Moto in the Community (MITC) has donated £100,000 to the Woodland Trust for the second year running. Brian Larkin, MITC chairman, presented the donation to Beccy at Head Office today (29 March). MITC is the charitable arm of Moto Hospitality, which operates 45 motorway service stations across...
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At the Nature Detectives group, down in Murdishaw Wood Runcorn, we’ve been making the most of our fantastic winter. As well as the obligatory snow men, we’ve found lots of natural obstacles in the woods and used trees as balance beams, limboed under and hung...
We need lots of helping hands to remove invasive goldenrod from Warren Farm Alissa Wilson is the Site Manager for Warren Farm, near Nonsuch Park in Surrey. Part of this 22 hectare site has been invaded by Canadian goldenrod, a distinctive bright yellow plant that out-competes our native...
A BIG THANK YOU to all my volunteers Hello! I’m Judith and I’m the new Volunteer Development Officer, covering South East region. My patch stretches from Hampshire across West and East Sussex to Kent, then up and along to Surrey and the London area, south of...
An ash tree dug up from our Hucking Estate in Kent now hangs at the Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate! It’s part of the exhibition ‘Journeys with the Waste Land’, and is hanging alongside classics by Edward Hopper, Paul Nash and a Turner!! This is part of...
Here at the Woodland Trust we are determined to continue the development of our volunteer experience. Our 764 volunteers, who completed the National Volunteers' Feedback Survey, are helping us do just that. We are happy to say that 89% of volunteers said they would recommend volunteering with...
Bluebell season is imminent - indeed they’ve already been poking their heads through the soil for a fair few weeks now – and this signals a return for the Heartwood ‘Save our Bluebells’ campaign (SOB). As with many of our sites, the ancient woodlands at...
It has been a busy winter in Spud Wood, Cheshire. The wood allotment group has been opening up some of the more densely planned areas to let in more light which also provides some wood fuel. Now at the end of the season the group...
This is our second season of working at Millennium Wood in Grappenhall. Our main task is to thin out the trees planted eighteen years ago, letting the sunlight flood in and encourage the remaining trees to flourish, also improving ground flora and creating wildlife habitats. All...