Another milestone at Darnford Moors Ecology Park as the final block goes in on the new canal wall. Bricklaying is up next.
Great work!

Another milestone at Darnford Moors Ecology Park as the final block goes in on the new canal wall. Bricklaying is up next.
Great work!
We’re still looking for our new Environment Trustee.
It's a role with real impact, boosting biodiversity and strengthening habitats as we restore Lichfield Canal’s blue‑green corridor. 🌿
Here's a preview of the steps we're building at Fosseway Heath, up the embankment to the McClean Way.
This is where people have been scrambling up and down the steep bank, so it will be much safer once we've finished.
At Gallows Reach this week, our volunteers dug out and concreted a slightly larger 5m pad.
It was also getting a bit awkward to grade the sides, with the redundant big pipe sections still in-situ, so they removed the final ten sections. Yay!
Great work!
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A brilliant day with volunteers from The Co-operative Bank (part of Coventry Building Society) giving back by helping us, and making a huge impact.
Tamworth Road is clear of spoil again (for now) so our Gallows Reach team can keep digging.
Fast forward to 2028 and this will be a completed canal. 😃
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Our Green and Grounds team and DofE volunteers carried on Saturday after Thursday’s corporate group ran out of time.
They tidied the Falkland Road bund, planted hedging, tackled brambles and cut the grass.
Top work, team! 👏🌱
The team had run out of spoil storage space at Gallows Reach and is only half way through constructing the canal section up to the lift bridge.
So they had a 'muckshift' this week to create more temporary storage space. They've cleared about fifty metres so far.
Huge thanks to the Co‑operative Bank team who travelled from across the UK to volunteer with us. Over 20 volunteers helped clear towpaths and tidy open spaces along the canal at Fosseway Heath - a fantastic effort. 🙏
After the August flood, and the construction of bund mk II, our volunteers were back in business this week.
They poured the next concrete pad. Only four linear metres this time but it's nearly a whopping eight metres wide.
The water has cleared and the team was able to continue with the concreting at Gallows Wharf. 🥳
Stay tuned for a full report coming soon.
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