Activities

As part of The Deal, Wigan Council allow their staff two paid days each year when they can do voluntary work. We were delighted when a group from the audit office came to help at our Summer Spruce-Up day. They joined a group from Hope School and a number of other...

The Bird Feeding Station is looking rather the worse for wear after the winter and Tony set about cleaning and painting it. These photos show what a wonderful job he did. Well Done Tony.

Some of the students from Hope School had been making bird boxes in their workshop and after they had worked with us on our Spring Cleaning Day they decided to give these boxes to us for the site. Tony and Dave invited the students to come and help them to put the...

As part of the Council's Big Spring Clean we organised a Spring Cleaning Day. About 25 volunteers turned up to help us and everyone worked hard for many hours. We were very lucky with the weather as the previous day had been wet and windy and the following day was...

Winter is the time we carry out work on our bird boxes. Every box is inspected. If it is broken it is either repaired or replaced, depending on its condition. Old nesting material is removed and the box is disinfected using a special liquid which is safe for the birds...

The recent gales have brought down many trees around the site. Where these were across roads or paths they have been removed. The paths are once again safe to walk along BUT you still need your wellies on. The paths are very muddy.

Today we met with Wigan's Media Officer to tell her about our proposed Spring Clean. We are trying to encourage the local community to get involved in our Spring Clean and help us to tidy up the site in readiness for the better weather. We are organising an event on...

Winter is the time when The Friends are busy doing 'housekeeping' on the site. The bird boxes are checked, cleaned and mended. This year we have had to replace many of the boxes as they were too badly damaged to repair. Fortunately the Bryn councillors have given us...

The paths around the Three Sisters are in need of work. The very wet weather and lack of regular maintenance means that the paths have become narrow and muddy. Our project for this winter is to scrape the mud from the paths to widen them, and to dig out the ditches...

8th July – As part of The Deal people who work for the council are allowed two paid days each year when they can volunteer to do some work in the community. The Friends of Three Sisters would like to thank this group of workers from the Audit Office in the Town Hall...