Coffee and cheese scones have become the traditional start to the day for a small group of tree recorders in south east Scotland. In early September we met at a cafe near Pathhead, a village on the main road south from Edinburgh to plan our...
On 23rd and 24th September the staff team from Woodland Trust Scotland descended on the village of Shieldaig to put our heads together about our plans for this spectacular new aquisition in terms of restoring and expanding this special forested mountain. [caption id="attachment_13618" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Ben Shieldaig...
Our first Scotland Volunteering Conference was held at the Birnam Arts and Conference Centre in Perthshire over the weekend. I would like to thank each and every one of you that came along to the event. For me it was all about the people, and...
A huge thank you to everyone who came along and joined us at our latest volunteer gathering, taking place at Shipley Country park last Saturday The day started with a really interesting and useful update about all of our work on local woodland trust sites by...
The series of volunteer-led walks at Hackfall continued as part of the Heritage Open Days weekend on September 14th and 15th. Although the weather varied considerably, with the Trust marquee getting blown to the side of the field at one point, there were four successful...
Stock Fence training days for the North East area. 27 & 28 September 2019: Nunsbrough Wood near Hexham, Northumberland was the location of another training event organised for Woodland Trust Volunteers in the North East. Following on from a training session earlier in the year which...
Dear Ancient Tree Inventory Team, I hope you have had another great month recording trees to the Ancient Tree Inventory and thank you very much for all of your continued efforts on the project. This month I was excited to welcome 3 new verifiers to the project!...
After 18 months in development we are at last ready to launch our brand new website. The new site will go live on Tuesday morning – and we wanted let you know first. The new site has been designed with website users in mind so...
On Wednesday 25 September volunteers gathered to celebrate and acknowledge The Charter for Trees, Woods and People at Joyden’s Wood. Twenty five volunteers from a variety of roles came together for a guided walk around the wood which was beautifully narrated around The Tree Charter. [caption...
On Wednesday 21 August, a group of Woodland Trust volunteers teamed up with staff at the Bumble Bee Conservation Trust to record and monitor the various species of bees which can be found at Victory Wood, our very special site on the edge of the...