This is a short ‘spring update’ from North West Durham. In this time of lockdown and restricted movement, may I share an update on the progress of four Woodland Trust Woods. Our last volunteers session with the Castle Hill and Derwenthead woods group was back in...
Cherry Tree planting at Hedley Hall Wood. Volunteers met on 11th January 2020 at the Hedley Hall Wood car park on the County Durham / Gateshead border to top-up some of the 50,000 trees planted over the previous winter with some cherry trees. The initial planting...
A team of 16 scouts from Consett supported the Woodland Trust on a cold and snowy December day at our Four Lane Ends Wood and Castle Hill Wood locations in North West Durham. Located near to the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty means that...
Drystone experience at Castle Hill Wood. 18th December 2019 was a frosty but dry day on the hilltop location overlooking the lovely Derwent Valley in County Durham. Under the guidance of Peter our trainer for the day, the Castle Hill Wood volunteers focused on the repair...
Another busy day for the Castle Hill Wood volunteers in October 2019. Another busy day for the Castle Hill Wood volunteers on 16th October 2019 as we had the services of Mark, who has many years of experience, teaching us how to fell our trees as...
Stock Fence training days for the North East area. 27 & 28 September 2019: Nunsbrough Wood near Hexham, Northumberland was the location of another training event organised for Woodland Trust Volunteers in the North East. Following on from a training session earlier in the year which...
Multi tasking Volunteer day at Castle Hill Wood in County Durham 18th September 2019 : Following a summer of tube straightening events at three of our recently planted woods, we had a team of seven volunteers keen to start work in the Castle Hill Wood in...
On 21 August the Woodland Trust volunteers looking after Castle Hill and the three Derwenthead Woods in North West Durham welcomed additional support from a team of volunteers from the NHS. Working with NHS Corporate Services, a volunteers day was organised at Bale Hill Wood...
Introduction day organised by the Woodland Trust and Living Woods North East. A team of seven Woodland Trust volunteers met up at the lovely Hedley Hall Wood location close to the Gateshead/ County Durham border on 17th August 2019 for an introduction day organised by the...
New colour 'Welcome' signs installed at Castle Hills Wood. Following the 'Standard Estate Signage August 2018' the roll out of new signs has been completed by a volunteer at the Castle Hills Wood and adjacent Four Lane Ends Wood near Consett in County Durham. Other...