IN THIS ISSUE:
• Introduction… • Recipe of the season… • Grazing Update – enter
the Hairy Cows… • Forest History - Dame
Margery Corbett Ashby
• Health Walks… • Wag Log… • Conservation Group…
• Conservation and
Management News… • From the Director’s
Chair…
• Forthcoming events
and exhibitions…
• Events review…
• Coffee morning…
• Christmas Party…
• Christmas Trees…
• Barn – Christmas and
Winter Opening…
• Uniform…
• Mileage expenses…
• Length of service…
The Newsletter for all Ashdown Forest Volunteers
Issue 17 – September / October / November / December
Probably the oddest summer weather we can recall. The Forest has been a
quagmire with endless days of rain suddenly followed by the odd hot
sunny day! Luckily one of those days happened to coincide with the BBQ
and we were able to eat outside! Thank you for all your very positive
feedback, we are really pleased you enjoyed the evening!
The wet weather had one benefit – we were able to ‘fire’ up the Jubilee
Beacon, without setting anything else alight! Here are a couple of rather
nice pictures.
We also had a very successful opening night for Mervyn Hathaway’s lovely
exhibition. Over 100 guests enjoyed a glass of wine and nibbles. Sales on
the night were brisk. The photographer who attended took some really
nice shots of the barn – here is just one from the early part of the evening!
A very big thank you
must go to Richard and
Julie Lowe and Jane
Withey for their help
setting up, behind the
bar, washing up, sales
and car park/traffic
management – you
were great guys!
Well, that was all a bit weird!!
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Update on Grazing…from Caroline FitzGerald The spring deluge continued all summer, as you all know. From our point of view, this at least got us out of
having to haul water. But, it also meant that there is a huge growth of grass this year making the efforts of the
animals inadequate to the sea of molinia.
Our cattle trial has gone really well, with our six borrowed Highlands having a lovely summer wading in the
stream and trashing birch trees. They are really well designed to utilize the course vegetation and seem to
thrive on it.
You can still see them until the end of September if you go to Townings car park and walk down the hill. Our
Sunday checker, Karina, is moving house so we are looking for somebody who is interested in looking after the
sheep at the weekends. Please get in touch with the Office if you would like to get involved. You will need to
make a regular commitment of time on a Sunday, training will be given. We are also interested in anyone up
and around the Forest who may have vacant farm buildings that we could use.
This Scottish venison recipe, by well-known TV chef
Nick Nairn, really does benefit from long, slow
cooking, and develops a beautifully earthy sweetness
- try it as an alternative to turkey, or for Hogmanay.
It serves 8 and can be easily doubled. Preparation
time is 15 mins and cooking time 1 hr 50 mins or
until tender.
Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
1. Fry the vegetables in a little oil and butter in a
heavy-based casserole for 4-5 mins until golden.
2. Tip in the garlic and fry for a further min, then
set aside.
3. Put the venison into a plastic bag with seasoned
flour and shake to coat.
4. Add a little more oil and butter to the pan, then
fry the venison over a high heat, stirring now and
then, until well browned.
5. Don't crowd the pan - cook in batches if
necessary. Set aside with the vegetables.
6. Add the redcurrant jelly and wine to the pan,
and bring to the boil, scraping up all the bits that
have stuck to the bottom.
7. Pour in the stock, and then add the thyme, bay
leaf, meat and vegetables.
8. Season if you like and bring to the boil.
9. Cover and transfer to the oven for about 1½ hrs
or until tender.
10. Remove from the oven and check the seasoning.
11. Serve with mash or a jacket potato
Succulent braised venison…
Ingredients
2 carrots, roughly chopped
140g turnips or swede, roughly chopped
2 onions, roughly chopped
3 celery sticks, roughly chopped
olive oil and butter, for frying
1 garlic clove, crushed
1kg boned leg/shoulder of venison, cut into chunks
5 tbsp plain flour, seasoned with salt and pepper
2 tbsp redcurrant jelly (or rowan or hawthorn jelly)
450ml dry red wine (Rioja is good)
450ml beef stock
2 thyme sprigs and 1 bay leaf
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Dame Margery Irene Corbett Ashby,
DBE (19 April 1882–15 May 1981)
was a British Liberal politician,
feminist and suffragist.
