Times and Independent Series Mitzvah Day winner announced (From Harrow Times)

Times and Independent Series Mitzvah Day winner announced

12:20pm Wednesday 16th November 2011 in News By Bruce Thain

MEMBERS of the Times and Independent Series news team will be taking to the woods for Mitzvah Day.

The team will be lending a hand at the British Trust of Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) project Coldfall wood, in Muswell Hill, on Sunday.

The journalists will be coppicing goat willow, clearing saplings along a pathway and creating a dead hedge - a barrier made from cut branches, saplings and foliage.

The project was selected from more than 20 projects put forward in a competition launched in September to find a worthy cause for the team to get involved in the Jewish-led annual good deed day.

The winner was decided by a judging panel which included MP Mike Freer and founder of Mitzvah Day Laura Marks.

Last year the news team helped at Meryfield Community Primary School, in Theobald Street, Borehamwood, by creating a garden.

Times and Independent series group editor Martin Buhagiar said: "Thanks to everyone who submitted ideas for our Mitzvah Day project. We are all looking forward to lending a helping hand to the British Trust of Conservation Volunteers at Coldfall Wood on Sunday."