After the Boxing Day floods in 2015 the Calder Valley has been looking a little worse for wear. However, it will take more than that to sink this area and the Alternative Christmas and Handmade Parade events in Hebden Royd this weekend really showed their resourceful, community spirit. C I Read more…
Hi my name is Catherine and I mainly work with secondary school students doing their DofE. One of my groups that are doing their DofE Award is volunteering at my local junior school in Norland. We go to the school and work in the school grounds in their wildlife area. So far we have cut back trees and helped to make the pond a safer area so that the children can go hunting for mini beasts in the Spring term.
The pond was 4ft deep and was potentially dangerous so our first task was to empty all of the water from the pond and half fill it with hard-core so that it was only 2ft deep. The girls got really into the work and enjoyed getting in the pond to empty the water, especially ……