Thursday 19th February 2026 - There was a decided chill hanging in the air but the rain held off for a smaller contingent of volunteers as they carried out an assortment of different works at Wellfields West and North.
Beginning the activities just outside of the usual Wellfield West compound, two activities quickly became three. After installing approx 40 tree whips and re-instating some chestnut fencing a spot of litter clearance took on more epic proportions as the team extricated around six panels-worth of fly-tipped and heavily saturated fencing down an 45 degreed embankment.
After recuperating with a spot of lunch the team then made the short trip to Wellfield North, where clearing of fenceline Bramble and Clematis was undertaken, a raking to the shallow chalk dips on the site was carried out to remove nutrient build-up and a handful of tree were felled to allow light to flow into areas of grassland deprived of Sun when the foliage is out.
Tuesday 17th February 2026 - It was a type of miracle! the volunteers managed to complete a whole taskday without a spot of rain falling on them.
Working at Queen Mary's Woodland the team split into two division to tackle the days duties.
With approximately 140 trees to plant up, one of the divisions set about working their way through the central and Northern divisions of the Woods selecting the most open areas to refill as the other group set about liberating the Hazel coppice area from tangling Bramble.
Sunday 15th February - Not wanting their mid week comrades monopolising all the bad weather, today's team of volunteers enjoyed a good drenching as they continued to cut back bramble and snowberry on the edge if Roundshaw Downs.
Thursday 12th February 2026 - Apart from a couple of minutes of a downpour after lunch the band of volunteers had a pleasant day working in the Eastern half of Roundshaw Woods.
With a new batch of Tree whips in their mitts the team continued on with the work began last week, clearing back sprawling Bramble and a spot of Tree felling in select areas to counter the losses of the mature specimens in coming years.