Stanton Woodland & Wildlife Action Group 

Annual Report from the Chair, Aubrey Warren 

9/6/2023 

Our group has had another successful year, fundraising and improving the wildlife habitat that is Sid’s Piece. 

Our winter work parties commenced in October and ended in February. Progress was made clearing certain areas to allow more light in at ground level and therefore encourage wildflower rejuvenation. This was boosted in late winter by professional conservationist Simon Wriggall, which we paid for. 

In the autumn we were disappointed that our long serving committee member and Chair, Linda Grixti, resigned from the group, to be replaced by myself. 

As ever, we are continually looking for additional members of our steering group but haven’t succeeded this year. We have had various local people join work parties but we’ve mostly been disappointed with the number of volunteers we get. 

Thanks once again to the Sir Kenneth and Lady Carlise, we were able to hold our annual fundraising event – a Plants and Crafts Fair - at Wyken Hall in April. This was a great success and we did manage to get adequate numbers of helpers. 

In the spring we bought a second-hand metal shed, which has been erected in a partially hidden spot at Sid’s Piece. This sits on a concrete slab base, the slabs having been donated to us by a local resident. This is being used to store all our various pieces of equipment plus signage we use at the Wyken Plants and Crafts events. 

In March we were visited at Sid’s Piece by Eliza Leat of the RSPB, to assess if our area was suitable for spreading a bird seed mix designed to encourage Turtle Doves. They were aware that Turtle Doves have been seen locally for the last two seasons. It meant us having to cut areas of grass on a weekly basis and then scattering approximately 6kg of seed each week until July. We agreed to do this, and feeding commenced mid April. Although we’re unaware of any Turtle Dove sightings at Sid’s Piece this year so far, we do know of reported sightings close by. 



**2021** 

**2022** 

## **STANTON WOODLAND & WILDLIFE ACTION GROUP** 

## **Income & Expenditure Accounts (1st June 2021 to 31st May 2022)** 

## **Income** 

## **Expenditure** 

|**Income**||||**Expenditure**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Paid In**||||**Cheque **|**Paid Out**|**Balance**|
|**Brought Forward**|**9606.21**||||||**9606.21**|
|||21th|Jun|Linda Grixti (Web Hosting)|200049|42.00|9564.21|
|||27th|Oct|Zurich (Insurance)|200050|307.78|9256.43|
|||30th|Jan|Linda Grixti (Web Hosting)|200051|42.00|9214.43|
|||8th|Feb|Roger Cheason (Sumup Card Reader)|200052|27.99|9186.44|
|||21st|Feb|Ian Shilling (Posters & fliers)||71.53|9114.91|
|Test Sumup Transaction|1.96|8th|Mar||||9116.87|
|||10th|Mar|Ian Shilling (Date patches for signs)||18.00|9098.87|
|||30th|Mar|S. Riggall (Coppicing)|200053|480.00|8618.87|
|Donation for willow withies|30.00|30th|Mar||||8648.87|
|||31st|Mar|Ian Shilling  (Brackets for bench  )||48.00|8600.87|
|Stall Holders|480.00|24th|Apr||||9080.87|
|Gate Cash|1609.50|24th|Apr||||10690.37|
|Gate Card|784.70|24th|Apr||||11475.07|
|||30th|Apr|Ian Shilling ((Facebook  advertising )||8.00|11467.07|
|||!0th|May|Contribution to Bench||244.00|11223.07|
|||!0th|May|Donation to Stanton Musicians||30.00|11193.07|
|||12th|May|Linda Grixti (Printer Cartridges)||36.65|11156.42|



**Total In 2906.16 Total Out 1355.95 Surplus 1550.21**