She was born at Danehill, the
daughter of barrister Charles Henry
Corbett who was sometime Liberal
MP for East Grinstead and Marie
Corbett herself a Liberal feminist and
local Councillor in Uckfield.
Margery and her younger sister,
Cicely Corbett, were educated at
home. Charles taught the girls
classics, history and mathematics and
Marie taught them scripture and the
piano. A local woman gave them
lessons in French and German.
Margery Corbett Ashby wrote fondly
about her childhood and her account
was included in her Memoirs
published after her death:
“No one can have had a happier
childhood than myself, brought up,
with a younger brother and sister, in
a large, old-fashioned, country
house. In my youth I shared every
advantage with my brother equally -
from love and affection to the best
possible education and opportunities,
and the critical but unstinted
encouragement which to the young is
like sunshine to a plant.
My mother became an energetic
cyclist, rebuked by her neighbours for
showing inches of extremely pretty
feet and ankles; regarded as highly
indecorous. It was not only to the
ankles that the neighbours objected.
My parents were Liberals… at that
period as much hated and distrusted
by the gentry as Communists are
today, and regarded as traitors to
their class. In consequence they
boycotted them… I suspect this
boycott threw my energetic mother
even more fervently into good works
amongst the villagers, where, in the
days before the welfare state,
poverty was widespread. We were
educated at home. Lessons were
divided. Mother took scripture and
music. My father taught us history,
geography, mathematics and Latin.
From the age of four I read
everything I could lay my hands on. I
Forest History – Dame Margery Corbett Ashby, suffragist…
remember lying on the floor reading
contemporary accounts of the
Indian Mutiny and the Crimean War
in my grandfather's library, where
there was a complete set of
Illustrated London News. He had
bookshelves to the ceiling… In my
father's library the big bookcases
also went up to the ceiling.
For many years Charles and Marie
Corbett made public speeches on
the subject of women's rights in
East Grinstead High Street. East
Grinstead was a safe Conservative
seat and the crowds were usually
very hostile. A survey carried out in
1911 suggested that less than 20%
of the women in East Grinstead
supported women having the vote
in parliamentary elections.
At the age of eighteen, Margery,
her younger sister Cicely and a
group of friends formed a society
called the Younger Suffragists. In
1901 Margery won a place at
Newnham College, Cambridge to
read Classics. At university she
joined the Cambridge branch of the
National Union of Women Suffrage
Societies (NUWSS) and by the time
she was nineteen she had become
secretary of the Constitutional
Suffrage Movement.
Her friend, Mary Hamilton,
described their youth and time at
University:
"Margery's mother, Marie Corbett,
was an ardent Feminist, one small
external sign being the fact that she
regularly wore the breeches she had
taken to when bicycling came in, at
least a decade before war-time
made them permissible. She was a
woman of great drive, active in
local affairs and local government
and all good causes. The house was
apt to swarm with people. The
Corbett's hospitality was in the best
English tradition. Friends of
Margery, of her younger sister
Cicely - extravagantly pretty, and at
the time we were at Cambridge,
preparing to go Oxford and of her
elder brother Adrian, then at
Oxford, assembled for dances and
week-end parties…. At college
Margery was intensely keen on
civil liberties, free trade,
international good will,
democracy… She spends time
and energy without stint or
personal ambition… She has an
immense sense of duty, and must
have spent a very large part of
her entire life on committees and
at meetings. Not to like her is
and always has been impossible;
she has charm and complete
sincerity, and has made a success
of life, in its essential
relationships. She was a good
daughter: she is a good wife and
mother. The one boy, born during
the 1914 war, when his father
was in France with the B.E.F.,
was, as a baby, so delicate that it
did not seem possible he should
live; Margery insisted that he
should; he has grown up a superb
physical specimen.
Although Margery Corbett
passed her examinations,
because she was a woman,
Cambridge University refused to
grant her a degree (Cambridge
University granted the first
degrees to women in 1947). In
1904 Margery obtained a place
at the Cambridge Teachers
Training College but after
completing the course she
decided that teaching was not
for her.
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In 1907 Margery Corbett was
appointed Secretary of the National
Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
(NUWSS) and was given the
responsibility of editing their journal.
Disappointed with the poor record of
the Liberal Party with respect to
women's suffrage, Margery left the
Women's Liberal Federation and,
with her mother and sister, helped
form the Liberal Suffrage Group.
