Events

Coming to one of our work parties? Wear sturdy shoes, long trousers and work gloves. We provide tools like shears, clippers and litter pickers, plus some longer, thick gloves for thorny work. We usually stop midway for a tea and coffee break.

  • Work Party Cotefield Drive

    Cotefield Drive Cotefield Drive, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    We’ll be working by the brook weeding and digging up nettles.

  • Work Party Riverside Walk

    Riverside Walk Millbank, Riverside Walk, Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom

    We’ll be digging up  willow herb and brambles, weeding around the trees  and doing some planting

  • Work party – Vandyke Curve

    Narrow Gauge Railway, Vandyke Curve Vandyke Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    We’ll be digging up some grass and sowing wildflower  seeds,  weeding around the existing emerging wildflowers, removing brambles – and watching wildlife! We’ve seen a group of solitary bees looking for nests in the sandy ground.   To get to Vandyke curve  you either cycle or walk  up vandyke road  to very   close to Vandyke school […]

  • Work party – Vandyke Curve

    Narrow Gauge Railway, Vandyke Curve Vandyke Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    We’ll be weeding and digging up some of the grass to sow wildflower seed. There are a lot of wildflowers emerging but also some areas where the grass roots have taken hold and need digging up. In other areas we just need to pick off some of the tansy to allow the light onto the […]

  • Work party – River Ouzel

    River Ouzel Leighton Road, Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom

    We’ll will be at the river opposite Leighton Middle School where we will be cutting back the willow, weeding out nettles and admiring what is growing. You get to the area from the pre-entrance to the travelling showman site by the falling down building with fencing around it.

  • Work party – Riverside Walk

    Riverside Walk Millbank, Riverside Walk, Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom

    We’ll be tending our trees and shrubs, litter picking,  cutting back and digging up nettles. 

  • Work party – Cotefield Drive

    Cotefield Drive Cotefield Drive, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    We’ll be tending the wonderful range of flowers (51 different species)  that Liz has got  growing along the bank of the brook – a mixture of  weeding, removing nettles and clearing the path.

  • Work party – Leighton Buzzard station

    Leighton Buzzard Station Station Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    We’ll be weeding around the wildflowers on Platform 1 and doing some bramble bashing

  • Work party – Riverside Walk

    Riverside Walk Millbank, Riverside Walk, Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom

    We’ll be removing Himalayan Balsam.