We have for the past few years, been working with the Friends of the Railway Path, to provide materials for their hedge laying activities, from either Stratton or Warneage Woods. The Friends group is a charity that maintains the 11-mile path running from Coate Water Country...
In 2015 the Woodland Trust went through a strategic review and created a 10 year plan to steer the organisation until 2025. Part of this strategic plan was to create and update all volunteering documents, policies and procedures (Check the Library section of Whittle to see...
Observatree is currently recruiting a big cohort of new volunteers, the advert for which can be found here: https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer-with-us/opportunities/tree-health-surveyor-various-locations/ Established in 2013 and led by Forest Research, Observatree is a multi-partner project that began as a four year project with 50% funding from the EU’s LIFE...
Woodland Trust has launched a £1.6M appeal to buy a whole mountain. Fingers crossed the spectacular Ben Shieldaig will be in our care by Spring! There is a short video about the site here. Ben Shieldaig is in the Torridon range in the North-west highlands. It currently...
Hi all and happy new year Our next Smithills next task day will be on Sunday 20 January, 9.30 – 12.30. We will be tree planting, and we have a LOT of trees to plant! All Smithills volunteers, please do come along if you fancy helping...
Deep in Fingle Woods, in a quiet corner of Hall’s Cleave, a pint-sized stream carries pure Dartmoor water from the springs in the hills above. Day and night, it babbles enthusiastically to itself, tumbling through the woods along its 2-mile journey to the River Teign....
Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful break over Christmas and New Year The next task day get together for our practical volunteers for Skipton Castle woods is to be Sat 9th Feb – 11am-3pm. This will include A site visit for 2019 planning 11am...
In the summer and autumn, a group of volunteers have been assisting Dr Alison Smith from Plantlife, to carry out a citizen science survey of some of the ancient woodland boundaries in the Bovey Valley. They have been recording the lichens found growing on the ancient oaks...
... we have officially smashed our trees outside woods 2018 target! We can officially announce that our 2018 trees outside woods target has not just been met, but left in the dust (or hopefully perfect tree-growing soil). We set the ambitious target of 150,000 trees outside of...
“There have been dark moments, yes,” says Paul Selby with feeling. “Waking up to find 20 police on the street. Your neighbours being beaten up by private security officers, or taken to court on false pretences...