Volunteer Working Parties

Volunteer Working Parties: 2011

The Wey & Arun Canal Trust have several volunteer working parties on sections of the canal, performing a variety of different tasks, from keeping the public sections of the canal and towpath tidy, working on sections of the canal that are on private land where the landowners permission has been obtained, bringing sections of the canal back to navigable standards and even rebuilding locks and bridges. There are many pictures of their work on this site, especially in the Walks section of this site.

As more of the canal is ‘opened up’ there is more to do and even though membership has increased significantly over the years more people are always needed. If you wish to volunteer for any of these working parties or become a member of the Trust contact the Wey & Arun Canal Trust. Alternatively, you can find contact details for the various working parties in the editions of Working Party News that can be found on the trust’s website. These will also give you an insight into what the various groups do.

When I Became a member in January 2010 I joined two of these groups, The Mid Week Working Party and the Fortnightly Monday Group known affectionately as ‘Mrs Bucket’ as they do a lot of work ‘keeping up appearances’ (assuming you are familiar with the television comedy).

The first year proved to be good fun and also a great source of satisfaction as we achieved various targets set us and a record of the work done can be seen below. My original intention was to repeat the process for 2011 but several factors have led me to change my mind. Firstly, for various reasons I have been unable to attend quite so frequently and also quite a lot of the work done would be a straight repetition of what was done in 2010, after all how many pictures do you want of the grass being cut at Haybarn. So it is now my intention to only include new projects and these will be listed in the What’s New Page.