by Judy | Apr 12, 2019 | RTW
We are pleased to announce that Revive the Wye and Friends of the Wye have been awarded a last minute grant from WDC to help continue our work.
The funding – which was awarded for activities carried out in March – is part of a wider #Teamup2Cleanup campaign organised by HWBIDCO and including a host of other community groups including Chiltern Rangers, one of the Revive the Wye Partners. The grant has allowed us to purchase a significant amount of new tools including secateurs, loppers, saws, mattocks and long pond gloves . This makes life easier for our volunteers and ensures that we are able to continue our work improving and protecting the River Wye.
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The tools were used again for a work party at Wooburn Green on Tuesday this week, and were much appreciated by a group of 13 volunteers and task leaders. We got wet and covered in mud, but chocolate brownies and coffee helped to keep spirits up . See some of the volunteers above.
by Judy | Mar 30, 2018 | RTW
We are pleased to announce that Friends of the Wye have donated £200 to buy new gloves and secateurs for Revive the Wye volunteer work parties. New secateurs will be welcome by all the volunteers who have recently struggled with ones that stick or don’t work, and people who venture into the river wearing waders will now have proper elbow length pond gloves, so will keep their hands dry. As well as that, we can throw out the 9 PVC left hand gloves which have no matching right hands.
With a small top-up from RTW funds we are able to buy the following :
12 pairs of Wolf-Garten secateurs
24 red PVC gloves
6 pairs elbow length pond gloves
All of this will be very welcome to our regular volunteers who I’m sure will want me to pass on their thanks to Friends of the Wye
by Judy | May 15, 2015 | RTW
Tools handover April 29th
The Revive the Wye (RTW) Partnership has now received a range of new equipment funded by local environmental groups. This will enable RTW to conduct more volunteer conservation work along the River Wye and its associated network of waterways.
The new equipment, from Bow Saws and Hay Forks to Waders and Wheelbarrows, has been funded by four of RTW’s key partners – the Chiltern Society, The High Wycombe Society, Wycombe Wildlife Group and the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project. Another RTW key partner, the Chiltern Rangers, will provide storage space for the new equipment.
by Judy | Apr 23, 2015 | RTW
In previous years the tools/waders used by the Revive the Wye (RTW) conservation volunteers have been provided on an event–by–event basis by the various RTW partners (including Chiltern Rangers, Wycombe District Council, the Environment Agency, Wycombe Wildlife Group and, in the early days, the Chiltern Society). This has often involved the logistical challenges of collecting tools from several locations and transporting them to and from the conservation event sites.
We have got to the stage now where the RTW Steering Group has decided that the Partnership needs to have its own tools to overcome the various logistical issues and also problems with the condition and limited sizes of some of the borrowed kit (e.g. waders).
We have raised £2200 from the Chiltern Chalk Streams Project, Chiltern Society, High Wycombe Society and Wycombe Wildlife Group and procured the new tools.The Chiltern Rangers have kindly agreed to allow RTW use of their premises for storing kit, which will be a great help.
A handover event is planned for the afternoon of Wednesday 29 April 2015 alongside the main River Wye stream on the north side of King’s Mead. (See Event calendar for details)
