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Kathy Henderson
Kathy Henderson 6.9.54 – 12.7.21 Kathy passed away peacefully on July 12th 2021 after a three year battle with cancer. Many friends have told me that they hadn’t realised she was ill – such was her determination not to let the disease defeat her. Her spirit and enthusiasm for the natural world was irrepressible, as […]
More...Keith Howland
We were very sad to hear of our friend and colleague Keith’s passing last July, yet another person whose life was cut short by the cancer epidemic and whose life we were not able to celebrate because of the covid restrictions limiting funerals. Keith started teaching in Blandford Upper School in 1973, the same year […]
More...Jim Toner
Dave Searle, the Coordinator of the EuCAN Dorset Midweek Volunteers, has written this about dear Jim who was a regular participant in the DMV activities. A modest, charitable and pragmatic man with a good sense of humour, Jim’s career included time in the merchant navy, a brewery, and mental-health nursing. His interests included environmental issues, […]
More...Bob Cronk
We are very sad to announce the death in 2021 of our friend and regular volunteer Bob Cronk. He supported our Cerne Valley team for several years after he returned to Dorset on retiring from teaching in Kent. Always full of fun, it became clear to anyone who met him that he had been a Deputy […]
More...Bring on the haymaking season!
Three years ago we borrowed a CAEB minibaler and Rapid Euro power unit from the National Trust in Purbeck and used it with a reasonable level of success on one of the flower meadows on the Terraces SNCI in Sherborne. We recently discovered that the National Trust were selling the kit and so we have […]
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