Dear Woodland Trust Scotland volunteers, It's been quite a year and perhaps the most notable memory from 2020 for us in terms of volunteering is that nearly all our volunteers have stuck with us! All the team at Woodland Trust Scotland would like to offer heartfelt...
We held our first all-region volunteer zoom event on Thursday 10th December from 7-8.30pm. The event was attended by 28 people. The evening started with a welcome from Amanda Bealing Volunteer Development officer, explaining the format of the evening and how to use the chat function. Rich Brown...
We’ve been living under the dark cloud of COVID this year and it feels like it’s been a worrying time for so long now. During the start of the year we went through the first lockdown, volunteering was temporarily postponed and many Woodland Trust staff...
Take a look at some of the year’s highlights here: Celebrating wardens and relief wardens across the central region During lockdown and over the summer months we saw a dramatic rise in the number of visitors to our woods. We were so pleased to be able to...
Dear Central England volunteers It would be easy, whilst writing during another England lockdown, to reflect on all the difficulty and challenges we have faced this year, but it is actually all the positive aspects of the year that are highlights that I wanted to share....
Hello all Woodland Trust Scotland volunteers, Just in case you are in need of a break from the festivities, have a go at our 'Twelve Days of Christmas Quiz'! Sit back with your mince pie and sherry and have a go, and you might pick up...
Volunteering for the Woodland Trust - What it means to me? I’ve only recently started volunteering with the Woodland Trust at Brynau woods, as a volunteer warden. My reason for volunteering is for several reasons, the first being my passion for nature itself. As a person...
Coed Ffos Las Coed Ffos Las is a young woodland bursting into life, planted on the slopes of the Gwendraeth Valley as a memorial to lives lost in the First World War. The Woodland Trust purchased the site near Llanelli in 2014. As part of the...
Christmas kicked off in style in the South East on 1st December with what we hope will become a permanent fixture in our events calendar -the Christmas quiz! Volunteer Managers and regional volunteers went head to head, answering a broad range of often tricky festive brainteasers...
Thanks to Jim Smith-Wright, South East Outreach adviser, for writing this wonderful article. Rhododendron is a massive problem in the South East, invading many of our most precious ancient woodlands and other habitats and denuding them of most of their value for wildlife. Controlling or removing...