Keep a look
out for the December edition of Waterways World. Andrew Denny, Assistant Editor
at the magazine came down last month for a couple of days to have a look around
at our current projects. The end result will be a four page feature on the
Wilts & Berks Canal.
Speaking of
publicity, Justin Guy, our local PR volunteer, has written a piece with Val
Melville about the Living Waterways Awards and it has appeared on the Index
Wiltshire and Flic Wiltshire websites. Thank you, Justin – great work. In
addition, Business Voice, the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce magazine, has
featured the canal under their Charity Spotlight section with an article under
the banner “Wilts & Berks Canal restoration picks up momentum”.
Autumn has
really arrived! Amazing colours in the
trees and hedgerows along the canal, misty mornings and shortening days.
Opportunities for taking some photos – we are always looking for good ones for
the calendar each year. You can order the 2016 Trust calendar from Diana – diana.hunter@wbct.org.uk as well as Christmas Cards.
I will be
able to send out all the cheques for the winners for the Restoration Draw this
week. I would like to thank everyone for their support in purchasing tickets
and for those extra donations that some people added to their cheques. We made
around £3000 profit which will go to several different projects along the line.
420 young
trees (whips) arrived here today for Studley Grange courtesy of the Woodland
Trust. I see that they were actually funded by Sainsbury’s, Yorkshire Tea and
the People’s Postcode Lottery so many thanks to all the funders. I must say they were very well packed. They
are now standing out to catch tomorrow’s rain and we hope will be planted by
local Scout and Cub groups and many other volunteers from Royal Wootton Bassett in a few weeks
time.
Fundraising
is underway for Top Lock Pewsham. This will be a volunteer-led project. The MCC
brick-laying team that did some sterling work on that Cocklemore Brook culvert
is keen to get on to the next project and we are hoping that we can find the
funds to start next Spring.
Kath Hatton
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