Tuesday 10th February 2026 - The SNCV team were joined by four other entities to form one colossal supergroup for todays activities hailing from Revesby Woods.
Merging with the Tree Wardens team, the Friends of Poulter Park and Revesby Woods group, corporate volunteers from Veolia plus a bit of mechanical muscle-power from id Verde, the ensemble spent the day carrying out a thorough picking up of litter and fly-tipping strewn around and in the woods as well as some more thinning out of mature and congested Blackthorn.
Thursday 5th February 2026 - The volunteers were back at Roundshaw Woods and surprisingly the wet weather kept itself to a minimum.
Pushing into the Eastern half of the woods on todays outing, the first task of the day was the creation of some more dead-hedging to deter trampling into the woods by so many paths.
Once finished with the creation of the barricades, the team moved further in and devoted the rest of their time to some tree felling and Bramble and Holly clearance in glades that had been planted up in recent years.
Tuesday 3rd February 2026 - It was a day of constant drizzle for the small but determined team of volunteers as they paid Wellfield East a visit.
Following on from the grazing, todays activities involved a tidying up of the grassland with a brushcut to the remaining hard-heads of Knapweed left standing and a spot of selected thinning to maturing Blackthorn and crowded stands of Hazel.
With an abundance of woody material to dispose of, the soon bulky dead-hedging around the compost heap got a few more meters expansion necessitating a substantial cutting back of a thicket of Bramble to boot.
Thursday 29th January 2026 -The sky was slightly grey looking but the rain was nowhere in sight for todays fairly large team working at Carshalton Road Pastures.
With a number of objectives on the schedule the volunteers kicked off with a spot of tree whip planting along the Eastern boundary in the ongoing efforts to create a diverse native tree hedgeline for the future, as this was progressing the brushcutter made short work of clearing the nearby chalk scrapes ready for a new years wildflower growth.
Just before midday the team then moved on to the South flank of the site and finished up the day planting another batch of whips to restock the slowly degrading mature trees, cleared away a fallen dead tree festooned with a cocoon of Ivy, brushcut a section of path edges and amassed a sizable quantity of fly tipped waste adjacent to the roadside tree-line.
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