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....
Earlier in the summer a group of fairies with little decorated houses started to appear at the beautiful Sea Wood in the North West. The numbers grew over the summer and their associated paraphernalia to the point of 'littering' the woodland (depending on your viewpoint)...
It’s been over two years since the Northern Forest was announced and you may have been wondering how things are progressing...
For some, the global pandemic has really highlighted just how vital our green spaces are in this country for our health and mental wellbeing. Personally, being able to go on a walk a day with my dog during lockdown was one of the most important...
(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...
We would like to say a very large welcome to Tom Wright, who has recently joined us as our new North England Regional Fundraiser. Tom came into post just before lockdown, but has already been working hard looking at ways of funding and supporting the...