Ever wondered what it takes to run and build a campsite?

1st April - 26th April

• 1st - Ste planted 6 oaks and Green beech

• 2nd - Mike and Ste cut large field and strimmed round trees

• 3rd - Matt and Dan borrowed barrel at lunch, Mike and Ste cut large field and strimmed round trees

 

27th April - 26th May

• Begun to remove pines to accommodate re-siting of containers

• Begun to spray main field to remove grass

• Took small Kubota to be looked at by Birchalls - verdict?  Broken beyond repair

• Large Kubota bearing issues?

• All areas of grass now under control

• Padlock on New Barrier damaged (2nd time in a month)

• Mike, Ste and Dasa created new site

 

27th May - 30th June

• Large tractor maintenance, coolant, grease and oil

• Push mowers serviced (oil)

• Mike set up online forms / payment emails to Sarah

• Business rate rebate email sent to David Harvey - thanks Haydn!

• Mike received SCC email - £1,000 rebate - Ste authorised and is now in bank account

• Audit and tidy up of all existing fuel and oil.  Removal of old liquids

• Confirmed attendance for all staff members agreeing to follow new Covid-19 guidance

• Draft lawnmower options drawn up

• Begun tidy up of pines area ready for Josh to come and begin removal of soil etc.

• New campsite regulations received from Mike

• £510 paid to Peel L&P for rent owed

• Promoted Standing Order donations for Hollinwood (Hollinwood Heroes)

 

30th June - 28th July​

• Another invoice from Peel - check with Treasurer what's happening

• Sent Camp Report to County covering April 1st 2019 - March 31st 2020

• Contacted new communications team

• Email from Group re large work party weekend in Sept??

• Contacted by a new member who is coming down on July 18th​

• Accepted offer of spare double sink

• £191.00 of donations since 26th June - unsure as yet as to whether these will be ongoing

• Paid a further £400+ to Peel Land and Property

• Mike and Ste meeting with Haydn Worrall to discuss reopening

 

29th July - 1st September

• New bridge built

• Contacted Salford Rangers who gave Ste an email address

• Met Rob onsite with GPS. Datum points are 20 metres out... Ste and Mike to contact Architect

• Online meeting with camp managers

• Next day GM on Red alert and therefore no f2f scouting…

• Lock removed from barrier.  Ste contacted Peel

  • Peel to replace with combi lock but no word as of 21.8.21

• Contacted Work Party group to rearrange work party weekend to Spring 2021

• Emailed (RHS) to request items from building works

• Emailed High Sheriff's fund (GMP) to see about large grant request

  • Application submitted 21.8.20

  • Application for £3,500 - need to fund a further £3,965 to meet quote price

  • Approval meeting is happening in November

• Emailed RHS about GGB

  • Received reply.  Reconnect in early 2021.  Like idea of Living Willow structure

• Missing tools

• Spoke to ex-MEN journalist re story about Hollinwood

 

2nd September - 29th Sept

• Applying for Selco grant

• Jobs for autumn now on the board - is there a better way of getting input from team?  Committee meetings?

• Final grass cutting taking place this month

• Oak trees delivered.  Who from?!

• Salford grass cuttin contact cancelled due to illness

• Exec member has been in touch to say that Peel are wanting to meet.  Arranging asap

• Ste and Mike met with Peel and Contractor on 24.09.20

  • Peel are going to clear the ditch around the west perimeter

  • And have begun to cut back the grass etc.   They will remove small trees to enable fence

  • Maintenance is then up to us

  • M and M are available to hire in the future

  • Elecs coming from Neighbouring farm

  • Water coming via conduit over Moorings bridge probably

  • Topo guys will peg out the car park (smaller than originally planned but keeps the nice paths etc as agreed with Mike and Ste - losing grass median)

  • Peel happy with putting containers in area that we think is necessary

  • Topo guys also pegging out boundaries at canal side??

  • Car Park to be finished by Nov.  £10 per tonne and there is already 3,000 tonnes down!?!

  • Will put in a pipe - supplied by us - to future proof car park

    • Mike has priced up 60m of twin wall pipe £294.18 - paid for by Hollinwood Hero donations

  • Edge of car park will be 3 or 4 feet from line of stakes currently in place

• Scouting exempt from government guidance and as such is on AMBER level - 25th Sept

  • See meetings and associated actions with other campsites

  • Other than risk assessments what else do we need to do to 'open'

  • Tape of construction areas plus other

  • QR posters downloaded and printed

 

30th Sept - 2nd Nov

• Ste, and other exec team met with Peel 12th October

  • To agree date of pegging out of car park

  • And agreed to share monthly updates from now on (See Peel email)

• 10 harras fencing panels from Team

• Bonfire cancelled

• Ste and Mike have been absent for a few weeks.  Ste with holiday, quarantine and house renovations, Mike with holiday and quarantine.  Sorry about this, will be back soon

• Cycle shelter roofing is progressing

• GM in tier 3 - hasn't affected Scouting since the last update

  • However, please be aware that we must keep to current guidelines i.e. no more than 6 people meeting on site

• GMP using the site more regularly - please keep this in mind

• Awarded GMP grant.  Cheque in post (£3,500)

• Unity Insurance forms completed and sent

 

3rd Nov - 23rd Nov

• Crew

  • Lockdown has meant we have had to suspend staff visits until Dec 2nd at the earliest (apart from security checks)

• Car Park has started!

