Since the beginning of November Practical Conservation Volunteering has returned to the Nidd Gorge. A team of up to 6 Woodland Trust volunteers, operating 2 mornings a week in a COVID safe way, has been tackling invasive holly thickets on the banks of the Nidd where...
It’s been such a strange year this year. I signed up to volunteer in Skipton Castle Woods in March 2020 along with my mum but due to the pandemic we had to wait until November to get our boots muddy. Six of us were finally...
Hello all Welcome! We have some new members of the volunteer group this week – welcome to Joe Holt – joining both the Patrollers group and Wildlife Group Sue Fielding, Dawn Axon, Gillian Marsh, Babs Winder, Chris Speed, Stephen Tonge, Karen Mather, Dorothy Snelson, Stirling Smith and Linda Smith...
We are delighted to share a few photos from our Frodsham volunteers who resumed COVID safe practical task days last month and have been busy removing old trees tubes and stakes at Woodhouse Hill near Frodsham, Cheshire. With the support and help of group leader Tim...
The Smithills Estate – a place for enterprise and community Smithills Estate, near Bolton, is the largest site the Trust has ever acquired in England. Steeped in history and overshadowed by the famous Winter Hill TV mast, it’s a mix of grassland, farmland, moorland, wooded ravines...
In the Northern Forest, we're working in partnership with Yorkshire Water and the National Trust as part of a pilot project for the White Rose Forest’s Landscapes for Water programme. The objective on this site at Gorpley reservoir near Todmorden is to delivery 63.2 hectares...
Saturday 14th November 2020 was the first session back after the Covid restrictions,for half a dozen Thorn Wood volunteers. We successfully manage to coppice a number of hazel trees at our wonderful woodland on the outskirts of Northwich. The weather was favourable during the day, but ended...
Lockdown has, of course, posed a huge variety of issues for everyone's planned work for 2020 - but at Smithills it's also allowed us to trial new ways of engaging existing audiences, and well as reaching new ones. From March, when it became clear we would...
For this episode, Adam Shaw joins City of Trees’ Jess Thompson and Gemma Wren of the National Trust at Smithills for an introduction to the Northern Forest. During their walk, they discuss how they’re involved, what the project means for the North and why our...
Hello all Welcome Welcome to two new volunteers, Ella Standish and Katie Thompson, who have recently joined us, both as new members of the Wildlife Group. COVID restrictions It won’t have escaped your notice, I’m sure, that discussions are ongoing about Greater Manchester being put into Tier 3 restrictions....