The very first River Worth Friends AGM

River Worth Friends AGM, Tuesday 2nd May 7.00pm at The Marquis of Granby, Riddlesden.

At River Worth Friends we are very excited about our AGM (not really but you have to say that sort of thing!), it will be our first ever annual general meeting.

River Worth Friends was formed about four years ago to work to both improve the river as a habitat for wildlife and also to show the local community what an asset the river could be to them. Of course covid and the ensuing lockdowns stopped face to face meetings so we have never got round to having a proper live business meeting. With the exciting new developments on the river we thought it was time to correct that.

The River Worth Restoration Project with the Aire Rivers Trust and Keighley Big Local, involves a lot of volunteer work to enhance access along the river and to  improve wildlife habitat in the river. A network of water monitors has also been set up to keep a check on the water quality in the river. We also have plans for events to celebrate the river later in the year.

We have a great team of volunteers who come out to help with our weekly litter picks and river clearances but there is a lot of organising that goes on behind the scenes, the AGM will help to highlight some of this back room activity and hopefully encourage people to become involved. 

​All this might sound a bit boring! We hope the evening won’t be. The plan is to get the business side over with fairly quickly and get onto something more interesting. We will have litter bingo, the prizes being stuff we have pulled out of the river, who would want to miss that! We will also have a presentation about the history of the river from Irene Lofthouse who likes to dress for the part. Irene if always informative and entertaining.

The big prize for the litter bingo so far!

​It should be an interesting evening and also a way to find out more about the workings of the RWF.

Irene Lofthouse as Nacy Newbody. (Photo courtesy of Tony O'Connell)