What a pleasant surprise to find I'd been out and about volunteering in the Woodland Trust Scotland Glen Finglas estate for ten years! I’ve spent lots of days at the site doing conservation work and meeting people and sometimes both - and still do. Compared...
Gwen Raes, Estate Ranger, and Hamish Thomson, Estate Manager, set up a wonderful day to kickstart the new visitor and event season for existing and new volunteers at Glen Finglas, our largest Woodland Trust estate in the UK. Volunteer roles there now include Woodland Engagement volunteers,...
Gwen Raes, Estate Ranger at Glen Finglas, the biggest site in the UK that the Woodland Trust owns, has shared these lovely thoughts with us: "The woods are waiting for you… Although close contact with people isn’t recommended right now, you can still enjoy a beautiful woodland...
I like to take a few minutes to thank a couple of volunteers for their contribution over the last couple weeks/months at Glen Finglas. Between Thursday 24th October and Saturday 26th October several volunteers from The Mountains and the People (Outdoor Access Trust for Scotland) were...
by Maggie McCallum Glen Finglas Woodland Engagement volunteer Recently I was struck by the connections among the different activities of WT volunteers when I met some lovely people at Glen Finglas. The couple I spoke with were considering different areas of woodland available within the beautiful estate for...
Over the last couple of months a team of volunteers from Glen Finglas' Woodland Working Group and the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park have turned out to tidy up an area through which the long-distance Great Trossachs Path passes. Originally the land had been a...
We are recruiting for two new roles at our stunning Glen Finglas estate. We are looking for Adopt a Path volunteers to help us keep an eye on our network of paths, some of which form part of the Great Trossachs Path which runs through to...
Last Friday, Gwen Raes, our Estate Ranger at Glen Finglas, held her annual end of season bash for her volunteers. Most are Woodland Engagement Volunteers, who are the welcoming face to the public of the Woodland Trust at our Gateway Visitor Centre, but there are other roles, such as...
Twenty three hardy volunteers made it through stormy weather to Glen Finglas on 3rd November for our last volunteer gathering in Scotland this year. The theme was Woodland Creation, and two of the delegates have kindly written descriptions of the day for us, so without further ado,...
Earlier this year Nicola Hume volunteered with us at Glen Finglas, the Woodland Trust's largest's estate in the UK, and which forms part of the dramatically beautiful Great Trossachs Forest National Nature Reserve that stretches from the shores of Loch Lomond in the west to Kilmahog,...