerows
Old hedges laid the traditional way in winter, so they thicken from the bottom for birds and hedgehogs.
Your first Saturday
No experience, no problem.
10.00Tea and a briefingWhat we are doing, why, and how not to hurt yourself doing it.
10.20Tools outGloves, grabbers, spades or loppers. Work at your own pace.
12.00Lunch on the grassBring your own; the tea keeps coming.
13.00Photo and homeA before-and-after, and a note of what we did for the log.
Common questions
The work
Where restoration will hold, not where it photographs well.
Planting days most weekends between October and March. Boots provided.
Yes, on restoration rather than on offsetting claims we cannot stand behind.
Saturdays
Bring wellies. We bring everything else.
Tools, gloves, tea and a proper briefing. Children welcome with a grown-up. If you cannot come, a gift buys the saplings and the skips.