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Planning and organising

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Surfacing can be one of the least enjoyable jobs for volunteers if the wrong quantity or grade of material has been ordered, or if inadequate arrangements have been made for moving the material. Most projects can be saved by the application of some ingenuity, but the wrong material in the wrong place with no transport...

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