Margery also played an active role in
the by-election where Bertrand
Russell unsuccessfully stood as the
women's suffrage candidate. The
following year Margery became a
member of the National Committee
of the NUWSS. In 1909 Margery
became involved in the International
Woman Suffrage Alliance and was a
speaker at their conferences in Berlin
and Stockholm.
On a more personal note Margery
married the barrister, Brian Ashby in
1910. He was a great supporter of
her work and did not object to
Margery retaining her own identity
maintaining her maiden name.
In November 1914, Margery gave
birth to her only child, Michael
George. His arrival restricted her
political activities during the next few
years but she was to do war work in
hospitals and on the land. She also
ran a canteen at an outbuilding in an
attempt to provide good food for
local schoolchildren.
Health Walks are short led events, lasting no longer than an hour. The walks are for everyone, but
are specifically designed to encourage those that would benefit from more exercise. The routes are easy
and provide a pleasant way to achieve fitness for people who struggle with their health. The majority of
walkers join because of the social aspect. To encourage as many people as possible to take up regular
walking, the walks take place every two weeks and are provided for free. For more information see the
flyer/information sheet included with this newsletter.
After the passing of the
Qualification of Women Act in
1918, which gave women over the
age of 30 the right to vote, Margery
became one of the seventeen
women candidates that stood in the
first post-war election. Margery
stood at every election between
1919 and 1935 and again at the
bye-elections of 1934 and 1937. She
was unsuccessful in all of them but
her real aim was to encourage
other women to come forward as
candidates rather than to become
an MP herself. At the 1918 election
she stood as the Liberal candidate
for Ladywood, Birmingham where
she advocated feminist policies that
would have given women full
political equality with men. It was at
the election of 1919 that Nancy
Astor became the first woman
voted into Parliament.
Margery had wider political
interests - at a public meeting in the
Queens Hall in July 1922, the
Countess De La Warr was elected
President of the NUWSS with
Margery and her sister Cecily
elected to the Committee and by
1923 she herself was elected
president a post she held until her
retirement in 1946.
On the international scene she
attended the Versailles Peace
Conference of the International
Alliance of Women and was the
British delegate to the Geneva
Disarmament Conference. Margery
resigned from this position in 1935
in protest at the British
government's refusal to support
any practical scheme for mutual
security and defence. In 1937 she
was one of the signatories of a
declaration in the press asserting
that war could be avoided if the
League of Nations took positive
action.
However, she realized that war was
inevitable and worked quietly
throughout the duration in many
voluntary roles. Margery continued
to be active in politics after the
Second World War. She became
president of the National Union for
Equal Citizenship and in 1952, at
the age of seventy, she became
editor of International Women's
News.
She was awarded the DBE by the
Queen in 1967 in recognition of her
services to women.
Margery was probably the only
woman in Britain to be involved in
suffrage campaign before the First
World War and the Women's
Liberation Movement in the 1970s.
Her last political demonstration
was at the age of ninety-eight when
she took part in the Women's Day
of Action in London in 1980.
Margery Corbett Ashby died at
Danehill on 22nd May 1981 one
month after her 99th
birthday.
Throughout her life she was a
rousing and passionate speaker
who, through her personal
charisma, drew others to her many
causes. Her strong religious beliefs
and her supportive family
background helped her to become
one of the most well-known
women of her generation.
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“If only my master was
as smart and as
handsome as me!”
Twitter… This rather stunning shot of the Forest was taken by a fellow Tweeter by
the name of ‘Tweek’! She took the shot from the window of a flight
(Gatwick to the Isle of Man) and posted it on Twitter for all to see. After
a short ‘on-line’ conversation Tweek – who I now know as Catherine sent
us a copy of the image. The size really doesn’t do it justice – and after
some digital manipulation by Chris Marrable it really is an impressive
photograph! Catherine has said we can use the image in our
publications / publicity as long as she gets a credit – which is fair enough!
The Wag Log – a new recruit… Hi everyone.
I hope you had fun at the summer barbecue, I certainly did. I’m delighted to announce
a new member of staff – my new buddy, Ted. Ted’s coming up to 2½ years old (just
over 4 man-months); he’s a Border collie from a very good sheepdog family. His
humans are Joe and Toni (part of the shepherding team) who he’s currently training up
to help him round up the sheep. He tells me that they are showing real promise. I
wonder if they’ll ever make it onto “One dog and his man”. This summer’s weather
hasn’t been great although doing butterfly transects and
bracken mowing maps has got us out and about on my Chase.
