Jupiter Artland was the backdrop on 8th September for our third volunteer gathering in Scotland this year. The setting was a stunning stately home, owned by a family who have filled their beautiful grounds with public artworks. [caption id="attachment_6462" align="aligncenter" width="439"] Our wonderful group at Jupiter -...
We are looking for volunteers to help out this coming weekend at the fantastic annual Forest Fest that takes place at the Highland Folk Museum (HFM), Newtonmore, this year on Sat 11 & Sun 12 August. We've had a few people drop out so we are on...
The Royal Highland Show was blessed with four days of wall to wall sunshine and so was incredibly well attended. Our Woodland Trust stand was jam-packed with visitors and so having volunteers there to help out was incredibly helpful!...
Mix together 14 volunteers, great conversation, fantastic local food, sunshine, a H&S talk, a guided walk in Kinclaven Bluebell Woods, a Risk Assessment role play workshop, tree pruning training and fun on a swing and you have the recipe for a perfect day. Saturday 23rd June was our 3rd volunteer networking...
On Saturday 9th June, Glencharnoch Wood Woodland Wardens Roy Brown and Michelle Green and Site Manager Ross Watson, ran a small work party to continue the improvements on the paths in this beautiful Caledonian pine forest in the Cairngorms. 20 tons of material, transported into the...
One of the ways we celebrated National Volunteers' Week in Scotland was a mammoth ancient tree recording day at the beautiful Drummond Castle Gardens near Comrie in Perthshire. 22 of us, including 19 registered Woodland Trust volunteers, recorded over 450 trees! We recorded over a mile of incredible...
On Sunday 29th April, members of the Woodland Trust Portmoak Moss volunteer Woodland Working Group joined forces with Butterfly Conservation Scotland's Bog Squad, to remove rejenerating birch from the highly biodiverse bog area of Portmoak Moss. There was a great turnout and removing encroaching birch will help to maintain populations...
One of our MOREwoods clients has nearly 900 trees to plant on her land near Riccarton Mill in the Scottish Borders this season, but is physically unable to plant them herself. Four gallant Woodland Trust volunteers came to the rescue last weekend, including Keith Knight,...
Beautiful, snowy Cairngorm mountains provided a stunning backdrop for the first of four Woodland Trust Scotland volunteer gatherings of 2018. Ancient Woodland Restoration (AWR) was the theme, and the 15 volunteers attending heard from AWR project staff all about the 3 year Heritage Lottery funded...