David Papadopoulos, Durham Woodland Revival & Woodland Trust Community Woods volunteer describes ground-based research he's been doing since September 2020, on behalf of Rachael Cranch and the Community Woods team. David has been visiting woodlands around County Durham looking for evidence of community involvement, speaking with...
Hello Scotland Volunteers! I hope you're all having a wonderful autumn and are able to be out and about in your volunteering roles with us now that Covid rules are easing. Of course some of you have desk based roles so have been busy continuing throughout...
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...
The Smithills Estate is home to Forest Futures forest school. The school received some of the Holiday Activity Fund which is a government scheme to ensure needy children were fed during the school holidays. In Bolton, the local authority provided additional funding to allow these...
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...
It's all about the trees...
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...