As a group, and with your help, we can offer to help the Council and their contractor with the simpler but more labour intensive tasks. This may mean that some jobs, such as clearing cut hay, are carried out when most needed.

Offers for all types of skills and experiences are most welcome. Below are some tasks that come to mind and you can view the Habitat Management Action Plan on the right.

• Physical tasks:
  • Litter picking - a regular task throughout the year
  • Hay raking - a summer's day task
  • Seed collecting
  • Clearing scrub, brambles and coppicing
  • Making and erecting bat and bird boxes
  • Repairing information boards
  • Patrolling the area and reporting problems to the council
• Social tasks
  • Leading general working parties
  • Speaking to groups about Biss Meadows and the Friends
  • Manning exhibition stands
  • Promoting to press, radio, TV
  • Contacting volunteers and friends
• Administrative tasks
  • Writing letters for grants
  • Writing letters to organisations, radio, TV, press to gain supporters and help
  • Helping to find businesses and NGOs to provide a variety of sponsorships
  • Undertaking surveys of the nature and wildlife
  • Finding other suitable web sites to link to this web site and asking them to link
• Specialist tasks
  • Writing articles on the nature and wildlife of Biss Meadows
  • Speaking about the nature and wildlife of Biss Meadows either to the Friends or the public
  • Leading specialist working parties
  • Producing educational material for schools