Whistlewood Common hosted a meeting of the newly-formed National Forest Community Woods Network at its Melbourne site in South Derbyshire on Friday 1 October. This network is a joint initiative between The Woodland Trust and The National Forest Company which seeks to increase opportunities for success...
Hello there, As summer draws to its conclusion, I wonder how time has flown by so quickly! Not that I am complaining, autumn has always been my favourite time of the year, a time of change in the natural world and (in my opinion) the best time...
As you may know, Ash dieback is a serious fungal disease that is killing ash trees across Europe. Young trees can die quickly once infected, while older trees can be slowly killed by a yearly cycle of infection. One such wood that has been affected...
It's so important to engage young people in our work...
At the end of 2019 I got involved in the joint National Trust/Woodland Trust project ‘Reconnecting Grantham to its historic landscape’, first as a history and heritage researcher, then as a photographer, both my passions and also my professions. In January 2020 Heather Cook, now...
In this article Bernard Love describes his experience as a volunteer at Glen Finglas in the heart of the Scottish Trossachs. How did my Woodland Trust volunteering experience begin? I began my role as a Woodland Engagement Volunteer in January 2020. I was to be based in...
Dear Volunteers, I don’t know about you, but I feel as though life is going whoosh again and there’s barely time for anything! As such I have organised our news in order of how much time it may take from your busy schedules –...
Once again a big thank you to Geoff Foale who records and takes these amazing photos of the insects he finds when visiting Averton & Woodleigh woods, and provides the ID for them and also sends us in a brilliant spreadsheat will all of his...
We are in the 200th year since the Granite Tramway from the Haytor Quarries to Ventiford Basin on the Stover Canal was opened as Devon’s first railroad on Dartmoor. It was an incredible engineering achievement rolling 7 miles across the landscape and, unusually, its rails were...
Autumn is upon us, and as trees and shrubs start to change colour, so too begins the gathering of apples, pumpkins and other crops. Woodland has its own harvesters preparing for the winter ahead and one such species is the jay. Easily spotted by pale pink...