We'll find a home for your worn-out wellies

Hi everyone,

Compared to what it's usually like, it's been quiet on the blog-front recently.  I've been away on holiday for a while and generally busy getting ready for welly season.

Welly season?  Well, from October until the end of December, everything at Saltholme is going to have a welly-style flavour (and we don't mean rubbery).  To make welly season even more amazing, we need your help.

If you're a festival-goer, a gardener or a fashionista, then let us put your worn-out wellies to good use by donating them to Saltholme.  We're appealing for old wells to be used during welly season.

Donated wellies will be turned into mini gardens, used to guide visitors around the reserve, and a host of other ingenious uses.  If you have any bright ideas for things to do with wellies, then let us know.

Here's Eleanor and her dad, Ian, turning some worn-out wellies into a miniature wildlife garden ...

Visit Saltholme during welly season and you'll be able to test your arm in the welly-wanging arena, join in with conservation tasks like clay puddling where wellies are a must,  post a wildlife wish on the welly wish tree and check on the waterproof qualities of your wellies by stomping through the new welly splash zone.

Welly season isn’t just for our young visitors - there'll be plenty of welly-fun for adults.  Soup and starlings will return during November, and we'll be running a series of welly walks, introducing visitors to new, unseen corners of the reserve.  Keep an eye on the events pages on the Saltholme website for welly season updates.

I know that it's easy to become very attached to a favourite pair of wellies, but when they start to leak, drop to bits or the fashion gurus say black is so last year, it might be time to say farewell.

So, if you can bear to part with your wells, bring them along to Saltholme next time you visit and we'll find them a good home.

Or, if Saltholme's not quite your neck of the woods, send us them in the post to:

Worn-out wellies,
Saltholme,
Seaton Carew Road,
Port Clarence
Middlesbrough,
TS2 1TU. 

Bye for now,

Ben.