News

Spring is here!

Spring seems to be well and truly on it's way. Snowdrops and bluebells emerging, woodpeckers pecking, ponds unfrozen...a few more weeks and the woodland will be a riot of colour again. Check out our events page to see how you can come and see it all!

Snowy Sayers Croft

Sayers Croft is covered in lots of snow and looks beautiful. Crisp white fields, frozen ponds and lovely icicles! Just like a winter wonderland.

Ellens Green Missions Hall Fund Grant

A huge thank you to the Ellens Green Mission Hall Fund for giving us a grant which will help towards covering the costs for our leader to run our monthly youth clubs for another year!

Disability Awareness Training

A huge thank you to Nick and Clare from the Calvert Trust in the Lake District who came down and gave all the education staff at Sayers Croft 3 days of disability awareness training. This will help us to improve our all-access services at the centre and has given us some great ideas. Check out their great work at http://www.calvert-trust.org.uk/

Nature Photography with the Really Wild Club

Our RWC were greatly inspired during our nature photography session this weekend. To have a look at some of the photos they took please visit our Facebook page.

Fantastic photos

Wonderful Parent and Child club this morning - lovely morning and some nice pictures were taken including a one of a cucumber spider!

Christmas Trail

Thank you to everyone who came to our Christmas Trail - the weather was dry but cold and everyone had a great time meeting all our Christmas characters and we even made it onto the front page of the Surrey Advertiser!

Christmas Wreaths with The Studio ADHD Centre

The Studio ADHD Centre made some fantasic Christmas wreaths today with material collected from our woodlands, well done to all!

RWC Christmas Crafts

Thank you to our Really Wild Club who planted 100 spring bulbs in our new flower bed before getting crafty making christmas cards and decorations and eating mince pies!

Chistmas Crafts

Thanks to everyone who came for our Christmas Crafts Parent and Child Club. Everyone had fun making cards, snowflakes, stars, gift tags, tree decorations and much more! Hope to see you all again soon!

Basket workshop

A great basketry workshop - 10 of us made some fantastic Catalonia baskets with expert tuition from Christine Llewellyn. Great thing was that although we were all making the same thing - all the baskets looked so different at the end!

Really Wild Club

The RWC started our spring planting today by replanting our flower boxes that we made last year and starting to dig a new flower bed. We even made some solitary bee boxes! Well done guys, thanks for your hard work!

Deadly detectives goes down a storm

Thanks to everyone who came to our free deadly detectives morning - we had a number of families taking on the challenge of solving our nature crime and exploring the site on a lovely sunny day as well!

Half term activities

A great week of half term activities including a fantastic Halloween nightwalk complete with a visit from a friendly ghost! Look out for our February half term activities in the New Year!

Burrow revamp

The Burrow is currently undergoing a revamp with a deep clean, painting and new displays. During this time The Burrow will still be available to use but may look a little bare until our new displays go up. Please accept our apologies for any inconveniece caused.

Digging up Sayers Croft History

A great film made by the Community Film Unit about the excavations going on at Sayers Croft! Check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYxRk8t0jSk

Open Day

Thank you to everyone who made our open day a huge success!

BBC cover air raid excavations

The BBC have been over to look at our air raid excavations. Have a look at their coverage at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-13702097

Half term activities

A fantastic end to our half term activities. Look out for events during the summer!

Air raid excavations

Our air raid shelter excavations started today with the year 5's from Duke of Kent school, Peaslake coming to help us get digging!

BBC Radio Surrey

Our 5 minutes of fame on BBC Radio Surrey this morning at 7.25am - myself and Tom Rice talking about our air raid excavations!

Fantastic turn out for Easter Egg Hunts

We had a great turn out for our Easter Egg Hunts and had plenty of fun cracking the code to open the treasure chest full of choocolate!

Disability Awareness Training Course

I have just returned from a fanatstic week long training course at The Calvert Trust in the Lake District. I now have many new and exciting ideas to help make Sayers Croft more accessible to people with disabilities and we will hopefully be running a disability activity week in the near future.

Really Wild Club

We had a great day today with the RWC sawing, drilling and planting some new flower boxes. These have been planted with native flowers such as daffodils, snowdrops and foxgloves and put next to our bug hotels to attract bugs, butterflies and bees. Well done RWC!

Duck Eggs!

We have 8 duck eggs in a lovely nest on our ponds. We will be keeping a close eye on them and will let you know when they hatch!

New Projector Screen

We have a lovely new projector screen for The Burrow which can be used for meetings, presentations or even films.

Hedges for Dormice

I went to a training course in Reading today looking at hedges for dormice. Hopefully we will have Jim from the People's Trust for Endangered Species coming to check our dormice boxes soon. Fingers crossed that we have some dormice in them!

Cranleigh C of E Day Visits

Two great day visits from year 3 and 4 from Cranleigh C of E. We had great fun in the sunshine looking for pond creatures!

First frog spawn

The first frog spawn of the spring was found in our ponds by year 3 and 4 from Cranleigh C of E today.

World Book Day

Happy World Book Day! Our Book Exchange is open for the next 3 days so come along and pick yourself a good book to read.

New Website!

Our new website launches today! Tell us what you think of it.

BBC Children in Need

Our grant application for BBC Children in Need was successful! We have a grant for the next 3 years which will help us run activity weeks for disabled children.

Ellens Green Mission Hall Fund

We received a grant from the Ellens Green Mission Hall Fund which will help us continue running our two youth clubs. We are always very grateful for this support.

Surrey County Council Grant

We received a PAYP (positive activities for young people) grant from Surrey County Council that will allow us to offer discounted day visits for local special needs schools who would otherwise be unable to visit us. Thank you Surrey County Council!