We are working with Aire Action and BTCV to provide a team of volunteers to work at Thwaite Mill in Stourton on Thursday 9 July. I've attached details including the activities that volunteers would be involved in, and they would be working with a team of volunteers made up of other businesses. We have a few places left so please let me know if anyone's interested.
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Shelley Riley
Business Broker
Leeds Ahead
1 Park Row
Leeds
LS1 5AB
Tel: 0113 246 7877
Mobile: 07912 391 085
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Volunteering River week around Thwaite Mills
The river and canal corridors are being increasingly recognised and treated as a valuable resource for Leeds. As well as being an important wildlife corridor, the waterways are now attracting waterside developments and are increasingly used for recreation and leisure activities. Increasing awareness and utilisation is creating a demand to improve and maintain the appearance, quality and access to the waterways to support this increased use.
Volunteers from businesses can help improve our waterways and encourage more people and wildlife to use them. There many ways to look after and improve the waterways and waterside land such as clearing litter, improving footpaths, recreational facilities and improving wildlife habitats.
The volunteering river week in July will be a great time to enjoy and improve the waterways for the local communities. Improvement projects this year will focus around the site of Thwaite Mills which is a fully restored working watermill on a unique island between the River Aire and the Aire & Calder canal. Thwaite Mills is also surrounded by deprived the deprived communities and transitional urban areas, Belle Isle, Richmond Hill and Halton Moor, which are well connected to Leeds city centre, particularly by the river and canal corridors.
Activities on 6, 7 and 9 th July at Thwaite Mills will offer various tasks under the supervision of the local BTCV (British Trust for Conservation Volunteers) and YWT (Yorkshire Wildlife Trust) groups. A range of tasks will allow volunteers to contribute to maintaining and improving the waterfront, wildlife areas and educational space at Thwaite Mills.
Tasks will involve opening up footpaths and the towpath walkway, clearing vegetation, creating a ‘dead hedge’, building a barrier fence, painting the garage and warehouse as well as creating wildlife habitats for school groups to investigate.
Aire Action Leeds is a river management partnership (Leeds City
Council, Environment Agency, British Waterways and Yorkshire Water) with an aim to ‘Create better waterways for wildlife and people, now and
in the future’.
The Aire Action Leeds partnership involves a number of organisations
working together to protect and improve the appearance, wildlife richness and
encourage more people to actively use the waterfront whether they live, work or
visit the waterways and their waterfront.
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