Walk Poster 2016

Meeting at 12.30pm at Nuffield Health & Gym, Highfield Park Drive AL4 0AH (complimentary  warm up offered, courtesy of Nuffield). Leaving at 1pm. There will be two walks on offer. The first is 4 miles (with an extension to 5 miles taking you back to Nuffield). The second is approximately 1.2 miles and is for those of differing abilities. It is fully accessible and will be very gentle. Don’t forget to bring water with you. Both walks will end up at our lovely site in Hixberry Lane where tea and cake will be available. Everyone is welcome including children and any dogs should be on leads.

So why not get registered and find some sponsors!

Download Sponsorship Form

Download Sponsored Walk Registration Form/Poster

Click here to download our March 2016 Newsletter

Download the latest information on the North Pole Trek

In April 2016 St. Albans resident and incipient local legend Ed Suttie, will be trekking to the North Pole. This will take him 21 days and will cover 200 km of challenging conditions and terrain. He’ll be skiing and walking over sea ice and snow.
Earthworks is honoured to be one of his four chosen charities. We are already benefiting from donations given by his supporters and at fundraising events such as the New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge!
It is a huge challenge and Ed is working hard to get into peak condition. To read more about Ed’s amazing adventure go to http://www.ed2northpole.org. You will
be able to follow a link which will enable you to make a donation. You can follow him on Twitter @Ed2NorthPole and he is on Facebook, as are we!

Ed with Gareth & Jason

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Fleetville Harmony

Our first Open Day and Christmas Craft Fair was a great success! Thank you to everyone who came along and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

There was a steady flow of people throughout the afternoon and we were lucky the rain held off.

The ‘make your own craft workshop’ was very popular and Angelina showed people how to make baubles for the Christmas tree.

Santa’s Grotto

Our crafts and Christmas sold out. So did our Medlar Jelly which attracted a lot of interest. Fleetville Harmony joined us singing festive songs A Cappella which made a wonderful atmosphere.

Luckily, Santa was able to be there and occupied his grotto and had many visitors.

Thanks also to Ed Suttie for coming along and selling his Christmas Cards. Ed is trekking to the North Pole next April. He is raising money for charities and we are lucky enough to be one of the beneficiaries. Ed came with two helpers.

Reindeer for Sale

Thanks to everyone who helped out.

Santa with Ed & helpers

For Sale

The Grotto

For Rudolph…

Before

The photos show just what a difference our new car park has made to everyone who attends Earthworks. For years, we had to negotiate huge puddles every time it rained and it took days to drain away.

Thank you St. Albans District Council for your grant from the Health and Wellbeing Fund for making it easier for everyone, especially our disabled trainees, to get into site safely.

After

It was a big job and thank you to everyone who worked so hard on it. It looks wonderful!

Zuneira

Thank you to everyone who supported our sponsored walk on the 20^th September. It started with a warm up at Nuffield Gym and then we walked to Earthworks site, approximately 4 miles, for some well deserved tea and cake. It was a good turnout of volunteers and trainees and their families, helped by a lovely sunny day.

Thank you to Samuel Ryder Academy who provided stewards along the route and thank you to Nuffield Gym who let us use their facilities for the warm up.

Sponsorship money is still coming in but we have received well over £1,000!

It is now quick and easy to securely send a donation to us via Givey!

100% of your donation will be sent directly to Earthworks.

We are extremely grateful for the support that we continue to receive from our local community and beyond. Your generosity is essential in enabling us to continue providing unique and meaningful opportunities and training for adults with learning disabilities whilst also championing an environmentally responsible ethos.

Click Givey now 🙂

Earthworks has sadly been a target for thieves and vandals numerous times in recent years. There was really nothing more heartbreaking than arriving at our lovely gardens to discover damage had been done to areas worked on by our trainees and volunteers or to find that equipment had been stolen.

As part of our new building project we have had a complete overhaul of security arrangements. Following meetings with Herts Police Force we now have a smart new fence around the entire perimeter of the site (with anti-climb measures), an infra-red CCTV system, and, perhaps most importantly, we no longer keep any valuable equipment on our site overnight.

We are also continually grateful to local people who report any issues or suspicious goings on in the area to us and the police. Thank you!

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