We’re just embarking (pun intended) on our annual tree
survey which is good because we get to walk all the footpaths.
I’m also still plugging away at my boundary walking which
takes us to all corners of my Chase.
By the time you read this I’ll probably be in (hopefully sunny) Cornwall. Me and ‘im
indoors are planning a beach holiday based in Constantine Bay near Padstow. He’ll no
doubt make a fool of himself trying to ‘surf’. Last time we went I was body-surfing the
waves which was radical – I was totally stoked, dude. I also love wrestling with balls on
ropes (or buoys as he calls them).
See you when I get back!
Love, Scallywag X X X
Conservation Group … It’s time to resurrect our monthly work schedule. For an easy re-introduction, I would like to attempt a marsh gentian
survey on Sunday 30th
September. There are two sites where they grow in reasonable numbers but spread over a wide
area; several people working together should make it easier to get a more accurate count. Meet at the Forest Centre at
9.30 or Millbrook East carpark a few minutes later – decent walking boots, walking stick, notebook, gps could all be useful!
If the weather is rubbish we will have to cancel because the flowers only open in sunshine and they are difficult to find if
the flowers are closed up. If you know of anyone else who might be interested, please bring them along.
Hope you managed to have a good summer Chris Marrable
From the Director’s Chair… Much of my time in the last couple of months has been taken up working with the Forest Centre Development Committee
in considering the various options for the Forest Centre - having spoken to many of you, particularly the Information
volunteers, I appreciate that this is a period of uncertainty over the future – I will update you on progress at the coffee
morning on the 10th October. We have 2 new Volunteer ‘projects’ in the development stage. As you will know we are
trying to secure funding to take forward the ‘Every Dog Matters’ programme to include recruiting ‘dog-walker’ volunteers,
training on the Forest for dog walkers and horse riders, and developing a clear and consistent Code of Conduct – we will
know the outcome of funding applications, hopefully by the end of the month. Our other project is to recruit volunteers
to lead Health Walks on the Forest with training to be provided by The Trust for Conservation Volunteers (formerly BTCV)
– if you haven’t already had the details then do please speak to Tracy.
Pat Buesnel
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!
Mike Payne, West Chase - Contractor work will take place either side of the Airstrip covering around eighty hectares and
beside Hindleap car park. All of this work is scrub removal with nothing really big being removed except one or two
trees at Hindleap. The in-house team will be working between the rides and A275 and on the west side of A275. We are
hoping to have a volunteer group clear the plant growth from along the gorge, running down to the Vachery, so that the
amazing engineering of the water falls and ponds can continue to be seen by visitors. In September a contractor will be
de-silting the three top ponds of the gorge using a digger.
Mike Yates, North Chase – Wessex Forestry will be undertaking clearance work on Broadstone Heath. This was first
carried out five years ago; this is a very good indicator of how quickly heathland becomes invaded by birch. The work
will start below the Forest Centre and will finish at the woodland boundary near Townsends car park. It should also
make a considerable difference to the area between Broadstone car park and the quarry which is getting heavily
scrubbed over. There will also be woodland management carried out by local commoners taking their estovers. We issue
an average of thirty wood permits a year on the North Chase.
Rich Allum, South Chase – two replacement bridges, one at Londonderry Farm & the other at Primrose Patch. The last
bit of ride work – below Misbourne Farm/ School Lane. AFRA and I are collaborating in an attempt to sort out the access
at Boringwheel Mill with a specialist contractor. Scrub clearance in the bog between Stonehill /Misbourne Farm, more
scrub clearance in and around Breakneck Ghyll (below Hollies car park), a bit near Londonderry Farm and just north of
Fairwarp Church. Annual tree survey of roadsides, car parks and Rights of Way along with boundary walking, boundary
books & resulting byelaw issues.
