Author Archives: Friends of Great Ashby

Friends of Great Ashby are please to announce that Usman Butt, Ahmadiyya Muslim community for Stevenage, who lives in Great Ashby, has accepted becoming co- patron. At the same time Faiza Ginai Spittles and Adam Spittles have been appointed to the management committee.

In June 2020, FoGA conducted a ‘Facebook Gossip’ to create ideas about how £65.5k (the then amount of annual budget the GACC were spending, and the reserves the GACC were holding. The gossip log is attached below and summarised. The real issue is that there is no engagement from NHDC (who are Hitchin, Letchworth &Continue reading “Update on Community Proposals”

Meeting in the car park off Serpentine Close, Great Ashby, Stevenage. The Juniors are older then the Little Litter Leaders, who are still welcome to bring their adults along too! Risk Assessment

Leaves cleared to facility more active travel with a request that NHDC check when the next eight weekly sweeping cycle is due. What3words toxic.dent.fired NHDC Ref: AF385107181

A big thank you to Bonnie & Andy who joined our small team clearing the pheasant wire, which is a risk to little people, pets and wildlife. Project in Claypitsprings will continue over the next few weeks. Please see here for our work in support of the Great Ashby & District Park Greenspaces Plan.

We will be meeting at 9am for about two hours (until 11am) to clear chicken wire and re-stand some posts. We may also clear some accumulated rubbish from Brooches Wood.

A small team attended and survey for the balance of the Winter Woodland Works, which will continue in Claypit Springs & Brooches starting the 14/11/2021.

The North Herts District Council beautifully stewards the Great Ashby Woodlands and District Park, which is shared with and enjoyed by our friends in Stevenage, especially from Chells Manor, Chrysalis Park, St Nicholas & Woodfield (‘The Great Ashby Greater Area’). This amenity welcome will soon be extended to East Herts District Council (EHDC) when theContinue reading “Safely walking the Great Ashby Rights of Way”

At the first litter community litter pick of the year, FoGA were delighted to make a FIVE STAR Litter Leadership Award. The award will now be notified to our patrons, Sandra Barr & Tim Lee, for recording by our Chair, Terry Tyler. The team picked the rights of way around Hangbois Woods, and surveyed theContinue reading “Little Litter Leadership Award”

Sunday 7th November 2021 – FoGA Litter Pick, Meet 3pm at junction of Fairfield Way and Great Ashby Way. A small team of Friends of Great Ashby (FoGA) volunteers will be meeting to ‘walk the woods’, survey the area for Winter Woodland Work (see details below) and pick the obvious litter. The event follows theContinue reading “Litter Pick Sunday, 7th November 2021, 3pm”