Tolworth Brook, coppicing and rubbish removal, Tuesday February 4th, 2014

The Environment Trust's Kingston Greenspace Volunteers were back at Meldone Close along the Tolworth Brook in Berrylands to continue the job of coppicing a group of hazel trees. Some hazel was coppiced and will be used to extend the living and dead hedge started by Gerrard last year. Unfortunately, much of our time was taken up with removing rubbish dumped over a householder's back fence. Thankfully, Quadron Services provided us with a trailer in which to deposit the rubbish. Other rubbish was cleared from around the car park, which is a notorious area for fly-tipping. Hopefully, now most of the rubbish has been cleared away from the fence line, we can get on with the task of coppicing and creating a living hedge, when we're back here on March 4th. Please join us, if you can. 

Talking of Gerrard, after working with us for two years, he has finally found a full-time job working for an environmental consultancy based in the Nottingham area. We thank him for his hard work and enthusiasm while he was with the Environment Trust, and wish him best of luck 'up north!'

This also means, that there is a vacancy for a project assistant, to help organise our nature conservation volunteering activities, including working with schools and corporate volunteers. Please forward a CV and covering letter to Chris at chris.cockel@environmenttrust.co.uk.

Gerrard's hedge, still intact and looking good in the winter sun.

Rubbish dumped over a fence into the public area.

The mark on the fence is the height to which dumped grass clippings had reached. We were careful to make sure no hedgehogs were hibernating in the pile. 

A family who no longer needed seesaws, a trampoline, numerous balls, and an ornamental brick well.

 

Harlequin or native? 

Quadron's trailer was half filled with rubbish dumped over the fence of just one property.