Timbershare

When Sunday, June 26th. (10 -12:30pm OR 1:30 - 4pm)

Where Harmony Woods

Who Individuals; woodworkers all abilities; community organisations

What Making Bird boxes and Bat boxes and planters! – £15 per item

supported by skilled carpenter. sharing skills, sharing timber

Book your place:

email: volunteers@andovertrees.org.uk

About the Timbershare Project

Aims:

• To use the surplus timber (larch and cedar) generated from the Cabin build to connect people to the wood and to our work

• To reduce waste and demonstrate respect for materials and resources

• To encourage the sharing of skills

• To encourage organisations supporting vulnerable adults (especially those with woodworking skills) to work in a different environment

Performances ‘Living by the Ash Tree Waters’ will bring together the 3 community riverside artist-led workshops with James Aldridge, and 3community singing workshops with Paul Sartin in a celebration of the chalk streams and the ash trees that surround them.

This event is part of the HIOWWT Watercress and Winterbournes project

Where: Harrow Way School hall, Andover

When: 17th June 2022. 7-9pm

Book: Email alex.walker@andovertrees.org.uk.

*Living by the Ash Tree Waters project uses artist-led walking explorations and musical encounters to connect children and adults in Andover and two nearby villages to their chalk streams and rivers.

Explorations along stream and river banks will use specially designed backpacks and the visual arts to celebrate and awaken curiosity in participants about their waterways. Learning and performing traditional folk music, with a focus on locally collected songs, will introduce local residents to their stream-related heritage.

This Andover Trees United project is funded through TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF.

Voices in Harmony Choral Workshop with Paul Sartin & Jackie Oates.

This is a community workshop open to all ages and abilities.

This event is part of the Voices in Harmony project*

Where: The Sanctuary, The Methodist Church, Bridge Street, Andover

When: June 11th 2022. 10am - 2.30pm

Book: Email volunteers@andovertrees.org.uk.

*‘Voices in Harmony’ has been planned jointly by both artists and Andover Trees United and will lead children and adults on a musical journey in celebration of woodlands, including the Ash Trees from which Andover partly derives its name*. Collected stories and memories together with reworkings of traditional songs will be combined into a new composition and Tree Shanty which will be performed alongside traditional folk song in Harmony Woods, accompanied by the made-audible responses of the surrounding trees.

Timbershare

When Saturday June 11th (all day, specific times tbc)

Where Harmony Woods

Who Individuals; woodworkers all abilities; community organisations

What Specific workshop details tbc. Likely to include bird boxes, bench making, musical instrument making sessions and more –

sharing skills, sharing timber

Book your place:

email: alex.walker@andovertrees.org.uk

About the Timbershare Project

Aims:

• To use the surplus timber (larch and cedar) generated from the Cabin build to connect people to the wood and to our work

• To reduce waste and demonstrate respect for materials and resources

• To encourage the sharing of skills

• To encourage organisations supporting vulnerable adults (especially those with woodworking skills) to work in a different environment

Activities will involve:

- sessions where existing groups come together to share skills and expertise

- sessions where experienced carpenters can come to work together and help revive skills in others

- sessions where experienced practitioners can teach novices.

The timber will be provided for free and items made will benefit the wood (fences, nursery beds and

wildflower planters, benches and tables) but participants will have the opportunity to take their creations home and organisations, including ourselves, will benefit financially from saleable items.

The musical instruments will be used in performances in the wood and by the riverside in Andover, Appleshaw and Vernham Dean (see ‘Voices in Harmony’ and ‘Living by the Ash Tree Waters’).

Performances ‘Living by the Ash Tree Waters’ will bring together the 3 community riverside artist-led workshops with James Aldridge, and 3community singing workshops with Paul Sartin in a celebration of the chalk streams and the ash trees that surround them.

This event is part of the HIOWWT Watercress and Winterbournes project

Where: The Millenium Hall, Vernham Dean

When: 10th June 2022. 7-9pm

Book: Email alex.walker@andovertrees.org.uk.

*Living by the Ash Tree Waters project uses artist-led walking explorations and musical encounters to connect children and adults in Andover and two nearby villages to their chalk streams and rivers.

Explorations along stream and river banks will use specially designed backpacks and the visual arts to celebrate and awaken curiosity in participants about their waterways. Learning and performing traditional folk music, with a focus on locally collected songs, will introduce local residents to their stream-related heritage.

This Andover Trees United project is funded through TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF.

Performances ‘Living by the Ash Tree Waters’ will bring together the 3 community riverside artist-led workshops with James Aldridge, and 3community singing workshops with Paul Sartin in a celebration of the chalk streams and the ash trees that surround them.

This event is part of the Watercress and Winterbournes project

Where: St Peters C of E School Hall, Appleshaw

When: 7th June 2022. 7 - 9 pm

Book: Email alex.walker@andovertrees.org.uk.

*Living by the Ash Tree Waters project uses artist-led walking explorations and musical encounters to connect children and adults in Andover and two nearby villages to their chalk streams and rivers.

