Volunteering News

Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 restrictions, our volunteer numbers are limited, and we are unable to take on new volunteers at this stage.

However, if you are interested in joining us as a volunteer, then we would really like to add you to our reserve list so that when the restrictions are eased, we can get you on board. If this is of interest to you, then please contact us via our contact page here. 

Once we are allowed to take on additional people, we will then contact you to see if you are still interested and available.

Lockdown musings

Greetings Fringe Fans from Planet Covid-19!

We’re all missing more intimate contact with other forms of human life and for me that includes my fellow volunteers!  They won’t be surprised that I’ve selflessly continued the tradition of cake baking and eating, but haven’t held a pair of loppers in my hand for nearly 4 months (oh matron!).

Memories of Box Strainers

My morning cycle rides take me around the quiet lanes and byways between home and Wymondham. My other boundaries are the A140 and the A47. Everything in between is accessible without going on a main road. The route is mostly bordered by farmland with hedgerows, tree belts and fences marking the boundaries. As I tootle along, I gaze into the woodlands noting whether these are being managed or just left to nature to sort things out.

Let them eat cake!

“Let them eat cake!” Is what Marie-Antoinette is supposed to have said when she heard that the starving French peasants had no bread sometime back in the late 1700s. Whether it is true or not will be the subject of long debate but if you said it to our volunteers they would say “yes please”. And not only would they eat the cake, but they probably made it in the first place!