The Woodland Trust and Natural Inclusion are working together on a project to involve blind and partially-sighted people as tour guides in the historic Skipton Castle Woods. Skipton Castle Woods, owned by Skipton Castle and managed by The Woodland Trust, the UK’s largest tree conservation charity,...
What a fantastic result. D and A landscapes have completed the revetment restoration on Ellerbeck. What a difference! We were able to fund this work because of a grant we applied for and received from Yorventure; a landfill tax fund. We were the last organisation...
Last Saturday saw the planting of a fantastic 2000 trees at Shaw Cross, near Wakefield. An enormous thank you to volunteer Roger Parkinson for organising such a fabulously successful day, as well as a thank you to all the volunteers who came out to support him. Despite...
Would you like to come and spend the day at the picturesque Scalber Wood, home of Scalber Force Water Fall for a days tree planting? Working with Site Manager Alec Pue,s we will be looking to plant 800 trees at this lovely site near Settle No experience...
Hello all Well, we are just about recovering from our tree planting weeks! Thank you to EVERYONE who came along throughout the fortnight and helped our visiting groups to get trees planted. We’ve had brilliant feedback from everyone who came along. The mass tree planting on...
Hello all Hope you have had a good week. Updates since last week… Volunteer hours Total hours for the year so far is 4766.75. If you’re interested in each group here’s the totals: Woodland Working Group (task days etc) 1068.25 hours Events Volunteering 458.75 History Group 261.75 Practical Group Leaders 79 Education Volunteering ...
Back in the 1980’s Storeton Woods in Bebington near Liverpool on the Wirral was used for motorbike scrambling and hosting “war games” with permission of the previous owner of the woods who charged for these activities. This constant noise, pollution, disturbance and damage to the...
What a fantastic weekend! We knew we were going to enjoy our coppicing training, but didn’t realise quite how much. Our Volunteer Team works in two Lincolnshire woods, Sibsey Wood and Skellingthorpe Old Wood. In October we were joined by our lovely trainers: Tom and...
At the centre of the National Lottery Heritage Funded project at Smithills Estate is community work. How do we engage Bolton's communities with the site? Why are some communities not engaging with the site? And how do we open up the wellbeing value of our...
Hello all A brief update this week… Welcome Welcome to Jo Rayner (Woodland Working Group / Events Volunteer) and to Louise Coulman (Woodland Working Group)! Tree planting Thanks to everyone from Smithills who has volunteered to help out with the tree planting weeks! Lantern Parade Thanks to all the volunteers who helped the...