  • Contractor is filling in car park footprint

  • Drainage pipe ordered, paid for (Mike), and delivered onto site (Thanks Matt M for collecting)

  • As well as lighting ducting

  • Contractor has plans and will install

• Fundraising

  • £3.5k cheque (GMP) paid in by Treasurer

• Website and Newsletter

  • Bought plan to create website @ £4.00 per month up until 17.11.2022

  • Ste to put expenses claim in for 1-off payment for website

  • Now need to build, edit, promote the website

• Surveying

  • Boundary markers now finalised with metal stakes in place.  Please do not remove!

  • Measured out full extent of compound area

    • Including marking out western corners of Wardens' and Phase 1 building.

    • Middle culvert likely to be the back entrance to compound

    • Need to clear, tidy, level, begin hedging off this area asap

• Next Peel update on 25th November but….

  • CARBON FOOTPRINT – looking for places to plant trees.  One idea is for the fence alongside the ditch.  Carbon footprint, 3,000 trees  6 trees per metre.  Native species 1 and 2 year old

• RHS - Greening Great Britain

  • Other useful things to send through ASAP would be (mandatory for GGB groups):

    • Evidence of landowners permission

    • A copy of your current Public liability insurance if relevant

25th Nov - 2nd Feb 2021

• Peel update received.  Need to share before meeting OR go through during meeting

• Exec committee have decided to decline the offer of the 3,000 trees from Peel

• Friday 27th Nov

  • Deer-gate

  • 2x public announcements from Peel about culling 10 Roe deer in fenced-off area of RHS site (Middlewood)

  • Almost 2k comments on social media

  • Petition set up with over 5k signatures within 3 days

  • Councillors signed letters denouncing actions

  • Robin Garrido on BBC / ITV reports

  • Hollinwood post about relocating deer seen by over 14,000 people

  • Shared by Barbara Keeley

  • Emailed all the ward councillors, Paul Dennet, Barbara Keeley and Richard Green

    • Replies from BK and KG and Richard Green

  • Spoke with RHS who are meeting Ste and Mike after Christmas

• Spoke to Environment Agency to report incident of flooding

  • See email from 5th Jan 2020 for response

  • Next steps are:

    • Board of arbitration

    • Have contacted contractor about a quote to clear pond area

• Spoke to RHS

  • Requested that we push GGB grant back to autumn 2021

  • Unclear at this stage how we build a living willow structure for £500

  • Advised RHS that Hollinwood would NOT be able to find extra money to complement

  • Think of other ideas in the meantime

• Exec shared £1,000 Unity prize on Crew Page - No update as far as we know (Feb 2021)

• Met with RHS Bridgewater at Middlewood

  • Agreed to offer on long-term loan the Mosaic (currently in storage)

• Met RHS at Hollinwood

  • Discussed potential of Hollinwood

  • And also the relocation of Roe Deer at the wood

• I-Beam from Team member (many thanks!)

• Spoke with Charity-Fundraising Ltd

  • £13 ROI

  • £5k budget

• Tractor

  • Sharrocks service booked in.

• Risk assessment update

• Fencing quote

  • £4k circa - needs approval

• Mike and Ste spoke to Fundraising contact

 

3rd Feb - 23rd Feb

• Drainage pipe under car park - seems to have worked for now

  • Need to think about chamber, inspection pit, ancillary drainage etc and build over summer

• Lighting ducts NOT yet installed as of 22.02.20

• Reunion on Feb 20th has been postponed

• Mike met the fencing company for a 2nd quote for palisade-style fencing

• Website ready to go live

  • Bookings form needs tweaking

  • Teams photos to be updated

• Have emailed SAGE

• Tractor serviced

  • Oil filter needed and is being dropped off (Or could be Air Filter?!)

  • Oils, radiator etc. topped up

  • Small tractor has a cracked engine block and needs selling/scrapping

  • Flail is okay - will need new blades next year

• New small tractor needed

• Fencing - £8,159.00 - Go ahead from Committee to spend money

 

24th Feb - 31sr Mar

• Paid £1,700 to fencing contractor

• Perimeter ditches now cleared

• Agreed containers to go on Car Park (these are to be single use)

• Emailed Peel to tell them about cable

  • Architect picking up with Peel - as middle lighting is not going to be needed then this is the reason the cabling was not out under the car park

  • Architect suggested that the cabling COULD be run at the back of some fencing and hidden under conduit

  • Team believe that canteenering lights is possible (see above)

• RHS supplies were picked up - great team effort!

• Launched website

• Received notification about return to outdoor scouting (groups of 15) by March 29th 2021

• Expenses for toilet

• Booking form nearly complete

• Funding meeting moved to Wednesday 10th March 2021

  • Funding applications continue

  • Submitted Duchy of Lancaster grant application for £2,000 (will be assessed in June)

  • Funder contact suggested a seminar (hosted by him and with input from Mike and Ste) in mid April

• Met Councillors online March 10th

• Submitted Manchester Guardian Society application

• Filmed Rotary video submission for £1,000 for new tractor

• Contacted Fay @ Salford re funding

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