There is still time to book on to this exciting guided walk for Woodland Trust volunteers. The Woodland Trust is holding a guided walk for volunteers on Saturday 13th July at Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield from 1.30-4pm. Click here for more details or visit the event...
Observatree Training in Wales - 7 June 2019 What is Observatree? Observatree is an award winning collaborative project between Forest Research, Forestry England, Scottish Forestry, APHA, Defra, Fera Science Ltd, the National Trust, Natural Resources Wales and the Woodland Trust. Using citizen science the project aims to...
A group of volunteers at Langley Vale Wood recently became detectives when they were out at a training session for their bird monitoring group one morning and a helicopter appeared extremely low to the ground...
As an opportunity to thank our Scotland volunteers in Volunteers' Week we ran an ancient tree recording day at Drummond Castle near Comrie in Perthshire. 23 volunteers attended and it was a real treat of a day; massive oaks, Sequoias and sweet chestnuts, as well as...
The Fens – it’s not just flat farmland! It is a hidden world where there are little pockets of woodland area, which make up part of a mosaic of habitats which include grasslands, reed beds and pools. Last weekend Woodland Trust volunteers discovered the secrets...
The rain on the 7th made one or two of us think that Saturday 8th might be one of those rare occasions where we would cancel at the gate but no! The day was dry and increasingly sunny if a little windy. The day before...
The Woodland Trust in Northern Ireland are delighted to have been successful in securing funding from ALPHA to support upgrades to our beautiful Oakfield Glen & Bashfordsland Wood in Carrickfergus. The funding support was announced in June with work set to commence in autumn 2019 which...
During the Summer months we will be planning our volunteer engagement events for 2020 and we would like your help! We want to hear from you about the types of volunteer events you would like to attend and even what day of the week suits you...
The Faughan Valley volunteers were out in force learning about how fish grow on trees with our partner Loughs Agency in our Oaks Wood. Lionel from Loughs Agency (and WT volunteer) gave a training session on kick sampling training (getting into the river, disturbing the...
In glorious sunshine, members of the North regional team gathered at Low Burnhall, Durham, last week, to celebrate the re-naming of part of the site in honour of the man who has, quite literally, put woods and trees on the map in the North-East of...