Spruit cleanup 18 September 2022
We had a successful spruit clean up on Saturday 18th September. Thank you to the following people for helping: Members Lindi Norval, Astrid Bredenkamp, Margie Rutsch, and Jenny Laurens Missionaries Elders Roth and Fowers Sutherland High School – Rowan and his nine...
Spruit Activities 23 July 2022
Please click here to open the PDF file: 20220723 Spruit activities On Tuesday 9th August (women’s day) FODS will be manning a table at the Doringkloof Market. We will be selling Elaine’s Birding products to raise funds for FODS. Regards The...
Cycle the Spruit 23rd July 2022
Good afternoon, Friends We invite you and your family and friends to enjoy exploring and cycling in the Doringkloof spruit this Saturday 23rd July. All the main gates will be open from 8h00 to 16h00 to give you easy access to the veld with your bicycles. Please make...
Autum walk in the Spruit.
Good morning, Friends Autumn is here in full swing, and I am enjoying the lovely colours in the spruit. There has already been some frost in the early mornings. The sunsets these last few days have been spectacular – the whole western sky is washed in orange and...
Meet & Greet at the Mall Saturday 26 March 2022
The DNW committee asked me to organize a meet & greet table on Saturday morning 26 March from 09:00-11:00 at the Doringkloof Mall to introduce us to our residents. We started setting up at 08:30 in front of the empty shop next to the biltong shop and after some...
FODS feedback of Evening walk in the Spruit 16 March 2022
Hello Friends For those who did not manage to join us on Saturday evening for a beautiful walk in the Doringkloof Spruit, I have attached a collage of some photos I took. We had a great turnout, and many new friends were made. It was most exciting for the children...
Freinds of the Doringkloof Spruit News 9 March 2022
Good afternoon, Friends Thank you to everyone who has renewed their Friends membership for 2022. We really do appreciate your support. The money from your subs gets used to assist Nature Conservation in maintaining our Doringkloof Spruit. All your Friends cards have...
Friends of the Doringkloof Spruit (FoDS) – Spruit cleanup by boys from Midstream School
Good evening, Friends It is wonderful to see everything looking green and lush and I am so glad the tractor has recently mowed the fields. Walking in the veld is such a pleasure. We were fortunate to have four young men from Midstream school pick up litter in...
FODS WORK PARTY 6 February 2022
Good afternoon Friends World Wetlands month has certainly made itself known lately with all this incredible rain. I was sorry to cancel the work party on Saturday morning, as in the end it actually stopped raining and it was beautiful. But we made up for it on Sunday...
World Wetland Day 2 February 2022
Good morning Friends We are well into the new year now and I trust you are well and ready for fresh challenges! We had our first committee meeting yesterday, on World Wetlands Day, so I thought I would pop some links into my email to remind us of what incredible...