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The Volunteer Alan Sumnall The Volunteer Volunteer Coordinator The Volunteers Newsletter of South Wales & Severn Waterways Spring/Summer 2014 www.canalrivertrust.org.uk/volunteer Welcome to the latest edition of our volunteer newsletter – we haven’t got a name as yet so we are calling it ‘the Volunteer’ for now but please send in your ideas for a name and there’ll be a cash prize for the chosen suggestion! You will see from the newsletter that there’s a lot going on in our region and I am always amazed to hear about the great work that our volunteers do. The dedication and enthusiasm is incredible and I’m grateful to all those who give up their spare time to make a difference to our local waterways. You may have heard that our new Chief Executive, Richard Parry, has recently launched the new Vision for the Canal & River Trust – living waterways that transform places and enrich lives. This is an inspiring Vision that you as volunteers have a real impact on and I’m sure you share with me the optimism for our future. As well as the Vision, our staff have also been learning about the new core Values – they are Caring, Local, Open, Involving, and Excellent These values drive our behaviours and it will be an obligation of all our people to ensure that we stick by these new Values if we are ever going to realise the Trust’s vision. Do speak to your local volunteer manager about the new Vision and Values as it is important that you at least understand them, and better still, adopt them whenever you are representing the Trust. It would be remiss of me not to mention the recent adverse weather which so badly affected our region – you can see some examples of this in the operations update in this newsletter – but I would like to give a special thanks to those volunteers who helped us through the recent storm and flood damage, particularly in Worcestershire. This showed the value of not just the regular working parties, but also having a pool of volunteers that we could call upon to help in a crisis. I also send a mention out to all our new volunteers and with the volunteer lock-keepers and rangers now on board, and the new welcome station at Saul Junction, I know that we will continue to grow our volunteer base and reach out to our local communities. Finally, I thought I’d share with you my personal experiences of volunteering. I am currently an Ambassador for Gloucestershire as part of the Local Enterprise Partnership - http://www.gfirstlep.com/gfirst-LEP/Get-Involved/ - and this gives me great satisfaction as I visit local schools to help mentor and advise school children from ages 13 up to 18. This includes special needs students and I am honoured to be able to give some degree of help in setting our young people on to a positive career path. Best wishes to all of you for the coming season and don’t forget you can contact me if you want to share your views, or have any queries: Phone: (01452) 318002 Email: [email protected] Operations Update The first quarter of 2014 has been a testing time for all involved within South Wales & Severn Waterways due to the onslaught of stormy weather causing damage in all regions: South Wales – we had 87 trees fall down due to high winds and also had a major engineering and construction project at Llanfoist following a towpath slippage due to an embankment becoming severely saturated. Please visit: http://canalrivertrust.org.uk/news-and-views/news/mon-and-brec-to-reopen-following-major-repairs Gloucestershire – Sharpness Port was battered by high tides and winds with the highest spring tide recorded in living memory (10.7 meters) Worcestershire – Diglis Basin was totally submerged by the River Severn, and both the Worcester-Birmingham and Droitwich canals had parts under water due to the floods with record levels recorded since gauges were installed. Diglis River Lock Sharpness Piers Volunteer Workboat Contracts Corner Mowing/grass cutting You have heard rumours of a volunteer workboat to be Collaboration between CRT Contracts and Ecologists utilised solely for volunteer projects along the Worcester- teams in 2007 saw the launch of standard mowing Birmingham and Droitwich canals. regimes across the BW network. These rumours are 100% accurate and CRT is pleased to The regimes were developed to take account of the needs announce that the volunteer workboat is now in of our diverse range of customers and stakeholders but Worcester! An ex-British Waterways workboat from balanced against the recognition of the emerging Huddersfield is to be refurbished and used solely by importance of the linear canal network as a haven for volunteers to complete a wide variety of tasks including wildflowers and insects, many of which are under threat water borne litter collection, offside vegetation in the wider environment. management, graffiti