| Recent Activities by Volunteers |
| 2026 |
| 5th May : Town Beck inspection from Church St to packhorse bridge. Some Balsam and rubbish removed. An oil slick running down the full length which seems to start at the bridge over to the church field. There seems to be none in the beck west of Church St. I cannot identify the source. |
| 4th May : Some of the Newtown allotment team for Plot 8b - weeding, grass cutting and sowing seeds in the greenhouse and directly into the beds. |
| 4th May : Greendyke inspection, clearing the culvert and collecting rubbish. |
| 1st May : Walking the upper part of Back Beck, took out some Himalayan balsam, cleared some litter. |
| 25th Apr : School wetlands, removing some pendulous sedge scrapes and replacing it with 'home grown' meadowsweet. Litter picking. |
| 13th Apr : Wildflower planting |
| 11th Apr : Tree nursery allotment on Lower Stamp Hill, wildflower planting |
| 21st Mar : Setting up the Memorial Hall for the AEG 10th Anniversary Concert with Skipton Brass Band |
| 14th Mar : Annual spring clean and litter pick |
| 7th Mar : Ghyll House Farm for the hedge rescue operation |
| 28th Feb : Methodist Graveyard, cutting back vigorous bramble along the back wall margin, and strimming of the long grass. |
| 21st Feb : Football field clearing woodchip and trimming the Scout HQ hedge. |
| 13th Feb : Continue tidying up in the Memorial Recreation area, MUGA bank and Scout Hall hedge. |
| 7th Feb : Church Orchard pruning. |
| 7th Feb : Memorial Recreation area, litter picking in the wooded wildlife margins, tidy up the bottom of the Muga bank and coppice a self seeded willow. |
| 31st Jan : Church Orchard - lifting and replanting Rhubarb, starting a wildlife wood pile, pruning a willow and planting the cuttings to make a screen, levelling new grass area. |
| 26th Jan : Added three new apple saplings to the Craven Green “orchard”. |
| 24th Jan : Planting saplings in the Church Field, and over winter tidying up in the Church Orchard. |
| 23rd Jan : Saplings lifted from allotment 4A ready for planting on the 24th . |
| 17th Jan : Pt 2 Cuckoo’s Nest woodlands management. |
| 10th Jan : Cuckoo’s Nest woodlands management. |
| 2025 |
| 13th Dec: Cuckoo’s Nest tree planting and maintenance. |
| 6th Dec: Cuckoo’s Nest preparation for tree planting and maintenance. |
| 29th Nov: AEG stall manning at the Christmas Fair. |
| 28th Nov: Assisting with the village Christmas Fair marquee erection and take down. |
| 15th Nov: CAA Annual Review “How Green is our Village 2025”. |
| 8th Nov: Craven Crescent Green pre-winter clearing and tidying, |
| 7th Nov: Bee and Butterfly observer’s season end review. |
| 5th Nov: Potting plants. |
| 1st Nov: Orchard clearing. |
| 29th Oct: Back Beck walking, checking and clearing the stream of dumped rubbish. |
| 27th Oct: Bat transect 3 walked, 5 species recorded. |
| 25th Oct: Helping at the Civic Society Autumn Fair. |
| 23rd Oct: Bat transect 1 walked, 2 species recorded. |
| 18th Oct: Tidying Annie’s plot and Stamp Hill Allotment |
| 15th Oct: Bat transect 2 walked, 2 species recorded. |
| 11th Oct: Sowing yellow rattle and planting wildflower plugs in the Methodist Graveyard meadow. |
| 10th Oct: Bat walk with the Saplings |
| 10th Oct: Scarifying in the Methodist Graveyard meadow. |
| 9th Oct.: Refill Pop-Up Stall (Mount Hermon Church Coffee Pot) |
| 5th Oct: Church Orchard tidy up and retrieving fallen Russets. |
| 27th Sep: School, Hoffman Wood Field and Methodist Graveyard meadow raking. |
| 24th Sep: First walk of the new bat transects. |
| 22nd Sep: School Side strimmers and Gala Field raking. |
| w/b 22nd Sep: Delivering zero carbon leaflets. |
| 15th Sep: Climate Action Addingham meeting. |
| 13th Sep: Skipton Road Bank the great autumnal rake off. |
| 8th Sep: Craven Green Crescent big autumnal tidy up. |
| 6th Sep: Cuckoo’s Nest raking off the grass in the wild flower meadow. |
| 30th Aug: Church orchard management, tidying and fruit picking. |
| 26th Aug: Craven Green Crescent hedge trimming. |
| 24th Aug: Craven Green Crescent hedge trimming. |
| 23rd Aug: Methodist Church Graveyard grass raking and collecting. Mem Hall Rec / Gala field snipping and bagging seed heads. |
| 21st Aug: Balsam bashing in the becks. |
