Successful Volunteer Thank you Event – 29 June A great day was had by all at the recent volunteer get together at Welshpool on Saturday 29 June. Volunteers and staff, including Wales’ Director Natalie Buttriss, met at the village hall for tea and biscuits followed by an...
Collaboration in the Celtic Rainforest The Woodland Trust, or Coed Cadw in Wales, is working in partnership with The Snowdonia Society to work with volunteers conserving our wooded landscapes and woodland skills, particularly at our celtic rainforest site: Coed Felenrhyd & Llennyrch. We have been running...
I joined the Northern Outreach team in November 2018 as an Outreach Adviser for the Northern Forest, having been at the Trust for 3 years. It is pretty much my dream job – getting to work and live in the north, explore the wide ranging...
Nature’s Calendar is an important UK phenology database containing nearly three million records dating back to 1736. Phenology is the study of seasonal changes in plants and animals from year to year, such as flowering of plants, emergence of insects and migration of...
It was lovely to be joined by so many of you at our North East Volunteer Gathering, which took place at Gibside Estate, near Gateshead last Saturday. After a beautiful, if slightly invigorating 20 minute walk across the estate in the sunshine, the morning was spent...
Last week saw the second of this years volunteer led guided walks taking place at our Nidd Gorge site, near Knaresborough. The sun shone, the birds sang and all in all for those coming along it made for a pretty idyllic, as well as very...
You may have noticed changes over the last week when logging in and out of Whittle. Following feedback from volunteers we have opened the 'News' section of the website so that this no longer needs a password to access. You can still log in to...
A big thanks to all at Lanchester Widlife Group who have been hard at work over the last few years waging war on the himalayan balsam in Dora's Wood, near Lanchester Thanks to their amazing efforts the balsam was fairly hard to find in the wood...
A huge thank you to all of our Skipton volunteers who have given their time and energy to come and support our mobile visitor centre, which has been present on the main high street in Skipton for the last two and a half weeks. It...
A huge thanks to all of the members of the Grappenhall Wood group, Cheshire, who got together last week on the 26th June, for a day of balsam pulling at the wood. It has made a really big impact and all the hard work was...