Chris Sutton, East Chase – This summer work has been difficult and, where it has taken place, much reduced to avoid
damaging the Forest. We need an Indian summer to help us catch up. So, the bridges mentioned in the last newsletter
are still outstanding and might be completed by the end of September. This winter, two areas will be cleared of
encroaching silver birch and pine (under HLS). This will take place from the boundary of King Standing Farm around to
the dew pond and out to the road and will be done by contractors. In-house, we will be clearing from Church Hill car
park towards the stream at the bottom. This work is long overdue and will open up some excellent heath and views. It
will also help to reduce the bracken monoculture. Where we cut bracken over the last 10-15 years we have seen the re-
establishment of heather stands and we hope to continue this. Through the dark winter I will be reviewing the health &
safety policies. If there are any volunteers who wish to help…. Feel free to offer your services! When roads are closed
for highway work the opportunity arises to clear roadsides of overhanging branches and leaning trees in safety. This
work prevents vehicles hitting branches, gives better sightlines for motorists to see animals and allows tractors to hedge
cut the vegetation with ease. We did some of the Stonehill road this summer – did you notice?!
Chris Marrable – The wettest summer for 100 years had an impact on the Forest, not only on its wildlife but also on our
ability to carry out summer management. As far as wildlife is concerned, it’s still a bit early to take full account.
However, we know that early butterfly numbers were very low and they never really recovered. Silver-studded blues
appeared later than usual, exploiting a brief gap in the rain, but they never achieved previous years’ numbers. The
numbers of Browns, mainstay of our grassy rides, were low and Skippers were very hard to find. One bright spot was the
number of Small Coppers which appeared late and in good numbers. Curiously and perhaps counter-intuitively,
dragonflies don’t seem to have enjoyed the wet weather and their numbers were below average.
We don’t know yet what happened to bird breeding success but everybody else has reported a poor year – low numbers
of surviving young as a consequence of wet nests and paucity of invertebrate food. The weather would certainly have
hindered any recovery in our Dartford warbler numbers though adult Nightjars seemed to be as plentiful as usual. We
will know more once all the records from the Bird Group are collected. It is too early to assess the impact of the
weather on Dormice, as we tend to get the best data from our boxes in the September / October checks but so far,
numbers are down. Dormice do not do well in wet weather, especially if it is also cold!
As far as management is concerned, we had to start bracken mowing later than usual because the ground was too wet
for tractors but we did manage to spray the last of our Asulox, the only available bracken-specific herbicide. Asulox is
now banned because the manufacturer could not afford to take the chemical through the arduous European licensing
process. We struggled with our other spraying programmes – Japanese knotweed and Rhododendron regrowth – but
have now largely caught up. Ragwort and Himalayan balsam seem to have thrived in the wet weather and we have
spent many man-days pulling up both these invasive species. On the plus side, some of our rare plants seem to have
done rather well. We had near record numbers of fragrant orchid and marsh orchids were in good numbers. Again, it is a
bit early for counting marsh gentians, but where we have checked, there are good numbers.
Conservation and Management News…
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EXHIBITION NEWS…
Oliver Pyle – “Ashdown Forest: A Portrait in Watercolour” … Oliver is a self-taught landscape photographer and watercolourist and he will be exhibiting
his paintings http://www.ashdownfineart.co.uk/
Ashdown Forest Wood turners…
Are back again for their annual pre-Christmas exhibition the ever popular wood turners will
be at
Events review… We held a series of events throughout the summer all were very well attended and the feedback has been
really excellent:
18th
June – Clive Poole led 12 enthusiastic mixed ability birders went on a very enjoyable dawn chorus walk,
ably assisted by Jane Withey (as tail end Charlie!)
21st
June – Clive led a very popular nightjar walk and a small group of eight enjoyed the evening stroll around
Chelwood Gate and actually saw/heard nightjars. Jane Withey and Andy Butler were Clive’s able assistants. The
2nd
walk in July was rained off!
11th
July – Dave Brooker held a very successful one day digital photography course which was attended by 17
keen local photographers.
12th
July – the Centre hosted a resident(s) / public meeting and 40+ persons attended on a very wild and wet
evening. Clive Poole and Jane Withey both gave excellent talks on the role of the volunteer. Questions covered
the usual topics – dogs and sheep worrying, trees and deer.
3rd
August – saw the opening of Mervyn Hathaway’s lovely exhibition. This was attended by over 100 visitors
and sales were brisk. There are photographs on our Facebook page!
16th
August - ESCC Children’s Library Day was attended by 50 children who enjoyed stories and magic! The
weather was kind and crafts and colouring were able to take place out of doors.
