Hi all
I thought I would start by letting you know that
we do listen to your feedback at Avon Tyrrell and whilst I am sure you all know
we are a charity, UK Youth, and therefore have to manage our money well, when
we can do something to improve what we provide we will do it. So I am very happy to let you know that we
have managed to replace the chairs in Avon Lodge and this now makes the
communal area with the leather sofas and flat screen tv a very nice space
indeed for the lodge users. We have also
managed to buy from eBay a chiller deck for our shop and can now provide
sandwiches, salads milk and various other chilled items for our guests. We hope you will agree these two purchases
will help improve the Avon Tyrrell experience for users.
We have not
stopped there as last week we were also very fortunate in having three
corporate volunteer groups all of whom worked their socks off to help improve
the grounds and help work towards restoration of the Grade II listed grounds. We are very grateful to all the three groups named below, thank you for your hard work.
We started
with 50 volunteers from IBM who helped with one team clearing an area of
vegetation by our heathlands which has SINC status to help restore the heathland. The second team helped work on restoring our
picnic shelter near to the main lake and the final team worked on opening an
area of our bike track which was becoming unusable. Everybody worked extremely hard and they
finished the day by playing on our high ropes or building a raft.
The
following day we had a smaller team of 8 volunteers from Ethicon Endo Surgery
who did an excellent days work clearing an area to the North of the main House
to reveal the outside courtyard wall that was approached by the Holmoak track
when the House was originally built.
The
Thursday saw another group of Volunteers fro B&Q continuing the great work
previous B&Q volunteers had been doing in clearing the vegetation to the
South of our lakes so we can return the grounds to their heritage and open the
the pathway up around the lake so all visitors have full accessibility. The area they cleared had not been seen
before by even the longer serving members of the staff and everyone agreed what
a difference the work being done was making.
To find out
more about Avon Tyrrell Outdoor Activity Centre and the many varied
opportunities we offer please contact us on Tel; 01425 672347 or email info@ukyouth.org or view our website www.avontyrrell.org.uk Remember… experience – learn – develop
