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2017

  • 23 September.  Raking the meadow.
     

  • 1 September.  Mowing the meadow.
     

  • 8 July.  Church Fete at Palstone meadows.
     

  • 29 June.  Volunteer day.
     

  • 17 June.  Carnival Street Fair.
     

  • 24 May.  Bracken pulling.
     

  • 15 April.  Brent Island  Family Easter Egg Trail
     

  • 11 April.  Working Party.
     

  • 13 March.  Replanting of the apple tree.

  • Wednesday 3rd August.  Working party
     

  • 30th June.   Brent Island Trust Annual General Meeting
     

  • 27 May.  The Annual Leat Clearing
     

  • Saturday 26th March.  Brent Island Family Easter Egg Trail
     

  • Thursday 11th February.  Brent Island Trust Members Management Meeting

2016

2015

  • 20th June.  South Brent Carnival. 
     

  • May.  Wild Food Forage with South Brent Guides Guides.
     

  • 5th April.  Brent Island Family Easter EggTrail
     

  • 11th July.  Brent Island at St Petroc's church fete.
     

  • 21st June.  Annual General Meeting with guest speaker Scott West who is Project Manager for Westcountry Rivers Trust.
     

  • 20th June.  Brent Island's "Treasure Hunt" game proved to be popular at the South Brent Carnival.
     

  • March.  Brent Island linhay display was refurbished

Before 2015

  • 2014 Island Trust 20th Anniversary Celebration Fair Saturday 7th June
     

  • Reconstruction of the fish ladder
     

  • 2010 Planting of small orchard of native apple trees in memory of our late Secretary Don Stansbury and others
     

  • 2004 Celebration party on the Island to mark 10th anniversary of purchase
     

  • 2003 Weir rebuilt by South West Highways using pumped concrete at a cost of £41,415; grants of £17,024 from Heritage Lottery Fund, £13,000 Environment Agency, £5,000 Awards for All, £1,500 South Brent Parish Council, £1,000 Dartmoor National Park Authority
     

  • 2000 Night of 31st December/1st January 2001 – weir washed away by storm which raised the river to record flood levels
     

  • 1997 Derelict Linhay rebuilt by Alan Lake and reopened. Cost: £17,325; grants of £13,813 from Heritage Lottery Fund, £2,000 Dartmoor Trust, £500 English China Clays, and £500 from the Spurr family
     

  • 1996 Winners of the Assn of National Parks Authorities award for community projects in Southern England and Wales, Runners Up in national awards to multi-million pound Wensleydale Creamery revival
     

  • 1995 Winners of Dartmoor National Park Authority’s Edward Morshead Award ‘for community projects which contribute to the quality of the landscape’, for purchase of the Island and restoration of the weir
     

  • 1995 Weir stabilised and rebuilt using compacted lose stone, and 14 4-ton boulders donated by English China Clays. Cost: £4,317; grants of £2,000 from Rural Action and £1,000 from Dartmoor National Park
     

  • 1994 Granted charitable status and became the Brent Island Trust

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