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YOUTH GROUP
A Youth Group has started in the village. Deacon Jan Sutton and Youth Worker Ben Webb have set up the project in the Methodist Church which is open to all young people in the village. Membership is for young people aged 13 to 17 and offers a range of facilties for play, music and a range of other activities. Help is still needed. Funding is promised by the Parish Council but more money is needed to fund the full range of activities. Volunteers are urgently needed as one adult is required for each six young people. Please contact Jan Sutton on 0116 230 2538 for more details.
NATURE RESERVE - MOUNTSORREL MEADOWS
The Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust (LRWT) has just acquired
a 13 hectare parcel of land adjacent to the River Soar in Mountsorrel. The
reserve will be known as Mountsorrel Meadows and is on the other side of
the By-pass to the Mountsorrel Marshes, which is owned by the Parish Council.
The strategy of the LRWT is to manage an extensive area of the Soar Valley
floodplain for the benefit of wildlife and people. The nature reserve at
Cossington Meadows is nearby and will provide a much larger reserve more
able to buffer the effects of adverse conditions such as prolonged dry periods
than smaller ones. The LRWT's plans for the Mountsorrel Meadows involve
creating a mixture of wildlife habitats such as wetland scrapes and ponds,
wet woodland and grassland. Public access will be improved by the provision
of public paths, kissing gates and a wildlife viewing point. For more details
on the LRWT see their website at www.lrwt.org.uk.