Rose and shrub beds at Snows Green

Seven volunteers from the Village Trust spent a couple of hours clearing and weeding the rose and shrub beds at Snows Green this morning.

Triangle Clean Up

A big thank you to all the volunteers from the Village Trust and Sage Foundation for clearing the moss, twigs and weeds from within ‘The Triangle’ in the village centre last Tuesday.

Annual Litter Pick

On a very windy but dry morning, Twenty volunteers from the Village Trust [half of who were a group of enthusiastic small children with their parents] picked up litter from within the conservation area.

Thank you to all those who helped make the village a litter free place today.

Give as you Live Online

As Amazon have now closed their ‘Amazon Smile’ donation scheme, we have instead enrolled the Trust with ‘Give As You Live Online’. Please consider signing up to this new scheme to help us generate additional funds in support of the work of the Trust.

https://www.giveasyoulive.com/charity/shotley-bridge-village-community-trust

Preparing for planting day

Volunteers from the Blooming group of the Village Trust were hard at work today weeding and sweeping the ‘Triangle’ and preparing for tub planting day later this month.

Another 10 new tubs have been purchased to replace more of the dilapidated tubs that were first planted in 2010. They will need to be painted and prepared over the next week and filled with compost. The old tubs will also need to be broken up. 13 tubs were replaced earlier this year before the summer bedding was planted.

Thank you again to the Crown & Crossed Swords for letting us have the use of one of their garages to paint the tubs and to our County Councillors, Kevin & Stephen, for providing funding to enable the Trust to purchase the new tubs, bulbs and winter bedding plants.