About four or five years ago Kaimes Lockhart Memorial Church had to move out of their building as it was unsafe and irrepairable. It was demolished and the patch of ground belonging to the Church has been lying vacant since, though the church members are keen to build some sort of community asset there.
In the meantime, to try to make the area attractive and useful they're setting out to plant a hedgerow around the perimeter - including beech, hawthorn/quickthorn, blackthorn and wild rose to beautify what has been quite a bare looking spot and encourage local wildlife.
They contacted our group to see if we'd be willing to help prepare the ground for this and so we spent the morning of Saturday 22nd February (working alongside members of the Church) to cut back the turf along two edges of the field and start digging a trench for the bushes to go into.
The actual planting will go ahead next Friday 28th February.
In the meantime, to try to make the area attractive and useful they're setting out to plant a hedgerow around the perimeter - including beech, hawthorn/quickthorn, blackthorn and wild rose to beautify what has been quite a bare looking spot and encourage local wildlife.
They contacted our group to see if we'd be willing to help prepare the ground for this and so we spent the morning of Saturday 22nd February (working alongside members of the Church) to cut back the turf along two edges of the field and start digging a trench for the bushes to go into.
The actual planting will go ahead next Friday 28th February.