A £1 million push for the Faughan Valley landscape gets underway The National Lottery Heritage Fund (HF) has announced funding of over £484,400 for a Woodland Trust project set to revitalise the Faughan Valley landscape, on the outskirts of Derry/Londonderry. The funding boost will enable the...
Volunteers came together last week for our last volunteer task day of 2019. We visited Drumnaph Woodland in Maghera and worked within the wetland area to cut and remove willow that was starting to dry up the ground. The wetland provides such a range of...
Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award participant Patrick and his dad got to work with routine thinning in Canal Wood using a Canadian cross cut saw. Apart from being a very efficient piece of kit (no fuel required, other than tea and wheaten bread!) the soothing zing...
On 28th August, 15 volunteers from across Northern Ireland came together for a special visit to Mount Stewart a National Trust owned estate. Set alongside Strangford lough on the Ards Peninsula the estate spans across 1000 acres. Woodland Trust volunteers were met by National Trust Area Ranger...
The Woodland Trust in Northern Ireland are delighted to have been successful in securing funding from ALPHA to support upgrades to our beautiful Oakfield Glen & Bashfordsland Wood in Carrickfergus. The funding support was announced in June with work set to commence in autumn 2019 which...
During the Summer months we will be planning our volunteer engagement events for 2020 and we would like your help! We want to hear from you about the types of volunteer events you would like to attend and even what day of the week suits you...
The Faughan Valley volunteers were out in force learning about how fish grow on trees with our partner Loughs Agency in our Oaks Wood. Lionel from Loughs Agency (and WT volunteer) gave a training session on kick sampling training (getting into the river, disturbing the...
It's that time of year again when The Woodland Trust is urging trees lovers to stump up nominations for Northern Ireland's Tree of the Year 2019. A tree may be a village's oldest inhabitant, a founding figure in a region's identity, a natural monument in the...
Woodland working group members at Oakfield Glen & Bashfordsland Wood got a lovely sunny day for their last task day on site! The group got stuck into sowing some wildflower sees sourced from Eco seeds along the edges of the pathway. The group meet every 2nd...
The sun was shining at Monkstown Wood in Northern Ireland on Saturday - despite the freezing winds - as over 100 people took part in our annual Easter Trail. This is the second year running the event at this woodland and numbers have increased since...