Explorations along stream and river banks will use specially designed backpacks and the visual arts to celebrate and awaken curiosity in participants about their waterways. Learning and performing traditional folk music, with a focus on locally collected songs, will introduce local residents to their stream-related heritage.

This Andover Trees United project is funded through TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF.

Timbershare

When Saturday June 4th (all day, specific times tbc)

Where Harmony Woods

Who Individuals; woodworkers all abilities; community organisations

What Specific workshop details tbc. Likely to include bird boxes, bench making, musical instrument making sessions and more –

sharing skills, sharing timber

Book your place:

email: alex.walker@andovertrees.org.uk

About the Timbershare Project

Aims:

• To use the surplus timber (larch and cedar) generated from the Cabin build to connect people to the wood and to our work

• To reduce waste and demonstrate respect for materials and resources

• To encourage the sharing of skills

• To encourage organisations supporting vulnerable adults (especially those with woodworking skills) to work in a different environment

Activities will involve:

- sessions where existing groups come together to share skills and expertise

- sessions where experienced carpenters can come to work together and help revive skills in others

- sessions where experienced practitioners can teach novices.

The timber will be provided for free and items made will benefit the wood (fences, nursery beds and

wildflower planters, benches and tables) but participants will have the opportunity to take their creations home and organisations, including ourselves, will benefit financially from saleable items.

The musical instruments will be used in performances in the wood and by the riverside in Andover, Appleshaw and Vernham Dean (see ‘Voices in Harmony’ and ‘Living by the Ash Tree Waters’).

Living by the Ash Tree Waters

Take part in a riverside workshop with environmental artist James Aldridge. Trial our Curious Explorer Backpacks, designed by young people, as a starting point to trigger discussion and reflection on your relationship with the river, as we walk, talk and create.

Where: Meet on King George V Playing Field next to Hurstbourne Tarrant CE Primary School

When: Thursday 12 May from 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm.

Why: To learn more about The Bourne Rivulet, also known as The River Swift,  a seasonal chalk stream.

Who: All ages but small children will need to be accompanied by an adult and supervised by the road.

Book: Email volunteers@andovertrees.org.uk.

*Living by the Ash Tree Waters project uses artist-led walking explorations and musical encounters to connect children and adults in Andover and two nearby villages to their chalk streams and rivers.

Explorations along stream and river banks will use specially designed backpacks and the visual arts to celebrate and awaken curiosity in participants about their waterways. Learning and performing traditional folk music, with a focus on locally collected songs, will introduce local residents to their stream-related heritage.

This Andover Trees United project is funded through TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF.

Living by the Ash Tree Waters

Artist-led riverside walk

Where: River Anton in Andover - Meet by the river next to Wilko near the corner of Bridge street

When: Saturday 30th April from 1.30 pm - 3.30pm

Why: To learn more about the River Anton, which is one of only 200 chalk streams in the world

Who: All ages but children will need to be accompanied by an adult and supervised by the river

Please join us for a walk by the River Anton in Andover.  A group of pupils from the newly reformed Eco Group have been working with artist James Aldridge to design ‘Nature Explorer' backpacks which will be made up by Andover Trees United thanks to grants from TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF..

Artist, James Aldridge will lead a walk along the banks of the River Anton from Bridge Street to ASDA car park and pupils and their families will have the opportunity to test out a prototype ‘Nature Explorer’ backpack - using some of the equipment which the children have decided to include!  

Learn more about the river and its creatures and plants.

Sign up through eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/andover-trees-united-32302861191

For more information please contact: volunteers@andovertrees.org.uk

*Living by the Ash Tree Waters project uses artist-led walking explorations and musical encounters to connect children and adults in Andover and two nearby villages to their chalk streams and rivers.

Explorations along stream and river banks will use specially designed backpacks and the visual arts to celebrate and awaken curiosity in participants about their waterways. Learning and performing traditional folk music, with a focus on locally collected songs, will introduce local residents to their stream-related heritage.

This Andover Trees United project is funded through TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF.

Living by the Ash Tree Waters

Artist-led Winterbourne walk - Appleshaw

Where: Meet on the playing fields near Appleshaw Village Hall

When: Saturday 30th April from 9.30am -11:.30am

Why: To learn more about the Winterbourne that runs through Appleshaw at certain times of year, some years

Who: All ages but small children will need to be accompanied by an adult and supervised by the road, the pond and the bourne ditch

Please join us for a walk by the Winterbourne ditch in Appleshaw.  Pupils in Y1 and Y2 have been working with artist James Aldridge to design ‘Nature Explorer’ backpacks which will be made up by Andover Trees United, thanks to grants from TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF funding.

Artist, James Aldridge will lead a walk starting on the playing fields near Appleshaw Village Hall then along a short section of the road to look at the course of the Winterbourne (there may or may not be water in the ditch). We also hope to visit the pond.  Pupils and their families will have the opportunity to test out a prototype backpack - using some of the equipment which the children have decided to include!  

Learn more about the Winterbourne and its creatures and plants.

