Children from the Infant School had been growing wild flowers from seeds in trays over the winter. 30 children with their teacher Marisa Ray and helpers brought the plants they had grown and planted them in a plot on the east side of the Community Orchard.
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On Wednesday 17th April 2013 we will be holding the second HICOP Annual General Meeting. The meeting will take place at 7:30pm in the Brackenbury Room at Impington Village College.
Great work by volunteers from GE Energy, who planted a native hedge along the orchard boundary nearest the guided busway. The hedge plants were provided by the Woodland Trust and include hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel, silver birch, rowan, common oak and elm. This will create a really rich, deep native hedge that will attract wildlife and […]
Localgiving.com and Cambridgeshire Community Foundation are matching monthly donations made to local charities in Cambridgeshire! Beginning at 10AM on Tuesday March 5, monthly donations made to eligible Cambridgeshire charities will be matched up to £10/month for a full year.
The first apple trees in the orchard were planted at a formal ceremony on Saturday 23rd February. HICOP would like to thank all those who turned out for the event in spite of the rather inclement weather.
Hello, please consider yourself invited to the: Formal Ceremony for planting the first apple trees Saturday 23 February 2013 Programme 10.30am Arrival and introductions 10.40am Formal welcome from Paul Christie, Chair of HICOP 10.45am Planting of First Apple Tree Ceremony with Paul Christie, Councillor Ray Manning (Leader of South Cambridgeshire District Council) and Max Parish […]
We are all delighted by how well the first volunteer work weekend went – so successfully, in fact, that we finished work on the Saturday.