Our appeal total has now passed £195,000 as very generous donors continue to contribute. 

Bricklaying is progressing on the bridge with the 12,000 bricks which have been donated by Wienerberger and valued at £11,000 included the appeal total. 

Further cost savings have been identified bringing the expected costs down to £253k,  meaning another £57k is required to fully fund phase 1. 

Can you help us reach our appeal total ?

Our  2025 Santa Trips have been a great success. We ran a total of  14 trips carrying 265 adults and 178 children.

It provided a great start to Christmas for all who took part.

Our grateful thanks to the many volunteers who enabled it to happen from boat crews to present wrappers to refreshment providers.

  A special thanks for our Santas and Elfs who ensured all  our passengers were well entertained. 

Thank you for everyone who purchased tickets in our raffle. The draw will take place on January 20th and the results will be included in the February Wey-South.

This year's Spring Meeting will be held on Saturday 18th April at 2pm in Alfold Village Hall.

There will be a guided visit to Rooks Hill that morning to see the amazing progress. 

More details to follow.

As you can see the Eric Walker Group entered into the Christmas Spirit which attracted much favourable comment from the passing public!

But it is not all play.  As highlighted above they have now completed laying the base for Phase 2 of the towpath extension by laying some 350 sandbags of dry mix concrete.

The hedge layers have been busy at Rooks Hill and the first section has been laid from the bridge worksite almost as far as the site of Fanes Bridge lock.

The Loxwood car park had deveiped an impressive array of potholes (potlakes morelike).  The Monday Group have improved the situation no end with a few still to fill.

It is either feast or famine as far as canal water is concerned.  After the heavy rainfall on 11th December the river Lox overflowed into the canal.  Unfortuately it will have brought with it a large amount if silt.  So even more toil in the New Year for Pauline and her hard-working crew.

It would have been more helpful to have had some of this water in the summer!

On 7th January, the BBC featured the Newberry Working Party affiliated to the Waterway Recovery Group working at the Rooks hill site. 

The feature was looking at Volunteering Holidays as a great way to travel to new locations,  get involved in community projects, learn new skills and make new friends.    What's stopping you !

See Bill Nicholson in his in his new role as master chef by using the button below - 1hour 2mins in.

This is a genuine W&A robin as apposed to the upstart last month!. Sean Barriskill took this photo doring the recent cold spell as you can see from his/her puffed up feathers,

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

Did you know you can download an app to your iphone with detailed information on our canal.  This includes canal side features such as mileposts, benches, picnic sites, landing stages and walks. 

There are also details of past and current restoration projects.  This makes the app an excellent source of information available during a walk. 

Further details and instructions on downloading the app can be found via the button below.

Join the Wey & Arun Canal Trust to help extend our green corridor through the beautiful Surrey and Sussex countryside. 

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

Single membership £20pa or £15pa on line.

Joint membership £25pa or £20pa on line