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Two silt traps - Five ponds - Leverhulme Park
Who doesn't love digging silt, soil and sand out of a hillside to create five ponds? It turned out to be a pretty obvious answer as only...


Lessons from water - Sluuuuurp!
How lucky were we with the weather today for our task on Leverhulme Park? We were digging out a pond and mud from silt traps, channeling...


Hedge Enough
It was NEWT's third and final hedgelaying task for the year and the final stretch of the hedge to lay outside SS Osmunds and Andrews....


Regrowth through hacking and slashing
Newt returned for our 2nd of 3 visits to the hedgerow outside SS Osmunds and Andrews. As the work began we started by freeing the...


Dragged through a hedge backwards!
Today Bolton NEWT were out on New House Farm playing fields practising the ancient art of hedge laying. Chris, Simon, Del, Jasmine and...


Magical Winter Forest
On the 21st December Bolton NEWT held it's second Christmas Event, which is now becoming an annual tradition. The first year we hosted...


Deep and crisp and even
A crisp clear morning greeted the NEWT team as we trundled through Leverhulme Park with our trailer of tools. Our task today was clearing...


Garstang Allotments - a start!
NEWT are proud to present another community endeavor. We are now working on the allotments on Garstang Road in Breightmet with a view to...


NEWT Halloween Spooktacular 2019
Wooooooooooo woooooooo woooooooo! What a fantastic turnout for our second ever Halloween Event for the children of Breightmet and Bolton....


Preparations for Spooktacular!
We don't know about you but here at NEWT we are really looking forward to our Halloween Spooktacular event on the 26th October. Today...
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