As from January 2025 there will be a change to the pattern of the Friends work mornings. Instead of every week, there will be a work morning on the Second Monday each month.
If anyone would like to join our team, then please use the Website as first point of contact.
I am very much hoping that if you are reading this notice you may already be familiar with the lovely Leap Valley and have noticed how well the volunteer group look after it.
Due to the demographic changing, due to an ageing group and relocation of an important member we are looking for new members to join our small work party.
We currently work on a Monday morning but this may need to change to weekends if this suits you better.
If you think you would be interested in finding out more please use the contacts page on the website.
The Friends of Leap Valley realised the need for another bench where the stone bridge crosses the stream. This is a good resting place between the other seats in the valley and also a lovely shaded spot under the tree canopy to relax and gaze at the stream and watch the passers by, just like this lovely lady did. We have to thank Downend Round Table for their grant to enable the purchase and installation of the bench. The grants are awarded using funds raised from the Bonfire and Fireworks event that the Round Table run in King George V Playing Fields in November. The community will now benefit from their generous donation.
On one of the rare dry days in the valley, the team took a third from many previously split clumps of snowdrops and planted them around the valley. They have performed particularly well in this wet weather we have been experiencing.
See the minutes of the meeting below
Today while the friends were out on their usual work morning, we received the most wonderful thank you for our efforts from the children and teachers of The Great Expectations Day Nursery. They not only gave us a beautiful hand crafted Christmas card with a box of biscuits for our breaktime but also sang us a carol. To see these young folk enjoying our valley every much as we do is always such a pleasure. Thank you all so very much. You lifted our hearts as high as the tallest trees.
A very observant dog walker kindly sent this photo to us of a Slow Worm seen on a path in Leap Valley.
With long, smooth, shiny, grey or brown bodies, slow worms look very similar to tiny snakes. In fact they are legless lizards and are quite harmless.
Although found throughout mainland Britain, they are most common in Wales and south-west England. They are absent from Ireland.
Slow worms like humid conditions and emerge from their hiding places at dusk or after rain to hunt for food. They spend the winter hibernating under piles of leaves or within tree roots.
If attacked by a predator, a slow worm can shed its tail to escape, although it never grows back fully.
Thank you Philip
The Friends of Leap Valley 
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