Hi all Hoping everyone is well and enjoying some sunshine! Welcome We have two new volunteers - Fire Patrollers Rak Patel and Tony Hemans. Welcome both! Volunteer Thank You event We would usually have held our annual volunteer thank you event during the first week of June. However, we want...
Hello all Welcome! We have some new members of the volunteer group this week – welcome to Joe Holt – joining both the Patrollers group and Wildlife Group Sue Fielding, Dawn Axon, Gillian Marsh, Babs Winder, Chris Speed, Stephen Tonge, Karen Mather, Dorothy Snelson, Stirling Smith and Linda Smith...
The Smithills Estate – a place for enterprise and community Smithills Estate, near Bolton, is the largest site the Trust has ever acquired in England. Steeped in history and overshadowed by the famous Winter Hill TV mast, it’s a mix of grassland, farmland, moorland, wooded ravines...
Lockdown has, of course, posed a huge variety of issues for everyone's planned work for 2020 - but at Smithills it's also allowed us to trial new ways of engaging existing audiences, and well as reaching new ones. From March, when it became clear we would...
Hello all Welcome Welcome to two new volunteers, Ella Standish and Katie Thompson, who have recently joined us, both as new members of the Wildlife Group. COVID restrictions It won’t have escaped your notice, I’m sure, that discussions are ongoing about Greater Manchester being put into Tier 3 restrictions....
(Photo from a pre-lockdown walk) The partnership programme between the Woodland Trust and City of Trees at Smithills, through which we run monthly dementia friendly walks, has been on hiatus since March. We have been keeping in touch with our walkers via newsletters and a WhatsApp...
I would like to take an opportunity to say a huge thank you to our volunteer team at Smithills for responding so brilliantly to the changes in what we could do over the last five months. Some groups of volunteers have worked from home when...
On Monday and Tuesday the whole Smithills team were busy turning the Estate into a film set! Over the two days we filmed footage in the woodlands, grassland and on the moor for three exciting projects: a short promotional film about Smithills, a longer information...