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Reminder
We are having our summer break now, until we begin again with drystone walling on 20 July. Get well, Maggie, to ensure that you're ready for walling in July! ~~~~~~~~ Any ideas for marking our 25th anniversary next year will be welcome! ~~~~~~~~ Have a look at the BTCV national website where you can watch an interesting 10 minute video spoken by David Attenborough and some BTCV volunteers who talk about their reasons for wanting to be conservation volunteers and the enjoyment they get out of it. It is based around work at Hollybush Farm, near Leeds.
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LDCV is a Winner!!!
LDCV is a winner of BTCV's Green Heroes Awards 2008, for the category BTCV Community Group of the Year in the North West and North East regions!!! As regional winners we have been given an award certificate, free tee-shirts and a £30 token to spend on plants available from BTCV.
At Great Wood on Sunday 15 June, Kevin Jones, Operations Director Northern England (BTCV), presented the certificate to the group. Well done everyone!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lancaster District Council for Voluntary Service presented their Volunteer Achievement Awards 2008 at the Dolly Blue Tavern, Giant Axe, Lancaster, on Wednesday 4 June, as public recognition for voluntary effort. Laurie and Sylvia represented LDCV, on the basis of their length of service and amount of conservation work achieved over the years in all weathers!
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Open season on drystone walling We began our new work programme on Sunday 27th April with a training day for new volunteers on building drystone walls. Over the summer, we are working in Silverdale both for a local farmer and the National Trust, with the twin aims of repairing gaps in the existing boundary walls and developing walling skills amongst the volunteers. These walls are important landscape and habitat features, particularly within the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
This first event was part of a five-month campaign called CSV Action Earth supported by Morrison's supermarkets. The campaign is organised by the national charity Community Service Volunteers (CSV) and involves over 900 voluntary organisations, businesses and community groups that are undertaking projects across the country that are of immediate and lasting benefit to the environment.
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