Don Gorge Community Group

A good session of work assisting YWT today for our volunteers. Collecting materials for another section of woven fencing on Nursery Lane. Also found time to collect a bit of rubbish.

Today a small team of our volunteers tackled repairing the damaged/vandalised fence on the bends at Mill Lane. Also managed to to fill a couple of bags of litter.

A very productive day for our volunteers today. Working with YWT. Installed a woven fence to the bird viewing screen on the TPT. Also cut down a fallen tree blocking the path a bit further along. Not forgetting a bit of litter picking.

A busy day for our volunteers today. Some maintenance work to the stone bench next to the Fish Pass. General tidy up and grass cutting to the area. Weeding around the trees recently planted. Litter picking, oh we never tyre of it!

A busy day for our volunteers today. Cutting back trees blocking or posing a risk to footpaths. One up the path by the Boat Inn and also along the TPT towards the bird hides. Also one of our members also litter picked in Bentley.

Productive morning for our volunteers, working with City of Doncaster Council staff to plant 220 saplings on the south (Warmsworth) bank of the River Don, first step to creating a wet woodland that should take shape over the next five years. More on this project to follow.

Well, more sunshine for our volunteers today. Working with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. Last bit of tidying up on the plantation. Fence repairs in Pot Ridings Wood. A hard and rewarding shift.

Well, a very blustery day for our volunteers today. We tackled the path from the top of the bends that leads towards Warmsworth. Overhanging vegetation cut back and a general tidy up including a bit of litter picking. Also moved two dumped mattresses to enable collection by DMBC.

Well a rare treat for our volunteers today. Working in the sunshine and relatively warm. Worked continued on tidying the plantation and a bit more woven fencing.

A really good outing today for our volunteers. Joined by 10 BT/EE employees on a volunteer experience day. They were a great enthusiastic group. Three areas worked on, the plantation, completing woven fence to first bird hide and clearing the beaches down from the weir of litter.

It was pleasure for our volunteers today to work in some lovely sunshine. Coppicing work in preparation of completing the woven fence to the first bird hide.

Another busy day for our volunteers. Started work on a new woven fence to the first bird hide. We also helped YWT who are working on the bird hide by installing a new section of fencing that required upgrading. Also litter picked the area around the bird hides and the S bends.

Another good days work for our volunteers today working with YWT. Continued working on the plantation, more clearing and burning, completed a couple of woven fences. As earlier post also several bags of litter collected from Boat/Mill Lane.

While Mill Lane was closed to traffic today we took the opportunity to do a thorough litter pick - it’s normally too dangerous to clear that area. Seven bags of rubbish cleared along a relatively short stretch. We were joined by guys from @MyDoncaster. Good, satisfying result👍

Another very productive days work for our volunteers today. Continued clearing the plantation, coppicing, started some rustic woven fencing, a fire and the usual collection of litter.

A busy shift for our volunteers today. Working with YWT, cutting back vegetation and Coppicing on the plantation up from the Boat Inn.

A good shift for our volunteers today. Cutting back and tidying the path up from the Boat Inn. Also the paths up into the woods and down the steps towards the river. Litter also collected.

A number of our volunteers braved the freezing conditions today to work with Canal and River Trust. Reinstatement of the access lane down to the locks continued, moving a laying limestone.

Thanks to Lynne, Peter, Graham, Nick, Alan and Paul. Who gave up their time today to collect litter from Nursery Lane and Mill Lane. Seventeen bags collected together with other dumped items including 10 suitcases. Such a shame a lovely location is treated as a dump it site.