Category: Working Parties

With the early morning rain, the day didn’t look too promising, but the hardy volunteers were not to be deterred and fortunately the rain held off. Numbers were down due to holidays and family & work commitments, but increased by Victoria and Chris joining us for the first time. Victoria finding us via a Google…

The Beggarwood Wildlife Group were hard at work on Tuesday 5th May. The weather not as glorious as our last outing but warm and, importantly, dry! We split into 3 groups to attack different areas of the park, our aim as always to keep it useable for our community and to encourage more wildlife into…

Our intrepid adventurers gathered near the Beggarwood café early on Tuesday morning somewhat disconcerted by the strange weather patterns. A yellow orb radiated heat and a deep blue arched overhead. Could this really be the start of summer? It was an unusual combination for a day during the Easter holidays, generally more damp, grey and…

Our second visit to Down Grange to assist Steve and Marion was attended by 8 willing and able volunteers. The tasks for the day included clearing and tidying fallen branches, bramble cutting and blackthorn popping. The morning was quite breezy but the location for our tasks was fairly sheltered.

A mild fine spring morning met the group ready to get stuck into the mornings tasks. Kevin was welcomed as a potential new member of the team before tools were loaded into a wheelbarrow and 8 volunteers headed out towards the play area to a patch of brambles and dogwood to be cleared. Many hands…

The ‘Magnificent Seven’ rolled into town, undeterred by the inclement weather ready to get stuck in to the tasks laid out by Sheriff Ildi.

The ‘Magnificent Seven’ rolled into town, undeterred by the inclement weather ready to get stuck in to the tasks laid out by Sheriff Ildi.

The members of the Beggarwood wildlife group met on the first Tuesday of January, for the first working party of 2026. The group were several members short this month due to circumstance and ill health. Linda was ‘stuck’ in sunny Egypt due to a flight cancellation and both Roy and our leader Ildi were unwell.…

After the wind and rain of the previous days, the working party were blessed with a dry and eventually warm, sunny morning when they met for the last working party of 2025. The volunteers split up into four groups for each of the morning’s tasks; coppicing, dead hedge repair, Dogwood removal and litter picking. The…

Despite it being such a busy time of year, sandwiched between the traditional firework night activities and the not so traditional trick and treating of Halloween, the Beggarwood volunteers still managed to fit in a working party for November, with their numbers swollen by the help of four members of staff from Newbury Building Society.…