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I am a year 9 student at Woodgreen School. Myself and another volunteer are helping at Wild Witney for the volunteering section of our Duke of Edinburgh bronze award.

Over the course of 3 months we will be doing jobs for Wild Witney. This may include: fund raising, data collection, researching, planting and activisism.

The first thing we have done is a litterpick of the gerneral area where the Wild Witney piece of land is. We found a lot of litter for the size of the area. Three bin bags full of mainly beer bottles and cans. There were also a few plastic bags and a shoe…? It wasn’t the nicest experience as some of the beer bottles weren’t empty and smelt like rotten watermelon but anything we can do we will do. Within reason.

Over the last three days I attended an amazing conference ORFC, which this year was online. At the closing speech I was in tears- I didnt want it to be over! I set out to learn about a wide array of subject areas related to land that I and the people of this group are interested in but learnt so much more in the form of a wide network of contacts, organisations and funding bodies related to land. Above all though, I met, albeit virtually, some amazing like-minded people. One talk that stood out for me was one which had two land based artists as its speakers. Two artists, Charlotte Still and Claire Whistler, working in Sussex have put together a project based on people they met on walks along rivers. There is a fantastic video that is part of Waterweek 2021. I will post further details about this later.