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First up, Team Tawd and Ranger Chris walked through the valley for their first Friday session of 2023. They walked armed with pickers and bags and managed to collect an impressive amount of litter. Next up, we continued are Freshwater Biological Association priority habitat surveying on the river Tawd. Mapping water bodies like the Tawd … Read more
There has been a lot happening at Friends of Tawd Valley this week. Firstly, we had the fantastic Boxing Day walk that had an impressive turnout. The walk took place within Tawd Valley Park and despite the weather everyone seemed to have a really good time. Next up, we’ve been busy working alongside Samuel Gibson … Read more
We at Friends of Tawd Valley hope you all had a wonderful Christmas period. As we fast approach the new year, we would love to share with you what we have been up to in the community in the last week or so… Boxing Day was the perfect opportunity to burn off all the Christmas … Read more
Early December highlights for FoTV and Tawd Valley Park First up, a big thank you to everyone who joined us at for our Festive Coffee Morning. The cakes, biscuits and drinks all went down a treat as we chatted the morning away. In other news, the FoTV Classroom is looking a lot more official as … Read more
Please find below information about Skelmersdale’s u3a Christmas social event in December.
Recently, the Ribble Rivers Trust, WLBC Ranger Service and Groundworks NW visited the Tawd Valley Park to conduct electro-fishing along a stretch of the river Tawd. The team wanted to collect data on fish species that could be living both upstream and downstream of Cobbs Clough Weir. Even though the weather wasn’t ideal, the troop … Read more
Plenty happening over the past week or so… First up, Team Tawd and the WLBC Ranger Service have begun work repairing the fishing pegs at Half-Mile Fishing Lake. Check out their hard work below: Next up, FoTV have been continuing their important riverfly monitoring survey sessions along the river Tawd. Some positive results in this … Read more
Please find below Skelmersdale’s u3a meeting dates and meeting topics going forward. Formed in 2011, Skelmersdale U3A encourages members to participate in leisure, social and educational activities. We are a small voluntary organization where retired and semi-retired people of all ages, skills and interests meet for friendship, mutual interests and hobbies in order to prove … Read more
The rain stayed away on Saturday morning whilst our team of epic volunteers gathered behind the allotments on Ashurst to begin digging the long and narrow drainage trench for the wetland/scrape project. WLBC Ranger Chris and Team Tawd had prepped the ground on Friday, by spray painting red marker lines on where they wanted the … Read more
