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Saturday July 22nd

We will be at the ‘Red Kite play day’ with a gazebo near the entrance to the reserve. It will be a great family day, and we’ll have stuff for kids to do and promote the Cuttlebrook reserve so do come along and say hello.

Workparty Sunday July 16th

Our July work party will be this Sunday July 16th at 10am (meet at the Scout Hut car park OX9 2DZ).

Tasks will be

Annual butterfly survey

Finding and removing any Himalayan Balsam, Ragwort, Japanese Knotweed or Giant Hogweed

Larvae and fish sampling in the brook and collecting water samples for chemical analysis

Cutting nettles, mowing paths and pruning low branches

Work party 18 June 2017

Sunday 18th June at 10 am (meet at the Scout car park). It will include our annual meadow plant survey, as well as nettle bashing and water bug sampling

Work party 21st May 2017

There will actually be two events ; if you are an early riser, we will be holding our annual common-bird survey starting at 5:30am.

Otherwise, our normal Sunday start will be at 10:00am meeting at the Scout Hut car park for what is usually a varied mix of vegetation management, paths maintenance and wildlife monitoring.

Work party on Sunday 9th April 2017

Our April Cuttlebrook work party will be a WEEK EARLIER than usual, because Easter is on the 3rd Sunday this month.
We will meet at 10am in the Scout hut car park.

Sunday 19 March work party

Meet at 10am. Tasks include cutting back the blackthorn and brambles in the “triangle” near the Phoenix Trail, and the usual chemical and invertebrate / bug water-sampling.

Updated plan for Sunday 19th Feb

Start at 10am. Additional job – We now have the plastic pipe (100 metres of it) which will feed the pond from the man-hole on the hill to prevent it drying out every Summer. The pipe will need to be buried in a shallow but fairly long trench.

Please come if you can (many hands etc), and bring your garden spade(s) if possible. Picks and mattocks may also help.

Sunday 19th February 2017 workparty

Meet at 10am in the Scout Hut car park, Southern Road. Bring warm, tough clothes and boots. If you have favourite gloves, loppers and saws then please bring them too, or you can use ours. We will be working on trees and scrub to get the habitat right.

January work party

Our first 2017 workparty will be next Sunday 15th January. This will involve tree work (pruning, coppicing and felling). We meet by the Scout Hut at 10am.

Sunday 16th October work party

Next volunteer work party will meet at 10.00am at the Scout Hut car park in Southern Road. Jobs may include cutting the important sedge and reed beds to keep them in good condition.