Month: December 2023

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Conservation Volunteering in January

For some it may be the bleak midwinter, but the conservation volunteers will be keeping warm with their conservation work in Norwich and the surrounding area. Details of their programme and how to join are here. The organiser, Mark Webster thanks the volunteers for all their efforts in the past year. Between 01 Jan 2023 and 31 Dec 2023:

·    221 tasks were delivered

·    109 different registered volunteers were involved

·    2046 workdays

·    53 different sites were worked on

·    15 sites (28.3%) are in the most deprived 20% of neighbourhoods

·    Average of 8.4 individuals per task

Now looking forward to a successful volunteering year in 2024.

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Progress on consolidating the riverbank.

Work has now started on improving the Yare Valley Walk between Cringleford Meadow and Strawberry Field. The first stage is to reinforce the riverbank that has become seriously eroded in recent years.

River work Photo: Paul Hann

The works are being carried out to fulfil a condition on the granting of planning permission for the McCarthy Stone development on Bluebell Road.

River Work Photo: Paul Hann

The next stage in the work should be to make much needed path improvements to the path surface on this section of the Yare Valley Walk.