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New Roundhouse build underway

Laying out

The team led by Duncan arrived on site on Thursday ready to start the building of the new roundhouse which you may remember was burnt down last year. An appeal to volunteers, supporters and friends was wonderfully supported and £2000 was raised through a Just Giving page on Facebook. This allowed us to purchase the necessary materials for the new building.

What poles go where

The pictures show the preparation and first stages of construction. We are all excited that we have been able to go ahead. At the moment we only have a small team on site due to Covid 19 restrictions.

Digging the holes

We hope to have more volunteers on site to help with various stages as the restriction on numbers is lifted.

Poles in position

Luckily the team had decent weather compared to the Tuesday – see last news post!

End of the first day

Well done everyone – let’s hope we have a decent summer so that we can enjoy using the new addition to the site.

We will follow the build and keep you posted with regular updates.

By Jonathan, ago

Blimey! – it was cold

Snow at the end of the day

What started as a lovely, if cold day, in the forest rapidly deteriorated towards the end of the day.

Our working party finished stripping off the last of the damaged shingles and started again on the fixing. Good progress was made as you can see

Latest work on the roof

There was more tidying of the site and garage and Beryl had the unenviable task of straightening the old copper nails. Roy is now re installing the furniture into the kitchen shelter. The building of the roundhouse starts this week which is great news.

By Jonathan, ago

First workday after latest lockdown

Yesterday was a lovely day in the forest, getting us underway again. Thanks to all the team who came along. We managed lots of tidying up, stripped some more shingles from the roof , repaired benches, started preparing timber for the kitchen shelter furniture.The site is looking ok and it won’t take long to get it looking a lot better.

Simon and Tom hard at work

Of course there was always tea to drink

The rest of us hard at work

By Jonathan, ago

School visit enquiries welcome

We are re opening our forest site following the easing of COVID 19 restrictions. However we will need some time to tidy the site and bring it up to scratch. Once we have done this we will start working towards re opening for school visits.

Please get in touch with our schools co ordinator, Judy Powell, schools.handsonheritage.co.uk to let us know if you are interested in coming to use the site in the months to come.

We welcome all enquiries for this and next academic year so please contact us to discuss what we can do for you. 

By Jonathan, ago