Meeting Point: Plowright Drive, Sheffield, S14 1LL. There’s plenty of parking around here.

Time: 10am-1pm with a break for refreshments. 

We will be litter picking and clearing out the Meersbrook. Please wear suitable outdoor clothing including long trousers, long sleeves, sturdy boots and waterproofs if necessary and wellies if you have them.

Email volunteer@dcrt.org.uk for more information or call task-leader Matt Duffy on 07825911973.

So where does all that litter we pick from the riverside go? The vast majority of it is taken away by Streetpride and delivered to the BDR Waste Treatment Facility. This award-winning plant extracts any remaining recyclable materials from household waste and turns what’s left into fuel for low carbon electricity! The facility diverts around 95% of waste from landfill, making a significant carbon dioxide saving.

Shanks, who have also funded the LHRD project, have organised a tour of the BDR waste facility so we can see this whole process in action!

If you would like to come along on the 10am-12pm tour please email info@dcrt.org.uk or get in touch with one of the team via text. We will need to know your shoe size and jacket size (S, M, L, XL, 2XL) in advance so that Shanks can organise our safety clothing for the day. Parking is limited at Shanks so we will also be organising car-shares.

Sign up to a half-day course led by David Adams from River-Mountain-Experience.
Training held at Voluntary Action Rotherham, The Spectrum. 

Training will involve how to write and follow a risk assessment, what personal protective equipment (PPE) should be worn when working in the water, and how to use and maintain PPE.

To sign up please download a volunteer training booking form here and send it to volunteer @dcrt.org.uk. 

Meeting Point: Meet in the Asda overflow car-park with the recycling bins, situated next to the entrance to Aldwarke Lock, Dalton. We will be walking up to the site which is along Aldwarke Lane (a lay by leading down to the river).

Time: 10am – 1pm

Task: We will be conducting a clean up in the area of litter, removing debris that has built up.

Please wear suitable outdoor clothing including long trousers, long sleeves, sturdy boots and waterproofs if necessary.

Email volunteer@dcrt.org.uk for more information or call task-leader Sally Hyslop on 07780333743

Join this course led by Paul Gaskell from the Wild Trout Trust which gives you practical guidance on geomorphology: creating physical features in the river for habitat restoration.

Location & Time:
Bridge Inn Pub, Ridgeway Moor, Ridgeway, Sheffield S12 3XY
10.30am – approx 2.30pm

About the training:
The structure of this one-day course will involve a short classroom session followed by a visit to the river to see how to put what you’ve learned into practise. You’ll learn such things as how to place woody debris in the channel allowing the river to create microhabitats for spawning fish and invertebrates. This course is aimed at beginners and volunteers working in river management as well as anyone wanting to improve their knowledge. 

Training is free and all are welcome but please note that volunteers and staff to DCRT and relevant organisation will be given priority. To sign up please download a volunteer training booking form here 

200 years ago, when Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was first published, uncertainty surrounded categories of life and death, with a widely held belief that death could be cured.

With a focus on the outer edges of Sheffield, where a derelict Victorian Cemetery meets the River Don, The River Project explores notions of creation, destruction, rebirth and the soul. Students of Sheffield College in collaboration with artist Eelyn Lee re-present their expansive research of the area, conducted over 7-weeks in Autumn 2018.

Drawings, prints, photographs, video, sound, text and found objects are assembled together with images of monsters and stories of fear to form an exploded map of the River Don.

To mark the Bicententary of the publication of Frankenstein, there will be a special outdoor screening of the film, Categories of Life and Death in Wardsend Cemetery on Monday 26 November, 6pm – 7.30pm.

Commissioned by DCRT and Site Gallery. Delivered in partnership with Sheffield College and Wardsend Cemetery.
Find out more about the artist Eelyn Lee here.

Meeting Point: At the back of Morrison’s car park, York Rd, Doncaster, DN5 8XG.

Time: 10am-1pm with a break for refreshments.

Please wear suitable outdoor clothing including long trousers, long sleeves, sturdy boots and waterproofs if necessary and wellies if you have them.

Email volunteer@dcrt.org.uk for more information or call task-leader Matt Duffy on 07825911973.

Join DCRT and Site Gallery for a special outdoor screening of our final Living Heritage of the River Don youth art project – The River Project: Categories of Life and Death in Wardsend Cemetery. Shot on location in the cemetery and the neighbouring River Don, the film imagines a meeting of the Celtic goddess Danu and a creature of her making. Devised by students from Sheffield College in collaboration with Eelyn Lee, the film touches on themes of pollution and renewal.

The film forms part of The River Project exhibition, displayed in the Site Gallery Project Space 22 – 29 November 2018.

The 5-minute film will play on a loop and free soup will be served, so drop in at any point.

An exhibition charting the process of The River Project will be on display in Sheffield College from 5.30pm.

Meeting point: End of Northfield Road, Rotherham. Next to the canal.

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 volunteer@dcrt.org.uk for more information or call task-leader Sally Hyslop on 07780333743.

Meeting point: Ivy Lane, Beighton, Sheffield, S20 1BU

Time: 10am-1pm with a break for refreshments.
Please wear suitable clothing for outdoor work and wellies/waders if you have them – if you would like to borrow some let us know your size prior to the event.

Email volunteer@dcrt.org.uk for more information or call task-leader Matt Duffy on 07825911973.