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The Great British Spring Clean Comes to Weaverham. Help keep Weaverham tidy and become one of this year’s litter picking heroes in support of the Great British Spring Clean 2024. The Weaverham Trust and the team are back on Saturday 23rd March. Join us for Keep Britain Tidy’s The Environment […]

Great British Spring Clean – 23rd March 2024

March 10, 2024 in Environment / Events / Litter Pick tagged Cleanup / Events / litter pick / Litterpick / trust / Weaverham / weaverham trust by peter

The Weaverham Trust planted another round of daffodils, purchased by the money from the Coop. The sites chosen this year were the junction of Wood Lane and Northwich Road, and the grass verge by Bottom Pitch. Further bulbs will be planted by hand at Bottom Pitch where the verge was […]

The Weaverham Trust Plants More Daffodils

October 15, 2023 in Bulbs / Environment / Flowers / News / Planting tagged Bottom Pitch / Bulbs / Coop / Flowers / trust / Weaverham / weaverham trust by peter

Ready for the off! The Winter Litter Pick on Saturday 29th January 2022 was one of the busiest and most productive held to date. Over 40 bags were collected by over 30 people plus the Weaverham Sea Scouts Beavers and Cubs. Unfortunately the chilly weather turned to a heavy rain […]

Productive Winter Litter Pick

January 30, 2022 in Environment / Events / Litter Pick / Uncategorized tagged litter pick / trust / Weaverham / weaverham trust by peter

The final bulbs of the 2021 batch were planted on Saturday 18th December 2021 on the corner of Lakehouse Field. The poor weather had delayed the hand planting. It is hoped to plant more flowers next year with the sponsorship money from Coop members.

Final Daffodil Planting of 2021

December 19, 2021 in Bulbs / Environment / Flowers / Planting tagged Bulbs / Coop / Flowers / trust / Weaverham / weaverham trust by peter

The third year of bulb planting took place on 8th November. The locations chosen were the area on the corner of Elm Road and Lime Avenue and the corner on the hill on Wallerscote Lane. The planting took place in the late evening and the pictures are very poor.

Phase 3 – Autumn 2021 Bulb Planting

November 8, 2021 in Bulbs / Environment / Flowers / Planting / Uncategorized tagged Bulbs / Planters / weaverham trust by peter

You may have seen large mounds of soil on bottom pitch recently. We know that people have been asking about it on social media. Don’t worry we know its there! A local resident kindly offered us some top soil and about 7 tonnes have been moved onto Bottom […]

Mystery Mounds on Bottom Pitch

April 26, 2021 in Environment by clare

Kerry Parvin of the BBC came to interview Glen Gidley (chairman) and Alan Mills (vice chairman) about the Trust’s bulb planting in Weaverham. The interview was shown on BBC NW 6:30 News on 25th March 2021. As well as the interview, Kerry took some very arty pictures of the daffodils. […]

Weaverham Trust’s Daffodils On BBC NW News

March 26, 2021 in BBC / Bulbs / Environment / Flowers / News / Planting tagged Bottom Pitch / Bulbs / Donations / Flowers / Planters / trust / Weaverham / weaverham trust by peter

The bulbs planted last year on the west side of the village are in flower, to compliment those on Northwich Road and Bottom Pitch. It is hoped to raise funds this year to enable to us to plant on the corner of Wallerscote Road on the hill. Hanging Gate Junction […]

Second Planting Of Bulbs in Flower

March 23, 2021 in Bulbs / Environment / Flowers / News / Planting tagged Bottom Pitch / Bulbs / Flowers / trust / Weaverham / weaverham trust by peter

A team of Trust members planted over 800 more tete-a-tete daffodil bulbs on Bottom Pitch. The day was a pleasant change from the wet and stormy weather of late. Bottom Pitch is proving popular with Weaverhan residents and offers an outside area for Corvid-19 safe meetings, walking and dog walking. […]

Weaverham Trust plant more bulbs on Bottom Pitch

November 15, 2020 in Bulbs / Environment / Flowers / Planting tagged Bottom Pitch / Bulbs / weaverham trust by peter

On October 8th, The Weaverham Trust had another 220 metres of bulbs planted. The sites chosen were : Opposite The Hanging Gate The junction of West Road and Forest Street On the hill on Sandy Lane This year’s choice of bulbs was limited to two flowerings of yellow daffodils […]

Phase 2 Bulb Planting

October 9, 2020 in Bulbs / Environment / Flowers / Planting tagged Bulbs / Flowers / weaverham trust by peter