Why are fungus important to woods? Well that is a very good question and having just been on a starter course to learn about Fungus I can give you a few reasons. At the end of September, the Woodland Trust Volunteers Day for the Northern Region...
Skipton’s sold out sixth annual lantern walk took place on Saturday attended by 600 walkers. The event generated £3,000 of ticket sales and £750.00 in local business sponsorship and feedback cards from visitors were rated as ‘excellent’ overall. Starting at Skipton Castle which opened especially for the...
Hello all Staff news As some of you will already know, Andy, our Estate Ranger ,will be leaving us mid-November to move to the Lake District. We will be really sad to see Andy go, he has made a huge contribution to the project in his time...
Have you heard of or ever visited Aversley Wood? Off the beaten track, this ancient woodland is positioned near to the village of Sawtry and can be seen from the A1. Aversley Wood is a 61.6 hectare site and its position means it offers amazing...
The other week I journeyed to Felixstowe to visit the marvellous Woodland Working group based at Abbey Grove. The group have been on site for a number of years, carrying out a number of activities in order to keep the wood well maintained. Normally meeting...
On Thursday this week, a motivated team of 16 volunteers from Avison Young braved the morning drizzle to help clear rubbish from our small and very special Saxton’s & Cage’s Wood. This hidden gem in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is just...
In Scotland we are embracing the Trust's Big Climate Fightback, which aims to have 1 million people pledging to plant a tree on 30th November 2019. It would be great if all of our Scotland volunteers would pledge to plant a tree; you can plant...
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 saw an extra 609 new records added and 449 trees verified...
We were excited to welcome astronaut Tim Peake and the BBC team last week to Binswood, one of our woods in Hampshire. The team were filming for BBC Autumnwatch! Site Manager Phil Truluck took the crew to the most scenic spots for filming along with being all...
At the start of autumn, the Fingle Woods partnership held an open day of hands-on family-friendly woodland exploration. Nearly 170 people from the local community and further afield braved a typical Dartmoor mixed weather forecast, and ventured to the Wooston Castle area of Fingle Woods...