OUR COMMUNITY PROJECT NEEDS YOU Please can you help our voluntary project at Thorners School? We are a very small group of families who have been working for a year now to tackle the thorns and regenerate an acre of land at Thorners School into an outdoor learning and conservation Discovery Area.  The project, once cleared and completed, will be also available for use from the other Bridport Cluster Schools. Last month we won the Dorset Wild Life Trusts second prize as a community wildlife garden, so we must be doing something right!  We have planted an orchard, funded by the Dorset AONB, a living willow Story Dome, and an Edible Forest Garden, where all the plants have been donated from Freecycle.  We are sowing a wild flower meadow area, building study decks, a wetlands area, butterfly and bird gardens, history and science zones, and much more. How can you help us? There are many ways in which we need your help. So far we have relied on word of mouth but, wanting to push the project onto its next stages, we felt it time that the Valley know about our cause. Firstly, we are falling short of many materials for the project, and still need paving slabs, bricks, wood, cut hazel and willow, fruit bushes, native plants, bulbs, plastic one litre drinks bottles, car & tractor tyres, wooden posts, broken tiles, garden tools, wheelbarrows, tree slices, sand, gravel and so much more ! Secondly, if you are someone who likes being outdoor, and would like to help us develop the plans, we would love you to join us - everyone welcome, any age ! Lastly, we need woodworkers to help us make structures and benches, and people who would like to try their hand at wildlife gardening too.