Residential work weekends are a great opportunity to work on a site over two days and socialise in the evenings.

This year GVCV visited the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust site at Woorgreens, Forest of Dean.

Woorgreens | Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust

The 42-acre nature reserve is a mix of lake, marsh and heathland habitats. The group spent two days helping to clear former plantation trees and saplings from the heathland.

The group were surprised to find the heard from long horn cows encountered on at last years residential at Tidenham nature reserve has now been moved to Woorgreens. Fortunately these gentle giants were good company and didn’t prevent the work progressing.

The group stayed for two nights in a nice local pub and enjoyed live music and a community raffle on the Saturday night.