September working party

This Saturday morning we will be widening a footpath (FP 428) that Jean recently told me about. It has been almost cut off by a new fence and encroaching blackthorn. The path leads from the Ockley Road, on the way out of Ewhurst, to Bramblehurst Farm. We cleared the path last winter, but this was before the new fence was put up.

We will meet just before 10am on Saturday 1st September outside my house: Leabrook, Mapledrakes Road, GU6 7QP. I’ll have the LEAP tools, some snacks and coffee; we’ll finish at midday as usual. If you have any please bring your own tools too. For those that are unfamiliar with the path or my house here is a map:

Extract of map of Ewhurst

We have had a lot of positive comments to the work done with Sayers Croft and the DofE participants (pictured here), I have passed them on to Sayers Croft but thanks again to all that helped. I am planning a different session with the October half term DofE group, but this can’t be confirmed yet.

Sayers Croft, DofE and LEAP team

LEAP/Sayers Croft collaboration

It was nice to see so many of you at the Carnival, and thanks too to those who helped. There was a lot of interest in the books and the wildflowers from around the village pond. The free wildflower seeds were also very popular.

Despite some delays and a few setbacks, our first LEAP/Sayers Croft/Duke of Edinburgh student collaboration will be taking place on Wednesday afternoon (22 August). It would be nice if some of you are available and can help.

The DofE students are working towards the Gold medal by helping to resurface the muddiest parts of the path to the woods behind Mapledrakes Road. Surrey County Council have agreed to deliver the scalpings, and Sayers Croft are looking after the DofE students and providing the equipment for them.

The scalpings have also been allocated by SCC for us to resurface parts of the path from Rectory Close to the Church.

The pile of scalpings for resurfacing will be delivered to the end of Williams Place, and I will be filling a trailer with some of it for Rectory Close.

Any scalpings left will need to be moved, although I hope there will not be much! If there are some left I would also like some help on Saturday – I’ll send out another message if I do.

If you would like to help on Wednesday, I will be at the end of Williams Place from about 1pm. Please bring shovels, rakes and wheelbarrows!