The other week Woodland Trust volunteers carried out their annual Hartest Wood tidy up and had a good turnout of enthusiasts. This year the volunteers concentrated on coppicing some more of the hazels and widened one of the boundary footpaths which was becoming a tangle...
The Woodland Trust has such a breadth of work, which makes it such a fantastic organisation to be a part of. An exciting project that has been running for a while is the Ancient Tree Inventory, which maps the oldest and most important trees in...
Hello all On Tuesday we had our first Supporters’ Group meeting of 2019. We had a packed room, including some of our new volunteers, and it was great to hear what the different groups have been up to, with updates on what the Wardens, Wildlife Group,...
The cost of cleaning up fly tipping from our woods has been increasing over the last five years and in 2018 the cost was £200,000 across the UK. Since 2014, the cost of fly tipping and litter clearance has been £1.1 million Our urban woods are...
Volunteers joined tutor Damon Peacock this weekend for an introduction to the techniques and skills of hedgelaying. Despite the occasional hail showers, volunteers from Friends of Spud Wood spent a fantastic couple of days at the Spud Wood site, getting to grips with the tools and...
Welcome to George Lewis, the brand new Visitor Experience Officer for both Heartwood and Hainault Forests. If George looks familiar this is because in his previous role he was a Membership Development Officer with the Woodland Trust and was often at Heartwood with his membership...
The partnerships team was proud to represent the Woodland Trust at this week’s Sustainability Leaders Forum (SLF) in London. The SLF is a major event for leaders in global sustainability and was attended by the likes of Unilever, Deloitte and GlaxoSmithKline among others. It provides an ideal...
Ants are the most numerous creatures on the planet and there are many millions of them living in Fingle Woods, but why is the species of red wood ant (Formica rufa) such an important part of our woodland ecosystem? These wood ants that build the...
It's always exciting when we hear of projects that use different methods to engage and inspire people to care for our woodlands and the environment. Recently is the turn of SE Super Campaigner volunteer, Daisy Buckle, who is part of the national network of volunteers...
Hello and Sh'mae everyone – particularly the fabulous volunteers of Wales. I’d like to introduce myself as your new Volunteer Development Officer for Wales – my name is Martha and I’m really looking forward to meeting as many of our volunteers as possible, preferably out and...