Please contact the office if you are interested in volunteering and we will discuss details.
Task Reports
Conservation Work - Past
Bradford Urban Nature Reserve
We will be cutting and clearing paths to improve access as we haven't visited for a while and they are quite overgrown.
Depending how we get on, we may visit Bowling Park Orchard in the afternoon, so if you are planning to come along in the afternoon please let us know so we can keep in touch about where we are at.
Also, let us know if you would like a lift in the minibus from Culture Fusion at 10am.
Bowling Community Orchard
We will be at the orchard from 10.30-3.30 and tasks will include finishing painting the wooden structure Belvedere, before any climbers get in full swing for summer and building a basic frame for netting, to protect some of the fruit bushes.
If you would like a lift in the minibus please get in touch.
Stoney Ridge Plantation
Among the tasks we will be heeling in trees, clearing the site and staking some fallen trees.
For anyone driving there is parking on Long Lane, the road opposite ish the lodge.
If you'd like a lift in the minibus please get in touch. We will be leaving Culture Fusion at 10am.
Bowling Park Allotments
We will be completing our tidy up of Newby Primary School Allotments, tasks will mainly be hedge cutting, shifting gravel and weeding.
If you'd like to come along please get in touch.
Bowling Park Community Orchard Blossom Day
Bowling Park Community Orchard is looking particularly lovely at the moment with all the apple and pear blossoms.
We will be there for our volunteer task day, but we are also having an informal Blossom Day from 11-3pm. Feel free to pop in and take an opportunity to have some refreshments and relax and enjoy the ambience of the orchard in full bloom- hopefully!...
Bowling Park Allotments
We will be clearing an allotment for Newby Primary school, which will largely involve hedge cutting removing couch grass and preparing the site for the growing season.
Bowling Park Community Orchard and Allotments
We will be continuing our work at Bowling Park Allotments from 10.30-3.30, where we will be tidying up the community orchard, weeding paths and vegetable beds and feeding the trees, in preparation for Blossom Day on Friday 12th May and clearing an allotment for Newby Primary school, which will be largely removing couch grass and hedge cutting.
Bowling Park Allotments
We will be at Bowling Park Allotments from 10.30-3.30, where we will be tidying up the orchard, weeding paths and vegetable beds and feeding the trees and/or clearing an allotment for Newby Primary school, which will be largely removing couch grass and hedge cutting.
Please get in touch if you would like more info and be at Culture Fusion by 10am if you would like a lift there.
Northcliffe Park
This weeks' task is planting the last of our standard trees in Northcliffe Park and we have 4 silver birch and 3 rowan and 3 crabapple to get in.
Please get in touch if you would like a lift in the minibus.
Canterbury Nursery
In the morning we will be planting hedgerow trees and shrubs around the perimeter, (weather permitting).
We may move on to tree planting at St Joseph's Primary in the afternoon. (again weather permitting)