We need volunteers at Butterfly House
BUTTERFLY House needs help. Victoria Park’s popular Butterfly House is about to enter it’s fourth season and Victoria Park Environment Team (VPET) is looking for new volunteers to add to their list.
We need at least 24 volunteers to keep the Butterfly House open three days a week from May to September.
We ask people to commit to one session per fortnight.
Volunteers must be 16 plus or if under 16 accompanied by an adult who attends as a volunteer also.
The Butterfly House season with be launched on Sunday, May 7, at 1.30pm with crafts and live music.
This is the first season we haven’t had funding to support the Butterfly House and we are relying totally on the donations of the visitors to raise enough funds to keep buying the Butterfly Chrysalis.
We hope we will be able to open for the full season, we encourage the breeding of the butterflies by creating a safe environment over winter but the chrysalis could still cost £1,500.
It is a relaxing, fulfilling experience to be a volunteer, full training will be given and volunteers won’t be on their own.
As well as looking after the main Butterfly House when the public are in, volunteers, provide a colouring room for children and maintain the garden at the rear.
Please come along and find out more on Sunday, April 30, at ● 10.30am, or contact Louise on 07930 388 844 or email vpetvols@ gmail.com suggest. But a defeat for May could bring about a whole new approach – with a change to the much less destructive approach of a “soft Brexit” (leaving the EU, but remaining in the Single Market). This would resolve the Irish border issues, get Scotland on board again, and recognise that the closed borders approach of Ukip and the Tory right was always a fantasy if our economy is to grow.
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