Neil is one of the Trust’s eight Site Managers across the North England region whose generic work role is to look after anything between four to sixty different sites, often with very different types of management required, depending on the age, size and rural or...
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 –...
North England Virtual Talks Programme We have been delighted to welcome so many of you to our regional virtual talks programme that has taken place over the course of 2021. We do still have a number of talks running over the remainder of this year, details...
Welcome everyone to our North England September volunteer update. Many thanks for all your time and support over what has been a challenging year so far. Despite everything that has been thrown at us though we have still managed and continue to achieve so much together....
This month, we would like to recognise and extend a very special thanks to two of our North England volunteer team members. Firstly Alan Wallace, Group Leader at our Castle Hills Wood. Alan has worked tirelessly over the last few years developing and building group activity...
We would like to offer a very warm welcome to all of our new North England volunteers who have joined us over the last month or so. It has been a really busy time, with over 40 new volunteers joining our North England team. We...
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...
Olivia Bere MacVarish has just joined our Woodland Trust Scotland volunteering team. She is a new warden at Abriachan Wood as well as a tree seed collector. [caption id="attachment_22684" align="alignnone" width="240"] Olivia[/caption] Abriachan Wood, with it's breathtaking views of of Loch Ness in the Great Glen,...
Thank you to the overwhelming numbers of you who have signed up to our Scotland Tree Seed Collection Project! We have had an unprecedented response to our recruitment drive for this volunteering role and it just goes to show that so many people are just...