Over the past few years a Geoff, a dedicated volunteer - has been monitoring butterflies at Stratton Wood. Over a 5 month period he spent 30 hours volunteering for us whilst he carried out this survey which gets reported to Butterfly Conservation as well as...
Beautiful, snowy Cairngorm mountains provided a stunning backdrop for the first of four Woodland Trust Scotland volunteer gatherings of 2018. Ancient Woodland Restoration (AWR) was the theme, and the 15 volunteers attending heard from AWR project staff all about the 3 year Heritage Lottery funded...
At last! The rules protecting ancient woodland from development are changing – and getting stronger. On 5 March, after years of campaigning from the Trust – backed by hundreds of thousands of people – the Government showed it had heeded our call and proposed changes to...
New Beginnings In an exciting development for volunteering at the Woodland Trust we have started developing a new volunteering framework. This is being developed in line with Investing in Volunteers which is the nationally recognised benchmark and accreditation for volunteering best practise quality standards in the...
A hundred trees planted at motorway service station A group of children from Battle Primary Academy had a lovely time helping us to plant 100 trees at MOTO's Reading East service station in January. The Moto in the Community Trust (MITC) supports the Woodland Trust by...
Volunteers are hedging their bets at Beechland Mill Wood A busy group of volunteers called Newick Rootz meets at Beechland Mill Wood in Newick, East Sussex once a year for a hedgelaying session. This year, the group met on Wednesday 21 March and had a very productive day. The group is...
Hundreds of volunteers have helped to prepare Langley Vale Wood for the World War I centenary We are creating a First World War Centenary Wood near Epsom Downs, Surrey to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War in 1918. But this isn’t just...
A good news day As we head towards the end of the planting season I wanted to share some breaking news. In Autumn 17 and Spring 18 we can count 270 hectares as already planted, ordered or having a delivery date agreed as part of the MOREwoods...
Villagers help to keep orchard in good shape The apple trees at Hucking Estate are laden with fruit this year, thanks to the hard work of our lovely volunteers. They have been busy pruning, weeding and mulching, and planting new fruit trees. They have learned how...
Des Lloyd, Volunteer Warden at Owlet Wood, has provided an update on recent activity down at the reserve helping to improve the woodland for local bird life. 'Things have been rather hectic here around the Owlets Plantation nature reserve over the last few weeks, with over...