Tag Archives: volunteering
Hungry Like The Wolf
It’s that time of the month when we have a full moon. This one is called the Wolf Moon for some reason that I will delve into in a second. I don’t think that we have wolves here in the … Continue reading
Cold Moon
It feels like, another month, another full moon, and this week we witnessed the last full moon of the year. The Cold Moon, so called because it signifies the start of the long and chilly winter. The bitterly cold nights, … Continue reading
International Volunteer Day
This week we celebrate International Volunteer Day (5th of December). The day was set up by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985. It’s a day where volunteers are acknowledged and the spirit of volunteerism is promoted at the local, … Continue reading
A New Way To Support Us
We haven’t done any fund-raising for a while and looking in the Cawston Greenway petty-cash tin, all I can see is a few random pennies and a button that popped off my trousers after the first lockdown!! We have teamed … Continue reading
New bench with a cracker of a view
The nice thing about being a volunteer group, is that we are not under any time or financial pressure. We can think about stuff and hopefully do things that are a little more geared towards the long-term. With the new … Continue reading
Litter picked and snipped
It felt like we were never going to get to the end of our litter picking and snipping back sessions over the last few months. But we eventually got to the little triangle of light at the end. Everything is … Continue reading
Workshop Day
This was our much-awaited workshop day for young autistic adults. It was also creating our group seating area. Firstly, many thanks to the people who supported us with these two projects. We could not have done it without you. Chris, … Continue reading
Weekend Workday
We have our young adults with autism workshop, on Wednesday 4th March – more about this later. We had Matt, Tom, Mick, Marcus and myself on our weekender and we carried on chopping back the ground-ivy. It’s a tough job … Continue reading
All About the Violet
We used to have loads of Common Dog Violets in this area. Unfortunately, we have let the ivy get out of control and it has stopped just about everything else growing. It’s a lot harder to get the stuff up … Continue reading
More Benches
What a day!! Humping 20kg bags of postfix down a slippy and muddy path is no fun… But Marcus, Reece and myself persevered to make a new bench area around a small pond. We are putting them in too deep, … Continue reading
