We hope that local residents will be able to join in a planting project, orgainised by the local voluntary group, On-Board, as part of its participation in the RHS Britain in Bloom & It’s Your Neighbourhood Launch Events 2010.

The concept they have chosen to shape the event around is “mass greening/creating a river of green” across the UK so the idea is that the launch events would be centred around planting. They are hoping to catch the press attention particularly because this can be linked into the fact that 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity.

On 24th March the RHS will be organising a national press launch before the local events, to announce this is happening and start generating the media buzz. In partnership with a local group the RHS will stage a “greening event” which the press would be invited to attend.

June Player is entering the On-Board Community Project into this event and she now finalising their involvement before registering it with them, which has to be done as soon as possible. They have been informed that we will be planting on Saturday 27th March in the afternoon (which will last for approximately 2 hours) – actual time will be given this coming week. Can you let us know if you are able to come that day and at what time?

The Council’s Parks Department are kindly helping in this event and there will be 100 whips of a variety of trees and shrubs. There should be a good mix of students, other locals, and ‘On-Boarders’, etc to ‘dig in’!

Many thanks to those who came to the recent Linear Park Litter Pick which was most successful.