Boyce get muddy at Mudchute Farm!
On 26th April 2007, the Boyce team undertook a day of volunteering at Mudchute Farm, as part of our commitment to the environment, both physical and social, around us.
The Mudchute Park and Farm is an inner city farm in East London. Originally a piece of derelict land created during the last century from the spoil of the construction of Millwall Dock, the Mudchute is now the largest urban farm in London.
In 1977 the Mudchute Association was formed to preserve and develop the local area. Farm animals and horses were introduced and the educational benefits of the area began to be recognised. Now, local schools use the project to study the natural world on their doorsteps and the Farm gives city-based children the unique chance to learn and experience park and farm life first-hand.
Boyce Recruitment visited the Farm to help with urgent renovations and rebuilding. Our whole company was involved (a key commitment of Boyce’s volunteering programme), and spent our day attempting to remove old fencing and build a new length of fence. This turned out to be a lot trickier than it sounds! It involved using post hole-borers to make the holes in the ground that would support the posts of the fence, as well as using ‘monkeys’ to secure the posts firmly into the ground – definitely requiring serious team work and ‘elbow grease’!
After a long and tiring day of relentless pushing and pulling, heaving out nails, hammering and sawing, there was a great sense of achievement when the team finally saw the fruits of their labour. We had built a fence nearly thirty metres long designed to keep the farm’s new bull safely within his paddock - finished in the nick of time! We all left with a fantastic feeling of having contributed something really worthwhile to the farm - and, of course, a few sore muscles!
Check out the Mudchute Farm website at http://www.mudchute.org/index.htm