The ‘Wildlife’ area is progressing well, trees along the Churchfields School boundary have been planted and the construction of the ‘hide’ has been completed and is about to be given a protective coating.

What about the river banks? Having contacted the water authority re-questing they clear the banks of brambles and weeds, it would seem this is our responsibility. The good news is that the Environment Agency will visit us twice a year for the next three years to poison and hopefully eradicate the Japanese knot weed.

We are about to offer Churchfields School their own plot. The teacher-in-charge, Miss Kim Miller, is to be invited to choose a plot from those that are available and begin to or-ganise groups of children to cultivate the land.

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