Volunteer
The Friends of Halsey Field
We need volunteers to help us manage a beautiful nature reserve in Gadebridge
The site is full of wildflowers, including 3 different species of orchid and many flowering and berry bearing bushes, from early spring through to late autumn, and we need volunteers to help us manage the site. This involves mowing and raking some of the grassy areas throughout the autumn and winter months, to encourage more wildflowers to grow next spring, keeping the paths clear of vegetation, pruning and cutting down some of the bushes, to ensure fresh growth when they grow again. We work from 10am till 1pm with a coffee break with home made cakes at 11.30am.
Environmental
Conservation
No special skills are necessary for volunteering. Volunteers need to be reasonably fit, and should be able to follow instructions and work as a team member. All tools for the various tasks are supplied and instructions are given on how to use them. There are possibilities of further formal training, such as first aid, hedge trimming, brush cutting etc. for keen volunteers.
The enjoyment of working in the fresh air all morning with a pleasant, sociable group of people. The work helps to keep you moderately fit in a lovely setting, and you will have the satisfaction knowing that you are helping to increase the biodiverstiy in Dacorum, while you are learning new skills.
Volunteers need to come once a month from 9.50am to 1pm, usually on Sundays, though some volunteering possibilities do occur on some Saturdays or occasionally during the week .
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The Halsey Field, off Fennycroft Road, Gadebridge Hemel Hempstead (What3words ///museum.bottle.store) Halsey Field doesn't have a post code, but is on Google maps.
Get off the bus or park at Gadebridge shops (Rossgate) or in Fennycroft Road (off Galley Hill). Walk up Fennycroft Road until you come to a bend in the road with garages on the right. Walk up the short service road to the garages, and there is a locked farm gate at the end. There is a pedestrian entrance to a large mown field a few meters to the right of the gate. Walk across the field towards the large Oak tree, and to the left is a bench looking over the Halsey Field. This is where we meet for our work parties.
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