TheIvyProject

Just to let you know there are 3 Ivy Project events coming up that volunteers can get involved with. Contact us  if you would like to take part in any of these days or help out beforehand by making posters, press releases, letters etc.

1. Tuesday 27^th October (half term) 10am -1pm– Wildlife Day with Wildman Frank @ St Sidwell’s Community Centre, Exeter. Frank and the Ivy team will be running a session for CSV Make a Difference Day. We will be making hedgehog houses, bird feeders and `fat balls’ (!) for people to take home and put in their gardens.

2. Thursday 29^th October (half term) 10am - 4pm (TBC) – Conservation Day with Plantlife – Plantlife will run a day at a farm near Bickleigh. Volunteers will be doing pond clearing and Becky will show people what nuts, roots and berries are edible. Transport will be provided from Exeter.

3. Saturday 7^th November 1-3pm – Game On! Fundraising Day for Devon Air Ambulance, Children in Need, Bookcycle and Cancer Research UK @ St Sidwell’s Community Centre, Exeter. As part of the CSV Make a Difference Day Campiagn Ivy staff and volunteers will get sponsored to do a marathon 2 hour game-on! Members of the public can come and `buy in’ to a game. The winner of each game gets a small prize and gets to choose which charity the winnings will go to. Refreshments and cakes will also be sold. The available games will be: Poker, Streetfighter 4, Monopoly, Twister, Snakes and Ladders, Top Trumps, Chess, Role Play

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