Sign up through eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/andover-trees-united-32302861191

*Living by the Ash Tree Waters project uses artist-led walking explorations and musical encounters to connect children and adults in Andover and two nearby villages to their chalk streams and rivers.

Explorations along stream and river banks will use specially designed backpacks and the visual arts to celebrate and awaken curiosity in participants about their waterways. Learning and performing traditional folk music, with a focus on locally collected songs, will introduce local residents to their stream-related heritage.

This Andover Trees United project is funded through TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF.

Come along to discover tree song, tune in (literally) to the natural biorhythms of the trees with sound artist Justin Wiggan and discover Harmony Woods like you’ve never seen (or heard) it before. This event is part of the Voices in Harmony project*

Where: Harmony Woods

When: 25th April 2022. Time tbc

Checkout a video from our previous workshop here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca3aklfKme-/

Sign up through eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/andover-trees-united-32302861191

*‘Voices in Harmony’ has been planned jointly by both artists and Andover Trees United and will lead children and adults on a musical journey in celebration of woodlands, including the Ash Trees from which Andover partly derives its name*. Collected stories and memories together with reworkings of traditional songs will be combined into a new composition and Tree Shanty which will be performed alongside traditional folk song in Harmony Woods, accompanied by the made-audible responses of the surrounding trees.

Living by the Ash Tree Waters

Artist-led Winterbourne workshop - Appleshaw

Where: Meet on the playing fields near Appleshaw Village Hall

When: Thursday 21 April from 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Why: To learn more about the Winterbourne that runs through Appleshaw at certain times of year, some years

Who: All ages but small children will need to be accompanied by an adult and supervised by the road, the pond and the bourne ditch

Please join us for a walk by the Winterbourne ditch in Appleshaw.  Pupils in Y1 and Y2 have been working with artist James Aldridge to design ‘Nature Explorer’ backpacks which will be made up by Andover Trees United, thanks to grants from TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF funding.

Artist,James Aldridge will lead a walk starting on the playing fields near Appleshaw Village Hall then along a short section of the road to look at the course of the Winterbourne (there may or may not be water in the ditch). We also hope to visit the pond.  Pupils and their families will have the opportunity to test out a prototype backpack - using some of the equipment which the children have decided to include!  

Learn more about the Winterbourne and its creatures and plants.

Sign up through eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/andover-trees-united-32302861191

*Living by the Ash Tree Waters project uses artist-led walking explorations and musical encounters to connect children and adults in Andover and two nearby villages to their chalk streams and rivers.

Explorations along stream and river banks will use specially designed backpacks and the visual arts to celebrate and awaken curiosity in participants about their waterways. Learning and performing traditional folk music, with a focus on locally collected songs, will introduce local residents to their stream-related heritage.

This Andover Trees United project is funded through TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF.

Living by the Ash Tree Waters

Artist-led riverside workshop

Where: River Anton in Andover - Meet by the river next to Wilko near the corner of Bridge street

When: Thursday 21 April from 9:30 - 11:30am

Why: To learn more about the River Anton, which is one of only 200 chalk streams in the world

Who: All ages but children will need to be accompanied by an adult and supervised by the river

Please join us for a walk by the River Anton in Andover.  A group of pupils from the newly reformed Eco Group have been working with artist James Aldridge to design ‘Nature Explorer' backpacks which will be made up by Andover Trees United thanks to grants from TVBC and through the Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme, made possible by NHLF..

Artist, James Aldridge will lead a walk along the banks of the River Anton from Bridge Street to ASDA car park and pupils and their families will have the opportunity to test out a prototype ‘Nature Explorer’ backpack - using some of the equipment which the children have decided to include!  

Learn more about the river and its creatures and plants.

For more information or to let us know you are coming (you can also just turn up on the day) please contact: volunteers@andovertrees.org.uk

Sign up through eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/andover-trees-united-32302861191

*Living by the Ash Tree Waters project uses artist-led walking explorations and musical encounters to connect children and adults in Andover and two nearby villages to their chalk streams and rivers.

Explorations along stream and river banks will use specially designed backpacks and the visual arts to celebrate and awaken curiosity in participants about their waterways. Learning and performing traditional folk music, with a focus on locally collected songs, will introduce local residents to their stream-related heritage.

The Watercress and Winterbourne Landscape Partnership Scheme is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
This project is also supported by Test Valley Borough Council.

A bookable volunteer workshop to be held at Harmony Woods in Andover, supporting Andover Business Week - light tasks are offered to do essential preparation for the coming Schools Planting Weeks.

Time - (9.45 am registration) 10 am to 12 pm.

Refreshments available.

Wear warm outdoor clothing and footwear.

If your business wants to meet local sustainability experts and network this is a great opportunity to do so.

The valuable work that Andover Trees United does, supports businesses, communities and iIndividuals.

Supporting ATU (whether with volunteered time, services, expertise, goods or funding) is an excellent way of demonstrating/ making visible a business’ commitment - new or established - to environmental and sustainability issues as well as to the local community.

To register go to eventbrite here >>