Rivermouth Trust — Get Involved
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There are four ways in. The first one takes a Saturday morning and a pair of boots you do not mind ruining; the rest we will teach you on the bank.
No sign-up form, no induction evening, and none of your own equipment.
Turn up at the ford
Ferney Ford car park, half past eight, first Saturday of the month. Look for the trailer and the flasks, tell somebody your name, and they will pair you with a regular.
Do one job badly
Everybody starts on stakes or planting bags. You will be shown twice and then left to it, and somebody will quietly straighten your first three posts.
Stop at one
We finish at one o’clock whatever is left undone. Most people stand about at the tailgate for half an hour afterwards, which is where the trust actually gets built.
Work-party volunteers plant, fence and shift gravel one Saturday a month. Surveyors read a fixed point every month for a year. Bank hosts let us cross their land and keep an eye on a stretch. Committee volunteers do the minutes, the grant forms and the tea rota.
The one we are always short of is surveyors — forty minutes a month, in the same place, with a kit we lend you and a protocol on one laminated sheet. Nine years of that record is the only reason anybody believes our numbers.
Farmers, anglers, a retired hydrologist, a Year Five class with permission slips, and a great many people who simply live near a river and would rather it were better than it is.
The things people email us the week before their first Saturday.
Come to a First Saturday if you can give a morning. Give to the work if you cannot — the tree stock and the fencing wire have to be paid for either way.