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26 April 2026

Dear Volunteers,

Looking forward to seeing lots of you at our Open Day later on today where the site is open to all for free.. ☀️ Thanks for offering to help out, it should be a lovely Sunday with this beautiful weather.

Swan News 🦢
I’m sure many of you already know that as of Friday we have five cygnets hatched, with two eggs left. We’ll have to wait and see what happens next… keep watching the 24 hour swan cam 👀

Health & Safety Update – Splash Play Area (Dragon’s Lair) 🐉
Please note an important update to health and safety procedures due to the new Splash Play Area in the Dragon’s Lair:

Any biohazard contamination anywhere on site (e.g. blood, vomit, etc.) must only be dealt with by a member of paid staff, who will follow current guidance from The Palace Trust. Volunteers are not expected to deal with this kind of situation.

Volunteer Coffee Dates ☕
Please make a note of the upcoming volunteer coffee meet-up dates:

Tuesday 28th April, 2:00pm
Friday 29th May, 11:00am (Gardeners Mess Room)
Thursday 23rd July, 11:00am
Tuesday 29th September, 2:00pm
Friday 20th October, 2:00pm (Gardeners Mess Room)
Thursday 26th November, 11:00am

Please note that we are changing the Gardeners Mess Room dates from the Tuesday dates to the Friday dates instead. All other dates will be held in the Laundry Room.

Egg Boxes – Urgent Request for Open Day 🥚
If anyone has spare 6-egg boxes, please bring them along today to the Community Garden for today’s Open Day.

Volunteer Expenses – Important Reminder ❗
Please ensure that you complete all sections of the volunteer expenses claim form. The parts most often missed are:

-Where you have travelled from
-The total mileage
-Whether you are using an electric car

It can be very time-consuming for the person inputting the details to have to look up missing information or calculate totals. If you use an electric car, this helps us reduce our carbon footprint, and we would like to record that. Please add this information in the bottom left-hand corner of the form. You will still receive 45p per mile.

Bath Abbey Trip 🏰
We had a fabulous Volunteer trip to Bath Abbey last Thursday with 15 volunteers. It was a fantastic day out, and our tours were fantastic, with the Tower Tour offering incredible views over Bath.

Thank you all, and we look forward to seeing many of you later😊

Best wishes,

Gemma

Here are a couple of photos for April