Wood Allotments is a scheme developed by the Mersey Forest to enable woodland owners to engage local communities and manage their woods by allowing people to cut down selected trees for firewood in a woodland that is in need of thinning. It’s a great way...
Approximately £26,000 of funded access work has just been competed at Sandybrook, Preston. Sandybrook is one of a cluster of 8 Woodland Trust sites in the city of Preston which has a population of approx. one hundred and thirty thousand people. The work is part of...
Hello everyone! Just a quick message to say thank you to all of you for making the tree planting day such a success… Rob B, Phil C, Hanifah, Sue, Doug, George, Margaret, Jack, Tony and Richard for working with Mark, Andy & Richard to make tree...
For 2019, Smithills is continuing to expand the team and range of engagement offers to local communities. 2019 is promising to be another huge year for the project, so let's start off with the new member of the team. New Ranger Andy Thorn is our newest member of...
Hello all It’s been a very busy week here! Tree planting This week 260 people have helped us to plant 3,000 trees – we were joined by four local schools, the Forestry Commission, Seddons, Selfridges, Enterprise Car Hire, Co-op Insurance, Bolton at Home, AFG Law, City of...
Many thanks to Jan, Lynn, Daniela and Stephenfrom our Friends of Gorse Cover Mounds group for all the hard physical work replacing the willow in the willow arch at the Gorse Covert Mounds site, near Warrington, as well as making a new willow dome. The...
Hello all Welcome to our new volunteers – Sarah Hodgetts (Woodland Working Group / Volunteer Photographer) Gael Kouam (Woodland Working Group / Wildlife Group) Spring wildlife Our wildlife volunteers have been photographing plants and wildlife across the estate, including frogspawn and lesser celandine (the ‘herald of spring’)… spring is certainly...
This wonderful footage was forwarded on by Helen Greensmith, volunteer warden at Waukmill Woods. Helen was lucky enough to be treated to this wonderful spectacle on walking in Woodland Trust woodland one evening recently and we thought you may like to see it. This beautiful tawny...
Many thanks to everyone who joined us for our final day of our winter woodland care season for the Sibsey/Skellingthorpe team in which we gave a bit of TLC to the beautiful ancient woodland at Old Wood, Skellingthorpe. The sun shone, the birds tweeted and our...
Well, what a fabulous day we had on Saturday. Wonderful company, beautiful spring sunshine and lovely food, we couldnt have asked for more! A huge thanks to everyone who came along and joined us at our first North England volunteer gathering of the year at Norton...