This is our second season of working at Millennium Wood in Grappenhall. Our main task is to thin out the trees planted eighteen years ago, letting the sunlight flood in and encourage the remaining trees to flourish, also improving ground flora and creating wildlife habitats. All...
Wadworth Shrubbery was once part of the 18th century estate of Wadworth Hall, situated on Wadworth Hall lane. This small narrow mature woodland comprises of 2.47 acres of Ancient Semi Natural Woodland, Conservation Area and Site of Scientific Interest. This site still contains some historic garden features...
Hello everyone, greetings from our team. We are 12 volunteers – some of us also Woodland Trust staff based in the Grantham HQ who felt, frankly, it wasn’t just enough to talk about woods all day long, we also wanted to get out and get...
The volunteer group at Thorn Wood, which is on the outskirts of Northwich, Cheshire, is a relatively new group which was borne out of the work done by Saltscape; a local project that came to an end in 2017. Since its beginnings a few months ago,...
Forty three people of all ages turned out to help at the start of this month for the #GBSpringClean on Birchwood Forest Park. Many thanks to The Friends of Birchwood Forest Park, the Friends of Gorse Covert Mounds and the scout groups from Locking Stumps...
A huge thanks to all of the volunteers who came along to our first North east volunteer network day last Saturday. It was wonderful to meet so many of you and put so many faces to names. Our morning was spent at Beamish Museum, where all...
We are delighted to tell you that Broadleaf packaging has had a make-over. It’s out with the previous polyethylene wrapping, and in with the lovely new FSC-certified paper envelope, beautifully designed with the issue’s front cover as above. As you’ll all be aware, there has been...
Words by Katharine Wootton from Yours magazine With many of our trees under threat as never before from disease and development, we explore the different ways three volunteers are coming to the rescue. I help ancient trees thrive – Judy Dowling As a nursery teacher Judy used to...
The Ash Project is an urgent cultural response to ash dieback led by Kent Downs AONB. The South East at the Woodland Trust team have recently supplied The Ash Project with over 1500 trees to replace diseased ash in Thorn Wood, Brockhill Country Park and Placketts...
We are running a campaign for better behaved dogs and dog owners at Moncreiffe Hill Wood outside Perth. There has been a spate of problems including livestock disturbance, fouling and out of control dogs jumping on people. Site manager Jill Aitken decided it was time to steer dog owners...