As a Mentor for The Orchard Project – a charity dedicated to the creation, restoration, and celebration of community orchards – Ranger Lesley Wertheimer works across London, advising and giving workshops on orchard care and maintenance. Orchards require regular attention, and Mentors like Lesley help to not only maintain orchards, but ensure community members are involved, knowledgeable, and passionate. One such orchard is in the Rouel Road housing estate in Bermondsey, where 24 fruit trees and 135 metres of fruiting hedge were planted by a multi-generational group of community members. A number of events take place at the orchard, teaching people not just about the fruit trees and hedges, but other plants and wildlife too. Past events have included bulb planting, bird and bat box building workshops and community wassails.