It would be easy, when running a community project largely based outdoors, to feel downhearted when all outdoor activities are postponed. However - team Smithills (staff and volunteers) are a determined bunch! Over the last week, we have been looking at ways to keep our volunteers...
The Young People’s Forest is an excellent project for conserving native tree species, including oak, cherry and silver birch trees. Volunteering for The Woodland Trust has taught me how important it is to plant native tree species at the Mead site, including the silver birch...
The Northern Forest has been a priority for the Woodland Trust now for 2 seasons with huge targets to hit via our MOREwoods projects. As of last week, the number of trees planted within the Northern Forest through MOREwoods was 103,000 trees – An unbelievably...
Hello all Starting this week’s update with some information on current guidance around coronavirus and how this affects volunteering: Government guidance The government has asked that anyone with the following symptoms: Fever New, continuous cough stays at home for 7 days. If this affects you, please follow the guidance...
New Moss Wood project to enhance biodiversity and visitor experience Work is underway at New Moss Wood near Salford to deliver approximately £100K of biodiversity and visitor improvements with funding from Enovert Landfill, Salford City Council and Carbon Landscape HLF. New Moss Wood is located on...
Hello all Welcome Welcome to John Shannon, Darran Hamilton and Diane Berg Oliveira! Hope you enjoy your time volunteering with us. Smithills Volunteer Awards At the SSG meeting we had our very first volunteer awards. We had asked you all to come up with nominations for the awards, and...
The hardworking volunteers from the Spud Wood woodland working group have been busy throughout the winter months coppicing hazel and laying an old thorn hedge that runs through the site. A dedicated band of them, led by volunteer leader Nick Storer, have been working most...
Thanks to all of our Nidd Gorge practical volunteers who braved the weather last week to help undertake footpath improvements at the site. The group, led by Sam Walker from Harrogate Borough Council, managed to dodge the worst of the weather. However it was muddy...
The Smithills team wanted to say a big thank you to Ruth Hyde who has made the first donations to our Smithills Community Kit Library, donating countless jumpers, wellies and other bits of kit. Part of our Lottery funding includes commitments to work with community...
For a number of years The Woodland Trust has been working in partnership with Yorkshire Water and the National Trust to develop proposals for woodland creation on land owned by the partners across West Yorkshire under the auspices of The White Rose Forest’s Landscapes for...