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Practical Tasks Group - the PTG

The Friends have recently set up a practical tasks group - if you are interested in helping please contact us at tasks@judywoods.org.uk

Forthcoming tasks include checking on damage to bird and bat boxes, repairing dry stone walls and keeping the beck clear of obstructions.

Wednesday 26th May 2010

At long last we got the marker posts installed in Royds Hall Great Wood. 25 posts done in one day by 14 very enthusiastic people. Thanks to all involved, especially John Reily who co-ordinated it all.

Thanks to the PTG and friends from Santander who tackled the drainage problems at Judy Bridge on June 10th 2009

The team on Monday morning about to start the litter pick-up and stream cleaning.

Stream Work April 2009

Here are some new steps on the bank to help those crossing the beck by the new stepping stones.

Thanks to a Grass Roots grant of £825 via Cnet (Bradford & District Community Empowerment Network Ltd) we have been able to buy equipment and protective clothing for our Task Group members.  Here's the new sack cart in use (above).

Autumn Clean Up - October 2008

A new venture this year, was an autumn clean up.  We were disappointed that more people didn't turn up to help, but it was a very cold day!.  Stuart Tordoff organised us again and we were very grateful for the help of Mark and Andy from Bradford Council and also help from some of the Friends and people from the Environment Agency.

We cleared the stream from the Woodside end which was not reached in the spring clean up and did a litter pick at the Wyke end of the woods.  Mark and Andy also tackled the fly tipping over the wall on Station Road. As usual the skip was filled.

"Where does it all come from?" wonder Brian & John of the Friends and Mark & Andy of Bradford Council.

This year's spring clean-up was co-ordinated by Stuart Tordoff with help from the Friends of Judy Woods, Bradford Council and a Community Challenge project from CIBA. Two large skips were filled with rubbish pulled from the beck and a litter pick was done at the same time.

Mark and Andy from Bradford Council

Staff from Environmental Agency and Royds Environmental Warden Scheme helped clean up the beck - taking out two big skips worth, including numerous tyres, bikes, a wheelie bin and other such rubbish! Members of The Friends of Judy Woods led staff and children from Hill Top Primary on a litter pick, to collect the bits of rubbish that visitors leave in the woods.

Staff from the Environment Agency with some of the rubbish that they collected from the beck.

Staff and children from Hilltop Primary School helped collect litter.

Volunteers helped pull up vast quantities of Himalayan Balsam, which is an invasive weed that we are trying to stop tacking over the woods!

If you are interested in any future tasks, then please come along. Wear appropriate outdoor footwear and clothing, if you require either or both of these and/or any further info, then please email tasks@judywoods.org.uk