my big voluntary project

[testcricket01]

had spare few hours today so went over to get stuck into my little project im doing for my local village its only the 2nd time ive been over there so far. its some old brick pits that got turned into a wild life habitat place, they first started clearing it before i was born in the 1980s they were still doing it in the 1990s i used to go up there as a kid with my dad to help the locals clear it all. to cut a long story short we had cleared most of the site and layed down shells to make paths, planted trees. then people died, people moved away and it has been left for 15years there or there abouts. theres a main path that goes all the way through the edge of it which is very overgrown, but other than that no paths are now visible so im making my own paths as i go. my dad loves birds and all that and the parish council wanted to get something done about the place so i offered my services its nice to get stuck into it, i think back to the times i had in there when i was a kid. its nice to get it opened up again for the next generation of kids to muck about in

 

more pics to follow as i get more done.

[easy-lift guy]

Nice of you to give back or pay forward for the future.

easy-lift guy

[Mortimer Firewood]

You just want some where to play with the quad.

[Treemoose]

Looks satisfying mate

Be nice to see some pics if the progress as and when you get round to doing it

[Andy Collins]

Nice one! I'm a trustee on a charitable trust doing a similar project, except ours was a bare field to start. Try and get a small work party together, involve the community and it'll come on in leaps and bounds. We now have a work party of around a dozen people from all walks of life, we cut the wild flower area with an old David Brown and finger bar mower, I maintain the paths. Others do te there time and skills in their professions, such as printing to produce a calendar to raise funds to keep it running. I sell off wood chip to fund new trees guards and stakes. Every little helps.

[testcricket01]

Cheers guys it is satisfiying you have a complete mess and few hours later you make a few paths clear a area and looks hundred times better! Being somewhere to ride my quad is just a perk of doing it

 

Andy its good that some people do the same thing helping the future thats how we used to do it when i was a kid in work partys with the locals only trouble is they would need to be weekends which i can do with football etc but once i get the bulk done myself and actually get into the main area people can go in there and do there bit as and when.

[Andy Collins]

Agreed, once a month we draw up a list of jobs to be done, these are circulated to all the interested parties to do as and when, machinery needs coordination and safety, so that's done when people are out of the way. You need a loose kind of organisation though, so you can move forward rather than run in circles. We got hold of an old wooden bus shelter to do up and make a small info centre/shelter, installed a timber henge from an oak stump that was cut vertically into segments and "exploded" outwards, and recently put benches around for people to sit and eat at. It works well, we get little littering to date, if there is any it's cleared by the volunteers to keep it tidy. We now have wild bee orchids and pyramid orchids amongst the wild flowers that have invaded, after about 8 years of naturalising.

[testcricket01]

Agreed, once a month we draw up a list of jobs to be done, these are circulated to all the interested parties to do as and when, machinery needs coordination and safety, so that's done when people are out of the way. You need a loose kind of organisation though, so you can move forward rather than run in circles. We got hold of an old wooden bus shelter to do up and make a small info centre/shelter, installed a timber henge from an oak stump that was cut vertically into segments and "exploded" outwards, and recently put benches around for people to sit and eat at. It works well, we get little littering to date, if there is any it's cleared by the volunteers to keep it tidy. We now have wild bee orchids and pyramid orchids amongst the wild flowers that have invaded, after about 8 years of naturalising.

 

Sounds a nice place and great project to be involved in im hopeing this will go the same way to where it should have got to in the first place with benches maybe bird hide and kept tidy turn it from nothing into a village space.

[Bassett]

You just want some where to play with the quad.

 

Nice 1

 

In all seriousness, congrats on giving back to the community. I'll look forward to more updates in future.

[Rich2484]

It's nice to give a little back now and again.

 

One thing bugging me tho. How do you carry anything in that toy quad??.