Everyone welcome and the weather forecast looks good.

Please come and join in the fun and do your bit for one of our beautiful woods.

Phone Jon on
0118 983 4969 if you need more information.

Easter Fun Day - Saturday 8 March 2008   12pm - 3pm

We would most delighted to see you.

Come and join the fun.

Phone Jon on
0118 983 4969 if you need more information.

We would love to see you.

Just turn up - or ring Jon on 0118 983 4969.

Members congregate before the clean up.

Members of the Cryptic Souls Crew and BTCV with their skip of rubbish.

Children making masks

The finished products

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Friends Danielle and Kieran from Garland School working hard collecting litter.

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Two of our star volunteers are delighted with their efforts.

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Volunteer clearers Vicki Booth and Stephen Reynolds showing some of the rubbish pulled out of the woods.

The Middle Bridge.

West Berks Council via Caroline Booth, kindly hired a tree contractor who brought a  tracked chipper together with three men.

This provided a great opportunity to clear some of the waste wood in the stream and surrounding areas.

Caroline Booth, Royce Longton, Jon Gibson & Mel Smethurst kept the chipper well fed.

Bridge builders L - R Jon, Liz, Katrina, & Andy.

A staircase four metres long, 600mm wide with a 20° rise was installed near the garages at the end of Hunters Hill.

Led by BTCV's wildflower expert Katrina Pengelly to identify the wealth of flora the wood has to offer.

Steps were made in the bank at the senior play area. Notices were posted nearby to advertise the Group's actions.

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Steps leading down from play area.

A comprehensive MSc vegetation assessment by Clare Pugh (Reading University).

Despite dreadful weather a team of volunteers cleared enough junk and rubbish to fill two large skips. The items removed included electrical equipment, large car parts (including numerous wheels), bicycles and bottles.

Organised to give the local community the chance to put their ideas and opinions forward. A model of the area (the wood and nearby housing) was created by children from Garlands School. Approximately 40 people attended and supplied numerous ideas. The results were then analysed by Friends of OGW and interested locals and an action plan prepared

Katrina Pengelly & David Wilding (BTCV), Royce Longton & Caroline Booth (West Berks Council), Mary Spanswick and Richard Blaskett look at the model plan made by children from Garlands School.

Andrew Stimson (BTCV) demonstrates how to make bird feeders at Garlands Junior School.

A public meeting, to tell residents about Omer's Gully Wood project, was held at the Village Hall.