[From Broadleaf Magazine, Winter 2019] From little acorns by Kit Buchan The Woodland Trust plans to plant 3 million trees this winter. Kit Buchan explores the network of seed-hunters, nursery workers, tree planters and companies involved in growing and nurturing all these trees, discovering some of the sapling...
[from Broadleaf Magazine, Winter 2019] A New Leaf? As part of the its response to climate crisis, the Trust is offering free trees, expert advice and grants to councils. Almost 130 councils have pledged to plant millions of saplings to combat carbon emissions, create new woodlands and...
Hello all Welcome Welcome to John Shannon, Darran Hamilton and Diane Berg Oliveira! Hope you enjoy your time volunteering with us. Smithills Volunteer Awards At the SSG meeting we had our very first volunteer awards. We had asked you all to come up with nominations for the awards, and...
Come and join us this winter for tree planting at the new Young People's Forest at Mead, as part of the #iwill campaign to promote youth social action. Help us plant the first trees on the former opencast site adjacent to Shipley County Park in...
Woodland Working Group at Canal Wood, Newry were able to dodge the bad weather at the weekend to make it out on site for a task day. Joining the group for the first time yesterday was new volunteer Katherine. Long standing group member Bruce helped Katherine...
During National Bird Box Week, two Woodland Trust volunteers worked alongside a volunteer from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to put up 40 bird boxes at Coed Y Foel. This location was chosen after BTO volunteer Andy Turner informed Becky Good (North West Wales...
The 19th February marked a key date in the Coed Cadw Calendar as myself and Rob Davies welcomed our new Woodland Working Group Members to their base at Wentwood Forest. After a brief introduction we took the forest path down to The Glade Tea Rooms where...
Yesterday, as part of a three day regional gathering, RSPB offered their help to carry out some work in the Woodland Trust’s Glencharnoch Wood in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park. Over the course of the afternoon, 46 staff helped recreate open water...
Despite recent heavy rain and windy weather, volunteers from Butcher’s Wood have continued their coppicing work this winter to help improve the woodland ecology at the site. Butchers Wood is a small (7.12ha) ancient semi-natural woodland at the northern boundary of the South Downs National Park...
[caption id="attachment_16129" align="alignleft" width="225"] Simon and Tish with their farewell cakes[/caption] Volunteers from Langley Vale Wood bid farewell to site manager Simon Bateman-Brown on Thursday 20 February, as he leaves the Woodland Trust for pastures new at Kent Wildlife Trust. Simon has been with the Trust since...