A message from the Boug's Meadow volunteers:

Our picnic table and bench have served visitors for many years.

A kind donor enabled us to install a new bench in May and we now need to replace the collapsing table. We need £1,500 for a table in the same rustic style from the same craftsman.

May we ask you to consider contributing?

The rustic oak picnic bench and table at Boug’s Meadow have been well used by the local community and many visitors over nearly two decades, surviving the elements, putting up with minor vandalism and now succumbing to the inevitable onslaught of the years. In May, volunteers dismantled the old bench and craftsman Ian Varley (https://rusticcarpentry.co.uk) installed a new bench in a modern rustic style. This has been well received by visitors, much admired on National Meadows Day and we are very thankful to the Great Missenden resident who enabled this to happen with a kind and generous donation.

We now need to replace the ageing and slanting oak picnic table to match the new bench. We estimate the total cost to be close to £1,500 and have started a donation page at https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/bougs-meadow-table. We would be grateful if Prestwood Nature members would consider contributing. We would also be grateful if you would pass this request on to others who you may feel would want to help the community in this way. Thank you.

By the way, as much oak as possible from the old furniture is being kept for recycling as additional small benches for Prestwood Nature sites or elsewhere in the community.