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Big Spring Morning, April 6 2024

Big Spring Morning
 
 
 
 
 
By Ros Uren
8th April 2024

Our Latest Event

The weather was windy but dry and pretty warm. We had the following stands:
  • Green Appleton
  • Repair Stall
  • Wild Oxfordshire
  • Oxfordshire Mammals
  • Craft stall
  • Too good to chuck
  • Seed planting.
  • Eliza with her Nature Trail
  • Bee and bug hotels
  • Book Stall
  • Teas, coffee, biscuits and flapjacks
And there was also a Green Windmill event happening around the village.
Big Spring Morning
We were surprised and delighted that people came to the event. The children enjoyed the nature trail, the craft stall and I saw children planting seeds and carrying pots with plants in Mums, Dads, Grandparents spent time looking at our stalls and lots of interesting conversations were held. We were particularly pleased with the reactions to iNaturalist and our Time-Lapse project. The repair table had a fairly quiet time, although there was quite a lot of excitement over the repair of a wind up radio! This will need more thought before the next one. We decided not to charge for teas and coffees, repairs etc. but instead we would ask for donations. People were generous, and we got enough to easily cover our costs.
Big Spring Morning

After the event, some of us retired to the Plough to have a wonderful lunch that Rob and Will had put together using local produce. They were very keen to support the event and would be very happy to do so again in future. We hope this will be an annual event and Green Appleton would like to say a huge thank you to all who attended, who were so generous with their donations and to all those who volunteered to help on the day. The event couldn't have happened without the following:

  • Oxfordshire Mammals Group
  • Wild Oxfordshire
  • Eliza (nature trail)
  • Rosie Page (Green Windmill)
  • Philip Kenrick (Repair shop)
  • James Mansfield (repair shop)
  • Andy Salmon (repair shop)
  • Jenny and Michael Mead (craft stall)
  • Liz Gilkes (too good to chuck)
  • Mary Blake (books)
  • Liz Dowthwaite and James Sprinks (Green Appleton and particularly iNaturalist)
  • The Plough for providing a fabulous lunch
  • Felicity and Richard for allowing us to use the barn
  • The core members of Green Appleton

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