Friends of the Wye is sorry to report the untimely death of Steve, just before Christmas 2022.

Steve was a much valued, long term, and reliable supporter of Friends of the Wye, both as a committee member and active volunteer. He always gave his time generously, and regularly turned out at our conservation activities on the River Wye and Hughenden Stream.

Steve was known to many in the Group and will be greatly missed.

Our supporter Mark Fergusson has made a series of short films covering the Wye and Hughenden Stream. He’s kindly shared them with us and you can view them at: Crownfilms Motion Pictures on Vimeo

Please note that Revive the Wye and Friends of the Wye are not responsible for the content of external sites.

The channel by the bridge on the southern stream was very restricted by invasive vegetation and this had to be dug out with garden forks which was a very difficult and tiring task.

The results were very obvious and on past experience we expect the silt will be gone in 24 hours and the chalk stream bed revealed again. 

We were delighted that seventeen people turned up for the work party at Desborough Park to tackle ongoing conservation tasks.

Judy, Keith, Eddie, Karina and Phillip helped people working in the stream and led other small groups, litter picking and working on the bankside cutting down excess vegetation.

Friends of the Wye supporters helped with the Thames 21 PlasticBlitz event in Wooburn Park in conjunction with LitterBlitz and Bourne End & Cookham Rotary Club.

The group recovered in total, 16 bags of rubbish from a 250 metre stretch of the river and an additional 11 bags of rubbish in the surrounding areas. Sadly, they show all too clearly the problem of illegal fly tipping and littering in and around urban areas of the river.

Wooburn and Bourne End Parish Council collected all the bags and disposed of them, as their part of the clean-up.

Thanks to everyone involved including Friends of the Wye supporters Barry & Caroline.