Post Category: Volunteers

Visitor Centre

Wild about Masks – well sick of picking up discarded disposables and seeking sewers to make reusable masks to sell at the Centre

We have all seen discarded PPE in the streets, parks and greenspaces and our volunteers are sick of picking up ...

Charlotte Fundraising Run
Fundraising

Charlotte RAN the river – and raised around £6K thank you to all who supported her and us

Heres is Charlottes Run Report following her Source to Sea fundraising Challenge running 28 miles dressed as an Otter!!

Fundraising

The Hit Squad volunteer team are awesome – here is the lasted from Project Officer Johnny

We love that our volunteers keep on coming out some weekly, others monthly and some yearly, together we’ll keep the ...

Volunteers

INNS work continues with our autumn Japanese Knotweed treatment

Readers will be well aware of our work to control Giant Hogweed and Himalayan Balsam along the river, at this ...

Volunteers

One man went to mow, went to mow a meadow… well a couple of men and some women and it is 8 meadows

As the leaves begin to change colour and the last of the blackberries are being foraged from the walkway you ...

Volunteers

Is your local stretch of river a Giant Hogweed Hotspot? Check out our Heat Map

Every cloud has a silver lining and lockdown has helped us get a better overview of the distribution of Giant ...

Volunteers

Wildflower Meadows Survey reveals increase in plant species in both Bells and Bogs Mill Meadow

Cracking the Secret Code! The Trust has created many wildflower meadow areas along the WOL with the aim of increasing plant biodiversity ...

Volunteers

Small Socially Distanced Volunteering Tasks are making a HUGE difference to the river and walkway

Just last week 36 people managed to clock up 90 hours on a variety of tasks including Balsam pulling, Willow ...

Volunteers

Charlotte celebrates 20 years of working with the Trust and on the river

Little did that young fresh-faced MSC student from Edinburgh Uni know that when she wandered into the Water of Leith ...

Volunteers

50 small socially distanced tasks have been undertaken to keep the river accessible and the INNS under control

'Hit Squad' volunteers, off to wade the river - what a merry bunch!

Giant hogweed Treatment
Volunteers

2350 Giant Hogweed plants treated over 15 days of lockdown – essential task complete (nearly)

It has taken 15 days for a trained member of staff and one other volunteer to waded 10 miles of ...

Volunteers

Cutting Cutting Cutting… enabling social distancing on the walkway

Johnny’s Journey – Sixteen days of cutting back vegetation and scraping paths either by yourself or with one other is ...

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