Solway Coast National Landscape Volunteer Work Days.
Date: Thursday 19th December
Meet: 10 am at Crosscanonby Carr Nature Reserve car park, CA15 6SL, What3Words tens.simulates.transmitted
Bring: Lunch and drink, clothes and footwear suitable for task and expected weather – wellies recommended for this task
Task: The re-routed beck which runs through the centre of Crosscanonby Carr needs regular maintenance and clearance to ensure that it doesn’t become overgrown or blocked. We’ll be cutting back any saplings that have started to grow and clearing the channel to allow water to move more freely. Even if you can’t make it for the whole session please do come along at lunch time for some festive treats – there will be mince pies and other festive treats to keep everyone fuelled up – Christmas hats are optional!
Date: Thursday 2nd January
Meet: 10 am at Crosscanonby Carr Nature Reserve car park, CA15 6SL, What3Words tens.simulates.transmitted
Bring: Lunch and drink, clothes and footwear suitable for task and expected weather – wrap up warm.
Task: To ease us into 2025 gently we will be doing a litterpick of Crosscanonby Carr and the cyclepath, a bit of fencing and some tree work.
Date: Monday 6th January
Meet: 10 am at Mawbray Banks south car park, CA15 6QS, What3Words nowadays.tolerable.sprays and we will walk along to the beach from there. We aim to finish and be back at the car park by 11.30am
Bring: Drink/snack for afterwards, clothes and footwear suitable for task and expected weather – wrap up warm as it can be chilly on the beach.
Task: Join us to clean as much marine litter and debris as we can off the shoreline at Mawbray Banks. Alongside the beach clean we will also be doing a survey of the litter we find so that we can add our findings to the Marine Conservation Society beach litter database.
Date: Thursday 16th January
Meet: 10 am at Mawbray Banks south car park, CA15 6QS, What3Words nowadays.tolerable.sprays
Bring: Lunch and drink, clothes and footwear suitable for task and expected weather – wrap up warm.
Task: We’ll be keeping warm by checking the pedestrian gates and replacing springs that have become misaligned or broken. We’ll also be clearing gorse to ensure it doesn’t become dominant across the sand dunes (no doubt the cattle will try and help like last time).
Date: Thursday 30th January
Meet: 10 am at Crosscanonby Carr Nature Reserve car park, CA15 6SL, What3Words tens.simulates.transmitted
Bring: Lunch and drink, clothes and footwear suitable for task and expected weather – wrap up warm.
Task: We’ll be heading up to Milefortlet 21 to have a look at replacing the platform that we removed in November.
Volunteer WhatsApp
There is a volunteers WhatsApp group for informal chat, updates on tasks and occasionally where the SCNL ask for help with a job between workparties. If you would like adding to the group email info@solwaycoastaonb.org.uk with your phone number.