Albrighton Trust Moat And Gardens

Monday 17th February Creative Crafts activity is fully booked, we have a couple of places available for the Wild about Nature afternoon session and a few spots available for the Coached Angling activity. Activities are £5 per person and payment in advance is required. If your interested, please contact us on 01902 372441 or email moat@albrightontrust.org.uk

Do you enjoy working with people? Would you like to be part of a small, dedicated and friendly team? Are you flexible and adaptable individual with a couple of hours a week to spare? It doesn’t have to be every week! If so, we would love to hear from you! As a volunteer you will be able to contribute to the running of the Albrighton Moat and Gardens by getting involved in a variety of activities such as ground maintenance, horticultural and woodcraft work, helping support groups or activities or helping out with fundraising events.
If you would like to support the Albrighton Trust either through fundraising or volunteering please contact us on 01902 372441 or email moat@albrightontrust.org.uk - we would love to hear from you.

We are delighted Claire will be running a Lino Cutting Workshop on the 21st March at the Moat and Gardens. Its a fabulous way to spend a creative Saturday, if you are interested in attending please book directly with The Art Lady.

Our woodcraft volunteers have worked with two volunteers from the 'Live at Home' Scheme, Shifnal to make plaques for the trees they are planting around Shifnal as part of their Shifnal Blossoms fundraising project. Everyone at the Moat and Gardens wishes them well in their fundraising.

First Half term of 2020 coming up soon and we are running exciting activities during the week.
Monday 17th February Creative Crafts Make a Bird Feeder to take home to feed our native birds during this critical time of the year.... 10am & 1pm sessions. £5 per person
Wednesday 19th February Wild about Nature Enjoy our Wild about Nature sessions, fun activities and games while learning about the natural world. Learn how to light a natural fire using a fire steel or you could create clay creatures, handmade bird feeders, leaf pressed designs. Every session is different. 10am & 1pm. £5 per person.
Thursday 20th February Coached Angling Coaches available to help novice or inexperienced Anglers, they will learn to put bait on a hook, cast a line, land a fish, unhook fish safely, handle fish and return safely to the water. Equipment supplied - 10am &1pm sessions. £5 per person
Payment required in advance, to book you place please contact us on 01902 372441 or email moat@albrightontrust.org.uk
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A group from the RAF Cosford Defence College of Technical Training kindly volunteered today at the Moat. They installed cables to extend the reach of our wildlife observation system and also got their hands dirty by turning the compost over and clearing silt and weeds out of one of our ponds. A BIG thank you from everyone at the Moat and Gardens for your hard work.

We have what we thought are squirrel proof bird feeders, we've had to screw the lids down because they learnt how to get the lids off! Now this clever little chap has learnt how to get in and out of the protective cage...not sure what we do next?

A beautiful sunrise to welcome us to work this morning; the Moat and Gardens are wonderful regardless of the time of year.

Everybody at the Albrighton Trust, would like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a delightful New Year. Thank You to everyone supporting us and keeping this amazing charity running.

Congratulations to Lee for achieving his Cast Award Level II on-site this week and another congratulations to the seven students from Telford College for achieving Cast Award Level 1 yesterday.

Thank you to everyone attending and making it an enjoyable day. A lot of wonderful reindeers were made on Saturday with a busy workshop.

It was a funny enjoyable Christmas Party at the Moat yesterday. We had volunteers, angling coaches, supporters and friends attend. We played many party games including pass the parcel and we had a visit from Santa aka Pete handing out presents.

We are feeling excited to the volunteer Christmas Party at the Moat today.

If you haven’t bought your loved ones a special gift yet for Christmas. We still have plenty of handmade woodcraft items we are selling, built by our volunteered woodcraft team. We are open on Saturday 14th between 10am – 3pm if you would like to pop into the moat to purchase one of our lovelies.

The Albrighton Trust was contacted by the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre to take part in their community pantomime project, 'Paving the Way'. Our volunteers were asked to create an art display of butterflies to be included in a larger art installation with the theme of Dick Whittington. The art installation is on display to the public from 10th December to 12th January during the pantomime season. Several schools, groups, organisations and charities were involved in the display, as you can see, what a great job everybody did.

We would like to thank The Arts Society Wrekin for kindly raising £800 for us when they ran their Annual Festive Talk and Tea event at the Red House in Albrighton. Please read the full article in the Shropshire Star by clicking on the link.
www.shropshirestar.com/…/donations-for- shropshire-charity-…/