For wellbeing and wildlife

Friends of the Wye Conservation Volunteers were back at Desborough Park undertaking a very difficult but successful work party. There were four of our experienced volunteers wearing chest waders and carefully working in silt up to a depth of two feet. Four others on...

Friends of the Wye volunteers took their displays to the last Pann Mill Open Day of the year, and were pleased to greet visitors and let them know more about our ecologically important chalk stream and its Mills’ heritage. Our displays included samples of wildlife...

Friends of the Wye Conservation Volunteers were in action, making a big difference to the river where the water can now be seen by people entering the park by the Millbrook School footpath. Many of the overhanging branches and some nettles were removed improving views...

Friends of the Wye volunteers mounted their display at Wooburn Fete, and enjoyed meeting and sharing information with visitors. We had our usual wet display of aquatic invertebrates (starring the crayfish), information about our mills heritage, and photos highlighting...

Friends of the Wye volunteers took their displays to Pann Mill open day and were pleased to meet so many visitors and tell them about our important chalk stream. We exhibited information about the river’s Mills’ heritage, including a long map showing the location of...

Fourteen Friends of the Wye volunteers were in action, on a wet morning, enthusiastically litter picking and removing woody debris and overgrown vegetation from the back stream. Some five or so bags, of in-stream and bankside litter were collected and a separate small...

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...

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...

The Hughenden stream wasn't flowing on New Year's Day when we visited but then we heard that the stream was starting to flow again on 2 January.Now it’s in full flow and looking glorious on a cold and sunny mid-January day.

A volunteer work party kicked off our 2023 conservation programme. Numbers had to be restricted because the car park is always busy during the week and we only managed to find two spaces.The channel by the bridge on the southern stream was very restricted by invasive...

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...

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...