CSV Volunteering Day - Saturday 27th October 2012
CSV Make a Diference Day - Every year CSV provides opportunities for thousands of people to volunteer in activities across the country, and is one of the biggest volunteer recruitment drives. Volunteering enables people of all ages and backgrounds to reap the benefits of putting something back into their community.
Friends of Springfield Park held a volunteer event in an attempt to recruit more volunteers. Our aims was to clear the edges on the pathways, and prepare an area for local school children to plant some bulbs. As well as continuing with building some man-made insect retreats/homes, and hedgehog heavens.
CSV - Community Service Volunteers, and their vision is of a society where everyone can participate to build stronger and inclusive communities. Their mission is to enable people to take an active role in their communities
Friends of Springfield Park held a volunteer event in an attempt to recruit more volunteers. Our aims was to clear the edges on the pathways, and prepare an area for local school children to plant some bulbs. As well as continuing with building some man-made insect retreats/homes, and hedgehog heavens.
CSV - Community Service Volunteers, and their vision is of a society where everyone can participate to build stronger and inclusive communities. Their mission is to enable people to take an active role in their communities
The photo on the left is of an ash tree, sadly now under threat of a disease imported from Denmark. This disease could wipe out the ash tree in the UK. The Chalara fraxinea fungus causes leaf loss and the dying back of the crown of the ash tree, and often leads to death of the older trees. Older trees can survive initial infection but eventually succumb. It has wiped out between 60% and 90% of ash trees in some areas of Denmark where it was discovered in 2003, and is now becoming widespread throughout central Europe. Ash trees were first reported to be hit in 1992 in Poland, but it was not until the mid 2000s that scientists developed an understanding of the disease, and only in the year 2011 that it was diagnosed as a new organism.
The picture to the right, a pile of broken bricks, can often provide homes for insects. |