Approximately £26,000 of funded access work has just been competed at Sandybrook, Preston. Sandybrook is one of a cluster of 8 Woodland Trust sites in the city of Preston which has a population of approx. one hundred and thirty thousand people. The work is part of...
Hello everyone! Just a quick message to say thank you to all of you for making the tree planting day such a success… Rob B, Phil C, Hanifah, Sue, Doug, George, Margaret, Jack, Tony and Richard for working with Mark, Andy & Richard to make tree...
Philipshill Wood, on the boundary of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, is fairly representative of our woodland estate in the Chilterns: a small-ish site with many constraints for planning a harvesting operation. It's a PAWS site - Plantations on Ancient Woodland Site - which means some of...
On 2nd March 33 volunteers made the journey over to Lambourne End, Essex to take part in the first volunteer network event of 2019. The majority of volunteers attending the event were from woodland working groups based in Abbey Grove, Tring Park, Hill House Wood,...
Are you a member of one of our Woodland Working Groups? Want to find out more about management techniques to assist with your volunteering? The Forestry Commission are offering a FREE workshop on Thursday 28th March, 2019 from 10:30am - 3:30pm at Sanderstead's Sports and...
I am very lucky. I look out of my living room window into an ancient woodland. It is a relatively small stand of around 4 hectares but has a wide variety of species, mainly broadleaf, but also a handful of old Scots Pine trees, tall...
Langley Vale Wood is one of our largest sites in the South East and it has been exciting to see the project develop, though not without its challenges. Simon Bateman-Brown, Site Manager, kindly took the time recently to provide an update on the latest goings...
For 2019, Smithills is continuing to expand the team and range of engagement offers to local communities. 2019 is promising to be another huge year for the project, so let's start off with the new member of the team. New Ranger Andy Thorn is our newest member of...
Our small but perfectly formed heritage research volunteer team in the South East recently got together with their Volunteer Manager and SE Outreach Advisor, Jim Smith-Wright, for a day celebrating their achievements and to talk about future developments in their projects. Enjoying a morning at the...
First thanks to all of you who turned out on 2nd of March when I was away and to Bev and Jay for the photos and filling in the details of your excellent work. Eight of you Bev, Brian, Chris and John Hunt, Richard, George,...