A dozen volunteers from the Village Trust scoured the conservation area for litter this morning and managed to find plenty to collect. Though there appeared to be less litter than last year.
Archive for the ‘Conservation area’ Category
Annual Litter Pick
March 25, 2023Annual Litter Pick
April 10, 2021Thank you to the 10 volunteers from the Trust who helped with the annual litter pick this morning.
We had expected more litter, having cancelled last April’s litter pick due to Covid.
Blooming Funding Secured
March 27, 2021Thanks once again to our County Councillors, Peter & Stephen, for providing a grant from their Neighbourhood Budgets to continue planting up the tubs in the conservation area with bulbs and plants for spring and summer next year.
Here is a selection of photos showing some of the tubs in bloom this spring.
Flowers and Seats
August 2, 2020At the beginning of August the summer bedding in the tubs and barrier baskets were looking very colourful.
Also two new seats have been put in the ‘triangle’ to replace the deteriorating wooden seats. The bespoke design of the new seats commemorate the lives lost in the First World War and the industrial past of Shotley Bridge. They were paid for with the remaining S106 monies from the Story Homes housing development at the hospital.
Planting after the rain
June 10, 2020Last Sunday morning volunteers planted the summer bedding in the village, which had been postponed from the day before due to the wet and windy weather forecast. All the Trust’s tubs and planters were successfully planted with a mixture of Salvia, Geraniums, Dahlia, Petunia, Bidens and Lobelia from Beverages Nurseries.
Thank you to the 24 volunteers and to George Ledger for taking the photographs, who is currently trying to record the Covid-19 Lockdown and its affects on people locally. This year, to ensure social distancing, the committee of 6 decided to sort then transfer the plants to each of the tubs to make it safer for the volunteers to plant.
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