Art in the Park

3 Goodgymers helped their local community in Windsor and Maidenhead
Jess Smith
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Windsor and Maidenhead

Saturday 11th January

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On a lovely sunny, but chilly afternoon, Jess, Sol and Sheila joined other volunteers at Ray Mill Island for one of their weekly sessions. Jess was tasked with painting some signs on wood to direct people to the bird trail, several bird names and asking people to keep off the dry hedging. An excellent job she made of it, too! Meanwhile Sheila glued some pre-cut lettering onto some wood to acknowledge the contribution to the trail by the Craft Coop. She then moved on to helping Sol and others who were practicing the art of coppicing Sol was right in her element, using her forestry skills learnt in her childhood. The cut branches were sawed into lengths - the longest ones will be used as stakes for the dry hedging and the thinner ones will be used to weave in and out between the stakes. We can't wait to build the dry hedging, once the ground has unfrozen. An excellent afternoon's session on a beautiful day


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This is a Community led project, taking steps to enrich the island’s natural haven, by encouraging greater biodiversity of plants and wildlife for present and future generations to thrive.

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Amy L GoodGym
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Sun 12th Jan at 9:15am

Sounds like an excellent session! I really enjoyed reading this report 👏

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