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Friends of Great Ashby (FoGA) are delighted to be liaising with our local Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers, for a litter pick on the 20th February 2022. This is to help the community as part of their Thinking Day (Founders day) celebrations. We have circa 100 attendees. This will be a combined SBC & NHDCContinue reading “Girl Guide Litter Pick – 20th February 2022 2pm to 4pm”

Friends of Great Ashby (FoGA) are delighted to be part of the program keeping our local woods ecological healthy & safe for use. We love the fact that Tanya Dickson of CultureWood runs monthly Forest Schools in Great Ashby! The next event is on Sunday 20 Feb 2022, 11am to 12:30pm. The government’s evaluation [1]Continue reading “Educational Importance of a Forest School – Great Ashby has one!”

What a privilege volunteering for FoGA I had the most delightful of afternoons led by the Junior and Little Litter Leaders of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. We walked the woods surrounding the Park and they showed me all the best places to find litter, explaining why it was in the wrong place and the harmContinue reading “Litter Leaders Clear the Woods!”

Being a green lane, the detritus from the beautiful trees and fauna, collects and rots, encroaching on to and blocking the path, which is made worse by over hanging branches, leaves and stinging nettles. It is essential to clear, which is what Friends of Great Ashby (FoGA) did in Summer 2020, and again in AutumnContinue reading “Bay Lane – importance of keeping this beautiful Lane clear of natural debris”

A small team of 4 Adults & 2 little people picked for 1.5 hours (6 hours in total). A litter pick team will go into Hangbois Wood itself per the litter pick schedule. Areas needing NHDC/HCC intervention were identified and submitted to NHDC/SBC as the works were conducted along the Stevenage/Great Ashby border. We canContinue reading “Report Litter Pick – ROW Hangbois Woods 7.11.21”

This section (at what3words wacky.losses.host) has a series of potholes that fill with mud. The sides of the bridle path are detritus, which falls onto the path & impedes access at the puddle/mud filled pot hole. Big thank you to HCC Highways and CRoW for help in getting cleared for the return to school. PerContinue reading “Bay Lane 31.10.2021”

A big thank you to our patrons, Sandra Bar and Tim Lee, who have inspired us through this difficult year. We also thank you for your donations of equipment; we have gained spades, shovels, rakes, brooms, cones, pins and wheel barrow! with thanks to Ann Lowe, Stuart Cripps, Terry Buchart & Ian Dollimore – andContinue reading “For a Peaceful Christmas & a Heathy New Year”

The pandemic meant that talks, events, support groups, litter picks and health walks were disrupted. Some activates went online, some were solitary walks, and recently some were close family supported events & updates are included on the relevant page. Even so we stayed busy and have put forward proposals to HCC, SBC, NHDC & GACCContinue reading “June 2020 Update”