5:36pm Sunday 5th September 2010
A team of volunteers, led by Disney’s VoluntEARS, will be descending on the gardens of the Richard Jefferies Museum at Coate Water on Tuesday - and they would love you to join them!
The volunteers will be helping to prepare the gardens and orchard of the Richard Jefferies Museum at the Coate Water Country Park, for a special opening the following weekend as part of National Heritage Open Days.
The museum, sometimes affectionately called ‘The Old House at Coate’, is contained within a beautiful old farmhouse where Victorian naturalist and writer Richard Jefferies was born in 1848.
For many years the museum, gardens and orchard have been quietly hidden away in a corner of the Country Park, resulting in a little known and poorly used asset for the town which needs a little tender loving care to bring it back to its former glory. The volunteers will be laying gravel paths, cutting back foliage, replacing and repairing fencing, putting together new benches and generally pruning, clearing and tidying up the gardens and orchards.
All of this work is in preparation for the grand opening of the museum on Sunday, September 12. The opening is part of English Heritage’s National Heritage Open Days, an initiative which sees buildings throw open their doors for four days in September.
Organisers are looking for as much help as possible from 10.30am to 4pm on Tuesday.
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