After a break of 2 years the Great Yorkshire Show returned to a hot and sunny Harrogate, North Yorkshire, last week for 4 days. With covid still firmly on the radar visitor numbers were capped at 26k per day (usually 45k) but this made for a...
There's lots going on at the Young People's Forest at Mead this summer starting off with a series of Woodland Workshops for 11 -14 year olds. Themes cover, nature and art, forest food webs and animal homes, these will run for 5 days over the...
Wild Ingleborough is a landscape-scale ecological restoration initiative in the Yorkshire Dales National Park working to restore natural ecological processes for the benefit of nature, people and our climate. Working with neighboring farmers and communities, the Wild Ingleborough partnership brings together land managers, NGOs and...
We still have some availability left for next weeks virtual talk introducing and updating you on our fantastic citizen science project, Nature's Calendar...
Smithills Estate welcomed more than 20 peers across the conservation sector to the first of the events in the demonstration element of the project. Visitors from EA, River Trusts, National Trust and United Utilities, plus others, joined us on a walk to take in some...
Two second year students from the University of Nottingham, Tilly and Lewis, have just completed 5 weeks of work experience with me and Emily Moore at the Young People’s Forest, Mead, they spent two days a week with us and during that period and were...
A pedestrian access improvement project has just been completed at Greendale Wood in Lancashire. The funding from The Fort Foundation which was secured by Liz McLelland has delivered a much-needed new pedestrian footbridge and steps at the much-loved community woodland. Greendale Wood was created at...
Litter picking events have been springing up across Warrington recently with the easing of lockdown restrictions and a growing appreciation of our beautiful environment locally. Keep Britain Tidy have been holding their Great British Spring Clean nationally from 28 May to 13 June 2021 and...
Hi all Hoping everyone is well and enjoying some sunshine! Welcome We have two new volunteers - Fire Patrollers Rak Patel and Tony Hemans. Welcome both! Volunteer Thank You event We would usually have held our annual volunteer thank you event during the first week of June. However, we want...
Volunteers Alan Hunton and Judy Dowling led a wonderful walk through part of Duncombe Estate yesterday, 9th June, to view ancient and veteran trees and explain the WT's Ancient Tree Inventory. The event was hosted by Sam Lewsey of Ryevitalise and was open to the...