Habitat creation day on the River Irk - making brushwood faggots to place into the riverbanks.... stabilising the banks, and making areas of low flow to protect wildlife during flood events.... Everyone welcome,,, all tools provided as well as hot drinks, biscuits and lunch !!

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VOLUNTEER WEEK EVENT: Thank you event for Bollin River Guardians, going over success of 18 months of River Guardians on the Bollin and the data collected, and launch of data collection app and public facing map. There will be presentations, awards, drinks and a buffet.

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VOLUNTEER WEEK EVENT: 150 scouts will be helping us remove Himalayan Balsam from around Riverside Park in Macclesfield. This is a closed event.

VOLUNTEER WEEK EVENT: Willow spiling work to protect riverbank from erosion, and work in river to slow flows and deflect fast flows away from river bank, and also increase water flow through gravels to clean them.

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VOLUNTEER WEEK EVENT: Controlling Giant Hogweed along the River Bollin at Heatley in Lymm as part of strategic programme to eradicate GHW from the catchment.  Work undertaken by trained vols, closed event. 

We will be at the Patagonia shop in Manchester on Saturday 2nd June holding a stall with information on our projects and how you can get involved.

We will be putting up our blue gazebo - getting out our kick sample nets and trays - and recording the fish and insects we can find in the Dean Brook on the Smithills Estate in Bolton as part of The Woodland Trusts and Greater Manchester Ecology Units Bio-Blitz at this location.
EVERYONE is welcome to take part - no matter what their level of experience/knowledge/expertise - should be really good fun.

We would like to invite you to this exciting event in Manchester on 21st May. The event will take place at the Mechanics Institute in central Manchester.

Collaborative water management in the urban environment can realise multiple benefits including reduced flood risk, improved water quality and biodiversity, greater amenity and enhanced community health and wellbeing.

The workshop will be held on 21^st May at the Mechanics Institute in Manchester, M1 6DD. Booking is essential via this link.

This event is designed to build capacity and expertise with Local Authorities and other key stakeholders within CaBA partnerships to help drive greater collaborative delivery within the urban environment.

Lunch will be provided.

This event is funded by the Environment Agency/Defra. It is run under the auspices of the CaBA Urban Water Group in collaboration with the Mersey Rivers Trust and Ciria (www.ciria.org).

I hope you can join us.  Please book through Eventbrite here.

Friends of the Carrs Spring Clean

Sunday 29^th April 2018

10:30am – 3pm

Meeting at Wilmslow Parish Hall, Cliff Road, Wilmslow, SK9 4AA

Bring butties, but we will provide tea, coffee and biscuits.  Wear suitable outdoor clothing and boots with good ankle support.  All equipment provided.  We will be planting wildflower turf and sowing some seeds too, alongside general clean-up activities including litter picking, lifting self-seeded trees, cutting back willow along the river, creating willow hurdles to protect seeded areas and probably pulling shopping trolleys out of the river!