Newbury & Thatcham Green Gym are a fantastic organisation with a great back story for the Green Gym movement as a whole. They do conservation work every Monday morning in nature reserves and public wildlife places in the local area. They are a lovely bunch of people and very enthusiastic hard workers.
They came down to help clear the southern path along the banks of the River Kennet, this had become blocked by fallen trees and was becoming unpassable. They put in a herculean effort in for the few hours they were here and got the path into a much better state. We ere able to reroute the path onto higher ground avoiding some of the more muddy areas and opened up a few windows in the vegetation to allow the reiver to be viewed and appreciated more easily.
Thank you to all who helped, I was very impressed by how much we achieved. Like our other volunteering day clearing the paths in the meadow it was easy to see after a week how much extra footfall the path is getting.
I also noticed we made a fantastic scene as one if the viewing windows of the river looks upstream and I got the pleasure to see the sun setting over river whilst mist swirled above the water, what a fantastic site!
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