Cardiff Rivers Group Bute Park Canal Feeder

Another successful event at the canal feeder last weekend ! Between both weekends, we managed to clear from it’s source at the river Taff up to the North Road Ambulance Depot – great work. We aim to return to this area next month, during Keep Wales Tidy Week [ see their website for further details on that ]

Read all about last weekend on the Guardian Blog, and check out the photographs on our galleries.

The CRG Calendar has been updated with our future dates – view it at the bottom of this page. You’ll notice that our next event is the Great Taff Tidy – click on the poster for more information.

thanks,

dafydd

Cardiff Rivers Group Bute Park Cardiff Rivers Group Bute Park Event : August 21st

Cardiff Rivers Group made a good start on the Feeder Canal in Bute Park last weekend, with around 20 volunteers working for a couple of hours, we managed to collect 30 sacks of rubbish, 2 trolleys, a roll of carpet, several traffic cones as well as move a lot of fallen branches from the waterway, helping it’s flow and appearance. Photos from this event are availalbe on our flickr galleries.

We aim to continue this work next weekend [Saturday the 21st], slowly moving towards the castle.

Tasks will include;

• A litter pick on both banks of the feeder and general Taff Trail area,
• Move & stack wood away from the edge of the feeder,
• Saw and move fallen branches from the water,
• Wading through the Feeder, removing as much debris as possible, improving the appearance of the Feeder as well as the flow of the water.

Volunteers are to meet at 09:45 for safety briefing & kit. This will be done from Dave’s truck, which will be parked within the park, around the Ambulance Depot. Close car parking options are; Pontcanna Fields changing room [ CF11 9HX ], within the Tal y Bont student halls [ CF14 3AS ] or near the North Road Ambulance Depot off North Road. See map below for general area.

Please wear suitable footwear and pack sensibly, waterproofs if the forecast is poor, water if it’s warm ! We will provide the rest of the equipment. Let us know if you are coming so we can ensure we have enough equipment for all of you. Don’t forget to join our facebook group / facebook events. Oh, and it would be great if you could add your own photographs to our album.

Charity walk in aid of NSPCC

John, a regular volunteer with CRG has asked me to post a link to an event he’s taking part in, in aid of NSPCC;

“Greetings fellow Taff Tidiers, I’m going to attempt to walk and stumble 25 miles on September 5th for the NSPCC – ‘Stop Cruelity Campaign’ and I would be very grateful if you’d consider making a small donation.

Thank you very much

John”

justgiving.com/john-wilkinson1 / nspcc.org.uk/HACK

Cardiff Rivers Group Bute Park Event : August 15th

Hello

Hope everyone is having a good summer ! We said that Cardiff Rivers Group would have a summer break and not have any events during August, we lied. We’re having a short, city centre event this weekend. Hope you can make it !

After receiving a few requests from our members to tackle the state of the feeder canal that runs through Bute Park, we’ve decided to dedicate next Sunday morning to work on improving this waterway.

This is a fairly large project and we will be looking to come back later in the month and in September when we will hopefully be joined by some other groups to tackle around the ambulance station and castle. More on future events soon.

Tasks on Sunday will include;

• A litter pick on both banks of the feeder and general Taff Trail area,
• Move & stack wood away from the edge of the feeder,
• Saw and move fallen branches from the water,
• Wading through the Feeder, removing as much debris as possible, improving the appearance of the Feeder as well as the flow of the water.

Volunteers are to meet at the source of the Feeder, at the bridge at Blackweir at 09:45 for safety briefing & kit. This location is on the Taff Trail – an easy walk / cycle from town centre along the River Taff. Closest car parking would be at Pontcanna Fields changing room [ CF11 9HX ], within the Tal y Bont student halls [ CF14 3AS ] or near the North Road Ambulance Depot. See map below for general area.

Please wear suitable footwear and bring waterproofs. We will provide the rest of the equipment. Let us know if you are coming so we can ensure we have enough equipment for all of you.

louise.tambini[at]keepwalestidy.org or Facebook

thanks,

Dafydd