Club Projects |
Katherine's Wood in Lavender Hall Park |
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What it is |
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"Katherine's Wood" in Lavender Hall Park, Balsall Common, began as a fundraising project in 2006 to plant trees in memory of a local young lady who was lost tragically in March 2006. The wood was planted in two phases with a variety of local native trees and shrubs, over 2100 in all. Our club adopted the project and was successful in obtaining a Big Lottery "Breathing Places" award, thus doubling the original size of the project and helping create a more or less continuous wildlife corridor across the Park. In 2008 Solihull Council was able to declare the Park a Local Nature Reserve and in July 2009 the Park was officially opened as a Nature Reserve by Chris Packham (BBC Springwatch presenter), along with the Mayor of Solihull, Cllr David Bell and our Meriden MP, Caroline Spelman.
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Latest news |
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Lavender Hall Park has been reported in the Birmingham Mail and the Balsall Common Bugle. Click here to see the Birmingham Mail article.
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Shoeboxes |
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Neville is still operating the Shoebox scheme. Anyone with filled shoeboxes should give them to Neville as soon as possible please.
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Toiletries for Heartlands Hospital |
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Toiletries are needed to send to Heartlands Hospital for the severely disadvantaged elderly folk. We have previously collected for them. If anyone has any soap, flannels or similar items please let Geoff Arthur have them as soon as possible.
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Old mobile phones for Foundation |
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If anyone has any old mobile telephone(s) or empty ink cartridges, Jane has envelopes to send them in to District. They will donate £10 per phone for the charity of our choice. We have already been promised the proceeds from the phones for Foundation.
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