Tuesday 12th May 2026 - It was a bright day with a bit of a cooling twist in the air as the large assembly of a team were boosted by the arrival of a new volunteer.
Beginning activities at the Wellfield complex of sites, the team spanned the periphery of both Wellfields East and West for the morning, brush-cutting the surrounding verges, trimming out self seeded Sycamore and Cherry Laurel regrowth along the pathway and attending to the tree whips planted around the first weeks of the year, clearing away a span of competing vegetation from around them all and giving them a good gulp of water.
Moving to Queen Marys Woodland via a sojourn at Wellfield South to pluck some Everlasting Pea, the team continued on with a spot more brush-cutting to the central ride, tended to this sites tree whips and weeded out emergences of undesirables such as Creeping Thistle from the Wood Pasture area.
Thursday 7th May 2026 - For the third Thursday in a row a slightly smaller team worked at Beddington Park concentrating their efforts on the London Road meadow.
With a seemingly permanent band of dark grey cloud overhead the squad got to work selectively mowing the meadow to preserve desired species coming through in abundance whilst tackling areas of grassland and scrub edges festooned with self seeded Poplar and obligatory Bramble.
Tuesday 5th May 2026 - With a rounded team of volunteers out activities could cover three sites, Queen Mary's Park, Wellfield North and Corrigan Rec.
Gathering the whole team at Q.M.P, the surrounding grass of the Butterfly Bank received a brushcutting to encourage species migration from the bank to the wider area whilst the remaining team worked on the adjacent scrub islands to combat Bramble spread, weeded out the more prolific botanicals coming through and popped out self seeded saplings from the edges of the nature areas grassland.
Briefly moving as a whole collective to Wellfield until lunch the team then divided, those staying pushing their way along the Northern boundary clearing a dense barricade of Bramble and Nettles to get the buffer strip clear again. The other half of the squad were soon travelling to Corrigan Rec where two more Butterfly Banks awaited them for more surrounding grass cutting, undesirable weeding and marker post installations.
If you are busy this coming bank holiday weekend and the weather is putting you off, why not book up for the free event taking place at Beddington Farmlands on Saturday 9th May.
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Thursday 30th April 2026 - The Sun was beaming down with full force as the large team of volunteers set about work in another of sector of Beddington Park.
Working in the fenced off area of Wet grassland, grabbing shade where possible the team set about pushing back a margin of Bramble from its encroachment onto the grassland as well as brushcutting a number of smaller areas of rank grass to encourage the emergence of more diminutive species.
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