Back in March, we released our volunteering road map and gave you all an update on what was happening with lockdown easing across our regions and countries. Given the announcements made by the various governments over the last 48 hours, we wanted to provide a further...
This year, the 10th-16th May is Mental Health Awareness week. And this year, the selected theme is ‘nature’. Mental Health Awareness Week was started by the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) 21 years ago and is an annual event when there is an opportunity for the whole of the...
Back in March last year, our volunteer bird monitoring team at Langley Vale Wood put up special nest boxes for kestrels, little owls, tawny owls and barn owls, thanks to a donation-in-kind from our friends at the RSPB's Epsom Branch. All of these species had...
Never have the benefits of green space for our mental health been clearer than during the last year. Being outside and close to nature has helped many of us through the pandemic. But our guest for this episode, Alastair Campbell, has long recognised the positive...
Butcher's Wood in Sussex is a marvellous place to visit, not least because of the sterling work done by the volunteering team, who have been busy in one form or another for decades! We are fortunate that some of the group originally involved in the...
Healthy woods, healthy lives: how green spaces can improve public health. We all know that nature can contribute to good mental health, this has become especially clear during the pandemic over the last 14 months. These case studies look at different examples of how green spaces can...
Our wardens are an amazing team who are constant eyes and ears on the ground for Site Managers, who can't be everywhere at the same time! They have a busy and varied role and full of challenges and successes, as you will see from this...
Hucking is a magical landscape and if you haven't visited - you really should! The Woodland Trust is also extremely fortunate to have a dedicated group of local volunteers who care for the orchard there and they have been extremely busy of late! The team were...
On 21st April we re-started our volunteer work at Castle Hill and Four Lane Ends Woods in County Durham. For the first time since February 2020, volunteers were able to work in Castle Hill and Four Lane Ends Woods in North West Durham. As the ground...
Parc Mawr is located on the western side of the lower Conwy valley, on the lower slopes of the Carneddau Mountains in Snowdonia, near the medieval town of Conwy. Every spring this gem of a woodland offers up a breath-taking display of bluebells. Rob Collister has been...