This is a scrub-bashing event, removing blackthorn and brambles from a meadow with the Friends of Swaines Green. For those who came in March, it's the same field, more of the same - definitely wear wellies or boots and heavy gardening gloves if you've got them.

Please sign up

so I can warn the organisers to bring more tools for more of us.

From the Friends of Swaines Green website:

"This Conservation Day will be spent reducing scrub and tree branches in Lovelocks Meadow.

All volunteers welcome, just turn up when you can for as long as you wish. Wear warm clothes, work gloves and mudproof footwear! We’ll supply all the tools."

Swaines Green is a Local Nature Reserve in Epping, where there is a programme to maintain meadow habitats, habitats that are being lost. It is part of a wildlife corridor connecting the main part of Epping Forest with the Lower Forest to the north.

There are caches around the fields, not actually in the Local Nature Reserve.

The GPS for the cache is placed at the nearest road access to the site. There are waypoints to the nearest carpark and the entrance to Lovelocks Meadow where the work is happening.

Epping is on the Central Line, but there are no buses beyond the High Street. At the time of writing, there are no engineering works planned for this weekend. It is a 10 minute walk from the bus stop near the church for buses from Harlow and Ongar (most of the local buses do not run on a Sunday.)

It is very muddy as this is published. No food or drinks are available locally, but they did offer coffee and biscuits in March, from flasks.