On the 10th May we gathered for our launch event at Mead in Derbyshire, the UK’s first Young People’s Forest. This new 162ha site is a former open cast coal mine, similar in many respects to QEDJW in Leicestershire. However this new acquisition has the added...
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Great to see so many people at our volunteer thank you event at Smithills last week! Around 40 people attended our thank you event at Smithills Hall, where the various groups (Wardens, Wildlife, History and Education) gave a review of the year from their perspective and...
Spud Wood is 21 years old in 2019 and to celebrate this Friends of Spud Wood (FoSW) and The Woodland Trust wanted to do something to encourage more people to visit and enjoy the wood. FoSW have built a permanent orienteering course with the support...
The Hawthorn blossom at How Tun wood near Barrow in Furness this Spring has been a magnificent show, loads of pollen for the bees and plenty of future berries for the birds this winter. ...
This took place on 19 May 2019: Fourteen attendees had a busy one day course at Scotton Village Hall followed by a walkabout in the Nidd Gorge woodland near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire with Edward Mills, where he shared his skills and experience as a Chartered...
Choosing a May Bank Holiday to hold an event, in hindsight was probably not a great idea and volunteer numbers were half (if not more) than usual. This however, turned out not to be so bad after all. The fruits of our efforts last June when...
Recently Ripley Castle, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire hosted a motley crew of Woodland Trust volunteers in their lovely tower conference room. Ripley Castle is a Grade I listed 14th-century country house in Ripley, North Yorkshire, England, 3 miles north of Harrogate set among extensive gardens...
Yesterday saw the launch of our new volunteer led guided walks programme at Hackfall. A huge thanks to Paul Randall and Tom Richardson, two of our new guided walk leaders, who led the walk. Hackfall sits just outside the village of Grewelthorpe in North Yorkshire. The beautiful woodland landscape...
A busy day at the Four Lane Ends Wood. 15th May 2019 : The 5 person team of volunteers have spent a busy day working in the wood which was planted a few years ago on an exposed hill near Consett in the beautiful North West...