Saturday 6^th February

We met in the Copse near to the New Guided bus way.

We had a great time and found out that team work really does work when you are trying to remove hugh lengths of ivy and carry them away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We collected piles of rubbish (lots of undelivered news paper rounds!)

 

 

We also helped to weed and mulch the hedge which was planted 3 years ago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 13^th February

Again we met up at the copse in a snow storm!

We removed more ivy and litter.

Then we cleared the area of weeds and ivy from around the marker canes ,dug a hole in the middle, after this we fetched half a wheel barrow full of compost – then we were ready to collect a tree, stake and guard ready to plant our trees.

 

Community

Action.

On Saturday 16^th January Histon Guides met wrapped up warmly at the entrance to The Dole on the B1049.

Today they are starting work on their Community Action Badge for which they have to complete a minimum of 12 hours service. The topic of the badge is ‘Action for the Local Environment’.

Despite the rain a good turnout of volunteers and some parents joined the village Environment Group; the girls helped collect litter removed ivy from the trees in the area and dug up ivy roots.

The girls mastered the use of spades, folks, secateurs, brooms and litter pickers and all worked very well and enjoyed themselves in the wet.

Half way through the morning we broke off of hot chocolate and biscuits.

This was a fantastic beginning to our badge work.