removal from bridges and creating The exact start and finishing of the mowing season varies habitats for wildlife. More information can be found at: according to the prevailing weather conditions but http://support.canalrivertrust.org.uk/index.php/get- generally the first cut is in early to mid-April and the last involved/appeal/build-a-volunteer-workboat/home/ cut Late September to early October If you would like to get involved, we are looking for Heavily used or trafficked sections of the canal, moorings, volunteer groups to ‘adopt’ the workboat and complete and those locations where safety or engineering issues identified tasks from a calendar. We are also looking for require are short mown up to 12 times per season. In possible Volunteer Helms; people to move the workboat other more remote locations or where there are specific for the adopting groups and to also maintain and benefits to wildlife the frequency, width and height of complete checks as required. More information to follow. cutting is greatly reduced during the season and may be For further information please contact the local as little as a once a year cut from the back of the volunteering team. hedgerow to the water’s edge. Left: the We are always willing to consider varying mowing workboat on regimes locally if there is an identified issue or need its journey which does not compromise safety or create an to imbalance with the needs of other users. Worcester For more information on our mowing please visit our webpage www.canalrivertrust.org.uk or contact: Paul Gibson, Contracts Works Supervisor [email protected] 07880-787-294 South Wales & Severn Waterways (SW&S) One question that our volunteers regularly ask us is “where and what is South Wales & Severn?” In short, we are the most diverse waterway region with a canal in a National Park (Brecon Beacons), Sharpness Port and the newly restored Droitwich Canals. CRT is split into 11 waterway regions, with SW&S being one of these. We cover six canals: Swansea, Monmouthshire & Brecon, Gloucester & Sharpness, Droitwich Barge & Junction, and Worcester-Birmingham (Diglis Basin to Wast Hill tunnel). In addition we cover the River Severn from Gloucester to Stourport. Flood Clear Up Volunteer Recognition Mugs The Worcestershire Towpath Taskforce (WTTF) Throughout February CRT had the pleasure of presenting helped our local teams to clean up the flood damage. The our hard working volunteers with recognition mugs. These local Construction Team also delivered Jetwasher have been presented to those volunteers who CRT has training. Huge thanks to Mark Abraham (Construction recorded over 100 hours in our volunteer system. This is a Supervisor) and Nick Trow (Waterway Operative) for roll-over database so once any volunteer has recorded 100 delivering this session. hours, your local Volunteer Task Manager (VTM) will be given a recognition mug to award. Left: Construction Supervisor Mark Abraham presents the theoretical of the course to members of the WTTF. Right: Nick Trow (left) delivering the practical training, with volunteers Above: Members of the Worcestershire Towpath Taskforce David Turner proudly displaying their recognition mugs during a well- (centre), and earned coffee break. Left to right: Adrian Hamlyn, Steve Barbara Westwood, Alistair Main, Chris Lovell, Volunteers Leader Howman Suzanne Byrne, and Bill Lambert. (right). Gloucestershire South Wales February saw the launce of The Swansea Canal Society (SCS) have been as busy as the first Gloucestershire ever during the Winter months. Highlights of tasks Towpath Taskforce. This completed include: is a practical work party - Creating wildflower beds with native plants donated by open to all to ‘come and The Bumblebee Trust have a go’. This has been - Holding canal exhibitions built on the success of the - Setting the hire of Canoes on the Swansea Canal - they Towpath Rangers based at launched their Canoe and Kayak Hire on Mothers Day Saul Junction with a huge based at the canoe store in Coed Gwilym Park, thanks to local Bridge Clydach. Over 100 people attended, young and old Keeper Michelle Crowther alike! for making this possible. It also gives me great pleasure to announce that the SCS Initially the group are to be won The 2013 Keep Wales Tidy Award. Well done to all! based at various bridge car parks along the canal helping to fill pot holes and repair fences. The group will work along the Gloucester & Sharpness Canal completing a wide variety of tasks helping the local team with maintenance. st Members of the SCS standing: Gareth Thomas (1 left), Martin Maintenance of Mile Marker Posts along the G&S Canal and Davies, Secretary/Maintenance Team Organiser (4th left), David members of the new Towpath Taskforce calling for more Henry, Chairman (centre) and Gordon Walker (2nd right).
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