If there’s one thing that concentrates a group’s mind, it’s an Annual General Meeting.

We’ve just had ours, with added food and drink to help concentrate us. As we’re officially in our tenth year, we’re still considering the September jamboree to mark a decade of greening – email us your ideas at greening.wymondham@gmail.com!

We’ve just added an exciting new project – our second this year after Rothbury Park. We’re working with Norwich Fringe at Moot Hill – helping to remove debris, thin the wood, and form paths for when it’s opened to the public. This has been devised in consultation with Helen Sibley, formerly SNDC’s Green Infrastructure Officer.

It’s a huge privilege to work in an area which is both an archaeological conundrum and a nature sanctuary. Its ponds are home to great crested newts and its woodland home to bats, wild bees, birds – and a 600-year-old oak!

We are also still doing basic work in the adjacent Kett’s Park wood ahead of rejoining forces with Norwich Fringe in the autumn.

And the RHS are coming to Browick Community Orchard early this month! Three of their experts will be sharing their advice with us on all things fruit trees, vegetable growing and planting generally. We’ll be proudly showing them our rainwater catchment system, willow arbour and compost area as well as the orchard itself. In the evening, there’s a Q&A event at the Scout Hall in Jessop Road, Norwich, NR2 3JF.

We’re delighted by all the comments we’ve had on Rothbury Park – if you’ve seen the organisers doing a raindance while watering frequently during our prolonged dry spells, please dance with them. We are collaborating with Norfolk Wildlife Trust to measure what improvements happen as a result of our work down the line.

Last month, BBC Radio Norfolk came to Friarscroft Wood to find out about what happens there and on our other projects. It was hard to praise highly enough the volunteer spirit of Wymondham and what can be achieved together.

As summer comes in, we’ll be looking for help balsam bashing, for those of you who enjoy being in and beside the Tiffey! Our weekly E.coli results are now on our website. Our regular testing shows high levels of phosphate and nitrate, which leads to the growth of the unsightly filamentous algae reported in Becketswell Park. But overall, the river is in moderate health and still supports a fairly decent range of wildlife (including plastic ducks during the highly successful Duck Race last month!)

Finally, please visit our plant stall at the Wymondham Food and Drink Festival at the end of the month – come and chat to us there!