The Spring Meeting will be held on Saturday 26th April at Loxwood Village Hall starting at 2pm.

There will be a members only guided walk that morning  at 10.30am starting from Birtley Courtyard (GU5 0LA). We will visit the new Birtley Bridges and follow the line of the Rooks Hill Project recently granted planning permission by Waverly Borough Council. Register on the link below. 

Some limited activity has been completed on site to establish a compound and erect Tree Protection fencing. Construction will only start when we have discharged our planning conditions. 

We will launch an appeal for the first phase of work to include construction of the Rooks Hill bridge at our upcoming Spring Meeting to be followed by a Press Release to publicise.   We will include details of how to donate to our appeal in our May newsletter.   

Celebrate Easter with a trip on one of our boats.

The Easter trips are on Friday 18th, Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th April with 2 trips per day.

There is a further Cream Tea trip on Monday 21st April.

The Hedgelaying Team have now completed their winter season with a record 240 metres laid at Drungewick.  They have built a hibernaculum for grass snakes using cut reed.

Work has started on the Rye Farm Project to divert the bridleway from the land owner's drive to alongside the canal. This is a significant construction project requiring bulk bags of dry-mix concrete, crushed concrete hardcore and a geogrid membrane before the finished surface can be laid.  The photo gives an idea of the work involved.

The Dredger Team have been busy upgrading Pauline with an iDig system to enable the operator to have real-time bucket positioning. This will reduce the risk of damage to the canal's puddling clay bed.

The Mobile Display Vehicle will be visiting Dunsfold Fete on 10th May and Bramley Fete on 17th May.

This unusual visitor to the canal was spotted by Julie Haddon in the vicinity of Lordings Lock on 1st April.  Koalas are normally pretty lethargic and spend much of their life stoned as a result of their diet of mildly narcotic eucalyptus leaves.  However, this one was quite sprightly- possibly missing his usual fare.

Local wildlife parks have been alerted.

What have you seen and photographed recently? If you send a photo to Dave Verrall at:      dave.verrall@weyarun.org.uk he can upload it to the Wildlife Photo section on the website.

Malcolm Watson will be giving a talk titled 'Messing about on the River Wey' at St Mary's Church Shalford (GU4 8PD) on Tuesday 29th April at 10am.  The talk will trace the history of pleasure boating on Guildford's river in the 19th and 20th century.  No need to book. Organised by the Acorns History society, Admin and Refreshments £6.   

This years Small Boat Rally will be held on Sunday 29th June. 

The launch at Pulborough will be at 16.00 and from Stopham at 16.30.  This is quite late in the day but unfortunately we have no control over the tide.

Instructions to Participants and Registration Details will appear on our website shortly.  Register on the link below.

Our annual fundraising Poddle will take place this year on Sunday 1^st June. The route is still being finalised, but will include walking along the canal at Bonfire Hanger  and the 2km stretch of canal inside Dunsfold Park.   

The Poddle will start and finish  at North Hall Loxwood (start-time is  9:30am -10:30) and  the lunch stop will be at  Alfold Village Hall.

Registration for the Poddle will be via our website from early March where sponsorship forms will be available for download.   If you are unable to download a form from the website, please email support@weyarun.org.uk and we will send you a form.

Join the Wey & Arun Canal Trust to help extend our green corridor through the beautiful Surrey and Sussex countryside. Single membership £15pa - family £20pa.

Members receive our quarterly Wey South Magazine with more in depth stories and are able to attend special members events.

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