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2 | 3 | 4 | 5 - River clean-up: Shirtcliffe Brook
10:00 -13:00 05-04-18 261 Beaver Hill Rd, Sheffield S13 9QA, UK  River Rescue Day: Shirtcliffe brook clean-up
Meeting Point: Meet in the small car park off Beaver Hill Road (close to the Badger Road junction)
Time: 10am-1pm with a break for refreshments.
Please wear suitable clothing for outdoor work. Email [email protected] for more information or call task-leader Matt Duffy on 07825911973. if you would like to borrow wellies or waders then please let the task leader know in advance. In collaboration with the Friends of Shirtcliffe Brook.
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9 | 10 - Don Valley Way Volunteer Day: Ickles Lock
10:00 -13:00 10-04-18  Don Valley Way Volunteer Day: Ickles Litter-Pick
Meeting Point: Meet in the small car-park on Brinsworth Street, Rotherham. Go over the level-crossing and take the second right turn.
Time: 10am-1pm with a break for refreshments.
Please wear suitable clothing for outdoor work. There are no toilets available to use on this site.
Email [email protected] for more information or call task-leader Sally Hyslop on 07780333743.
| 11 | 12 - CANCELLED – River Rescue Volunteer Day: Porter Brook
10:00 -13:00 12-04-18 Geoff Hall Carpets Ltd, 178 Shoreham St, Sheffield S1 4SQ, UK  Unfortunately, due to the wet weather we’re experiencing we’re going to cancel Thursday’s (12th April) Poter Brook Pocket Park volunteer day. Please look out for a rescheduled date for this! Any questions email [email protected] or call 01302796173 Porter Brook Volunteer Day: Pocket Park clean-up
Meeting Point: At the Matilda/Sidney Street Pocket Park, Sheffield, S1
Email [email protected] for more information or call task-leader Matt Duffy on 07825911973.
Time: Drop by anytime between 10am-1pm with a break for refreshments.
Please wear suitable clothing for outdoor work – we will bring spare wellies and waders for volunteers to borrow!
This volunteer day is in collaboration with the Friends of the Porter Brook
| 13 | 14 | 15 - Hillsborough Park Open Day
All day 15-04-18 70 Broughton Rd, Sheffield S6 2AS, UK Find us at our stall in the Hillsborough Park Walled Garden!
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16 | 17 - Don Valley Way Volunteer Day: Kilnhurst
10:00 -13:00 17-04-18 Carlisle St, Swinton, Mexborough S64 5UZ, UK  Don Valley Way Volunteer Day: Kilnhurst Litter-Pick
Meeting Point: Meet on Carlisle Street, Mexborough. Go under the railway bridge and along the road where we will be working on the footpath entrance.
Time: 10am-1pm with a break for refreshments.
Please wear suitable clothing for outdoor work. There are no toilets available to use on this site.
Email [email protected] for more information or call task-leader Sally Hyslop on 07780333743.
| 18 - Volunteer Training: Bat Surveys
17:30 -21:30 18-04-18 Doncaster DN4 8QP, United Kingdom  Evening Course – Timings to be confirmed. An evening course delivered by Principal Ecologist and bat expert Robert Bell on how to identify, record and survey the bat species found in the Don Catchment. The evening will finish with a dusk bat walk around Sprotborough, where we will use bat detectors to identify different species by their characteristic sounds. To sign up please download a volunteer training booking form here.
| 19 | 20 | 21 - World Fish Migration Day – Sheffield Fish Pass Walk
11:00 -13:00 21-04-18  Chris Firth, DCRT trustee and MBE, will be leading a walk around Sheffield’s Fish Passes and telling the tale of the fall and recovery of the river Don. The walk will follow the river Don along the 5 Weirs Walk, starting at Meadowhall and leading towards Lady’s Bridge in Sheffield. Sheffield’s rivers were once rich in Atlantic salmon but human degradation of the river put an end to this famous migration. Hear about how the building of fish passes is reconnecting isolated fragments of river, helping to bring back the return of salmon for the first time in 200 years. The event is free but booking essential – email [email protected] to book a place or find out more 
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23 | 24 - River Rother Volunteer Day: Canklow
10:00 -13:00 24-04-18 Centenary Way, Rotherham S60, UK  River Rother footpath litter-pick
Meeting Point: Meet in the small car-park near the Canklow Roundabout (take the exit next to the Shell garage on to the A631 and take the first right, before the railway bridge)
Time: 10am-1pm with a break for refreshments. Please wear suitable clothing for outdoor work.
Email [email protected] for more information or call task-leader Sally Hyslop on 07780333743.
| 25 - Volunteer Training: Leading Talks & Walks
10:00 -14:00 25-04-18  A course on how to lead educational walks for the public with a natural history focus. The course will be led by Russ Headley.
To sign up please download a volunteer training booking form here. Details TBC.
| 26 - Don Valley Way Volunteer Day: Warmsworth
10:00 -13:00 26-04-18 14 Heath Ct, Warmsworth, Doncaster DN4 9GE, UK  Don Valley Way Volunteer Day: River Don footpath litter-pick
Meeting Point: Meet outside Warmsworth Cemetery, over the railway bridge and at the end of Guest lane, Doncaster.
Time: 10am-1pm with a break for refreshments. Please wear suitable clothing for outdoor work.
Email [email protected] for more information or call task-leader Matt Duffy on 07825911973.
| 27 | 28 - Doncaster Heritage Fair
All day 28-04-18  Find us at our stall at the Doncaster Heritage Fair, where we will be explaining what we’ve been up to during the ‘Living Heritage of the River Don’ project.
Timings TBC
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