18th
-19th
August – the Centre hosted a ‘Pop-Up’ exhibition by Juliet Murray – who was busy working away on a
pastel painting in the Information Barn. Over 100 people came to see Juliet’s work and to chat to her about
pastel technique.
22nd
August – Lisa (our teacher from SWT) lead a happy bands of children (and parents) out onto the heath for
a mini-beast hunt and some fun and games – the parents were very enthusiastic and enjoyed themselves as
much as the children! We made a small charge for this to cover Lisa’s costs and it would be good to boost
numbers and frequency such events. We had a second event planned but this was cancelled as there were no
bookings.
23rd
August – saw Mike Yates and Bernie Randall wrangling 30 children and parents in Broadstone Quarry
during camp building day. The feedback for this event was fantastic – was that something to do with the fact it
was free? There were shelters of all shapes and sizes and picnics going on all over the quarry. Everyone then
enjoyed themselves getting lost in Mike’s fabulous bracken maze!
24th
August – Hunt a Bug / Build a Bug was led by artist Lyn Merrick – 8 children and parents attended –
enjoyed a bug hunt and then made clay models of their own bugs – numbers were low but the feedback was
fantastic!
23rd
September – Besom Brooms with Stan Card – just confirmed at the time of going to press – there will be a
review in next issue!
the Centre selling their hand-made gifts, novelties and table wares. Also some great stocking fillers and gift ideas -
from 3rd
November to 23rd
December.
Fungi Day… Is planned for 1
st November. Why so late? To tie in with the half-term holidays! So, finding fungi is going to be a real
challenge for us all.
Other events and exhibitions… Competition winners from East Grinstead Camera Club; Sculpture and drawings by Helen Hockin; Paintings, drawings
and crafts by Wealden Hidden Talents; Paintings by Helen Bardsley and Friends and Nutley Historical Society (topic to
be confirmed). All dates and titles will be confirmed!
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The Conservators of
Ashdown Forest
The Ashdown Forest Centre
Wych Cross
Forest Row
East Sussex
RH18 5JP
PHONE:
01342 823583
01342 822846
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01342 824177
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Coffee Morning… The next Coffee Morning is planned for Wednesday 10
th October at
11.00 am. A chance for you to meet each other, staff, members of the
Board and to air your views, share your ideas and find out what is
going on. It’s open to all volunteers, so please come along
Christmas Party… The date for the Christmas Party is Thursday 13
th December 19.00 for
19.30 Please, please PLEASE RSVP as space is very limited for this
popular event.
Christmas Tree Sales… We are hoping to have trees cut and week-commencing 26
th
November ready for sale on the week-ends of 1st
-2nd
; 8th
-9th
; 15th
-
16th
and 22nd
-23rd
December (and from the office during the week).
Christmas tree sales are good fun and it would be helpful if we could
have a volunteer ranger to help with the choosing, trimming and
dragging around of the trees – please let Rich know if you are able to
help out on these dates.
Information Barn Winter Opening… The last week-day afternoon will be Friday 28
th September. However,
we do plan to open for autumn half-term week which runs from
Monday 29th
October to Friday 2nd
November and hope to have some
small events to run alongside fungi day (1st
November).
Christmas Opening… Sat 22
nd, Sun 23
rd December – open as usual
Mon 24th
, Tues 25th
, Wed 26th
, Thurs 27th
, Fri 28th
December – closed
Sat 29th and Sun 30th
December – open as usual
Mon 31st
December – closed
Tuesday 1st
January – open if a volunteer is available
Uniform Information Barn Volunteers… Mounted rangers and Volunteer Rangers have uniform / clothing
provided. If Information Barn Volunteers would like a sweatshirt and /
or a short sleeved polo shirt to wear during your barn duties please
let us have your sizes as soon as possible so we can place an order
with our supplier and embroiderer. They will be available to collect at
our next coffee morning in March.
Mileage Expenses… Enclosed with this newsletter is an expenses claim form for mileage
to and from the Centre for arranged volunteer duties (i.e. Information
Barn Volunteers, Volunteer Rangers and Conservation Group). If you
would like to make a claim please let us have your completed forms
(on a quarterly basis) and your bank account details so we can pay
you directly into your accounts.
When did you start Volunteering? Please let me know the year in which you began your volunteering on
the Forest. We would like to recognize long service – but need to
have some dates to work with – thank you! First presentations will
follow in due course.
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