I was delighted to hear from George Guthrie, who is a volunteer warden as well as a wildlife monitor at our beautiful Portmoak Moss site in Kinross-shire, that he has been able to get out monitoring invertebrates again at Portmoak Moss. George has been monitoring the...
The Buttercups are now blooming in Haddon Wood and there are three different species, so I thought it would be nice to look at them. Interestingly the name Buttercup did not come into common use until the middle of the eighteenth century. Before that there...
Woodland warden, guided walk leader and volunteer speaker, Ian Retson is a super volunteer! He is based in Leicestershire and predominantly carries out volunteering at Willesley Wood, but has also volunteered at neighbouring Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Wood (QEDJW). Ian has been volunteering with the Woodland Trust for 29 years and has supported...
Gavin has been a volunteer with us at Brynau for less than a year and he’s already got multiple volunteer roles under his belt. Gavin attended a public tree planting event at Brynau just before Covid hit in March 2020. He got talking to the site...
Dear Volunteers, I want to say thank you to everyone for your commitment to volunteering with the Woodland Trust over the last twelve months. With the different lockdown restrictions, it's been impossible at times for volunteering to take place safely. Thank you for your patience with...
What a pleasant surprise to find I'd been out and about volunteering in the Woodland Trust Scotland Glen Finglas estate for ten years! I’ve spent lots of days at the site doing conservation work and meeting people and sometimes both - and still do. Compared...
This Volunteers Week 2021, we celebrate all volunteers, not least our fantastic wardens who have been tirelessly monitoring and supporting sites throughout COVID and beyond (yes, there is a beyond, we promise!) One such busy volunteer is Steve, who covers several woods on his patch. This...
Starting in August 2020, Denny signed up as a woodland warden just at a time when we looked for more volunteer support across our estate. Having volunteers who could act as our ‘eyes and ears’ on site is a huge help during ‘normal’ years, however,...
Dear South West Volunteers I wanted to wish you all a very happy National Volunteers Week and thank you for all your hard work and dedication. Thank you to the volunteers who have been able to continue volunteering for us during the restrictions, and to those...
Around six years ago Antony attended a Woodland Trust guided walk at Plas Power Woods, near Wrexham, by the same time the next year he was leading the walk himself as a volunteer! As a keen hiker and nature lover, Antony attended the Clywedog Trail walk...