At the centre of the National Lottery Heritage Funded project at Smithills Estate is community work. How do we engage Bolton's communities with the site? Why are some communities not engaging with the site? And how do we open up the wellbeing value of our...
Another busy day for the Castle Hill Wood volunteers in October 2019. Another busy day for the Castle Hill Wood volunteers on 16th October 2019 as we had the services of Mark, who has many years of experience, teaching us how to fell our trees as...
Situated in the beautiful Derwent Valley, Pontburn Woods is a large area of ancient semi-natural woodland, and on Saturday 2nd November it served as the location for my first volunteer working day with the Woodland Trust. The weather forecast had promised rain and gloom, and so...
Hello all A brief update this week… Welcome Welcome to Jo Rayner (Woodland Working Group / Events Volunteer) and to Louise Coulman (Woodland Working Group)! Tree planting Thanks to everyone from Smithills who has volunteered to help out with the tree planting weeks! Lantern Parade Thanks to all the volunteers who helped the...
Thanks to everyone who came along to our last volunteer gathering of 2019, in Rydal Hall, Cumbria on Saturday. We were joined by Heather Swift, Cumbria site manager, who updated us all on what has been happening on our estate in the county. We were...
Volunteers from Hazel Pear Wood in Cheshire met for their recent volunteer task day, coppicing hazel and small trees along with crown lifting trees along the footpath. A big thanks to everyone as it has made a really big difference, with 8 members of the...
Why are fungus important to woods? Well that is a very good question and having just been on a starter course to learn about Fungus I can give you a few reasons. At the end of September, the Woodland Trust Volunteers Day for the Northern Region...
Skipton’s sold out sixth annual lantern walk took place on Saturday attended by 600 walkers. The event generated £3,000 of ticket sales and £750.00 in local business sponsorship and feedback cards from visitors were rated as ‘excellent’ overall. Starting at Skipton Castle which opened especially for the...
Hello all Staff news As some of you will already know, Andy, our Estate Ranger ,will be leaving us mid-November to move to the Lake District. We will be really sad to see Andy go, he has made a huge contribution to the project in his time...
Hello all A slightly lengthier update – lots of exciting stuff coming up! Tree planting time! First of all… next month is tree planting time! It seems not that long ago that we were all out in the hail planting trees at Walker Fold. We planted over 6000...