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Dinton Pastures Country Park, Hurst will be awash with volunteers this Friday – just two weeks after 365 volunteers carried out a year’s worth of conservation work in one day.

Generous staff from leading financial firm Deloitte’s Reading office will be giving Hurst countryside rangers a hand with a variety of manual tasks at the borough’s largest country park on Friday, including: reed management, building walkways, clearing park debris and sprucing it up ready for the autumn.

The clean-up is part of Deloitte’s pledge to support community projects – throughout September 1,500 of the company’s employees will be taking a day out of the office to take part in 75 different projects, one of which is the Dinton Pastures conservation day.

The volunteers will build on the impressive work that 350 Microsoft employees carried out at the beginning of the month.

Lynn Yardley, Hurst countryside ranger, said: “To have so many volunteers help us carry out vital conservation work at Dinton Pastures is absolutely amazing and I’d like to thank everyone from Deloitte in advance for helping us on Friday – without the hard work of volunteers we wouldn’t be able to provide such an enjoyable, well used and diverse park.”

Deloitte managing partner with executive responsibility for community investment, Heather Hancock, said: “We encourage and support all our people to get involved with our community programme by raising funds, contributing ideas and using their talents – benefiting both the community organisations they support and their own skills and development.

Wokingham Borough Council ~ Hurst