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Swanage Volunteer Bureau - Every Little Helps

We have reviewed how we reach out to the community and
encourage folk to help all the amazing organisations in and around
Swanage help the community.
We will be in the library still, but only on the first Friday of the
month (when not a holiday!). Copies of opportunities will be
available at all times, please ask librarians, or go to https://
www.sandpdt.org.uk/swanage-volunteer-bureau/ .

If you want your organisation to be added to the list of
opportunities, please see us in the library or email
swanagevb@gmail.com.
We will also be going out to chat to people in places such as the
Coop, Market and various community events. Please look out for our
banner and say hello. Every little helps.

Museum hosts VIP visitors and Woodwork Saturday for young volunteers

The Purbeck Mining Museum was delighted to host a visit from Swanage Town
Mayor, Tina Foster, along with local councillors during Swanage Railway's
community engagement weekend in February. The Mayor and councillors met
with volunteers from the museum and the Swanage Railway as part of their day
out on the railway.

Clay mining has had a significant impact on the local ecosystem, so one of the
objectives of the Purbeck Mining Museum is preservation and development of the
environment and wildlife in the area at Norden where the museum is located. A
key element in this strategy is the management of woodland surrounding the
museum to ensure the best possible habitat for local wildlife – especially birds.
The Sygnets, the Swanage Railway youth volunteers,
Coinciding with the community engagement weekend, Sygnets, the Swanage have supported the woodland management activities
Railway youth volunteers, joined the Purbeck Mining Museum team on a busy of the Purbeck Mining Museum by making bird boxes
day of woodland management activities that included making and erecting bird that have now been installed around the site – photo
boxes. Their work was supervised by Nigel Cox, a Purbeck Mining Museum courtesy of Andrew P.M. Wright.
Committee Member, who was delighted with the commitment of the young
volunteers.
He said: "The Sygnets were all enthusiastic, engaged and very talented. They
were a brilliant group to work with and we made as many as 11 new bird boxes
that are now being installed at various locations in the woodland around the
museum".
We hope to contribute some photos of our bird visitors later in the year when the
new arrivals start to venture out. If anyone would like to help out with this and
other Purbeck Mining Museum activities, we're always welcoming new volunteers

(http://purbeckminingmuseum.org/contact-us/)
The Sygnets, the Swanage Railway youth volunteers
For further information please contact: making bird nest boxes at the Purbeck Mining
Museum earlier in February – photo courtesy of Nigel
Ron Dyson: 01935 83622; ron.dyson@auroracomms.net Cox