Why do you volunteer? Likely it is because you love the great outdoors and supporting the aims of the Woodland Trust. This goes without saying but there are lots of other benefits too, including making some great friends along the way and sampling some fantastic...
In 2018 a project began to restore approximately 4ha of lowland raised bog and wet woodland on Pestfurlong Moss which is part of Gorse Covert Mounds near Warrington. Pestfurlong Moss is a remnant of the lowland raised peat bogs (or mossland) that covered large parts...
Early February 2019, there was a busy day at The Woodland Trust’s Nunsbrough Wood, located just a few miles South of Hexham, Northumberland. The weather was very kind during the day as two groups of about 8 to 10 students and teachers from The Priory School...
Scotland volunteers are all welcome to come along to East Lothian on 4th May for our first gathering of the year! You'll find out more about how staff and volunteers monitor and protect woods under threat of development, as well as having the chance to meet other...
The cancelled Working Party on the 3rd was a very wise step. Even when the 4 inches of snow had gone the paths on the wood were still very slippery. It is interesting to note that we cancelled the same session last year. However the...
Bilton Conservation Volunteers have been hard at work down at Nidd Gorge, restoring and creaying boardwalks on the Bilton side of our site, near Knaresborough. The group have been creating a dedicated walkway along this notoriously wet section to avoid a network of worn paths ,...
Why not join us and shift the focus this Valentine's and #ShowTheLove for the trees and woods that are threatened by climate change. Trees and woods are facing changing seasons, new pests and diseases and more extreme weather because of climate change - but they're also a key part of the solution. Trees store carbon, keeping...
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,...