Site manager Chris Williams, was joined last week by Elyse White, a member of the Young People's Forest Youth Forum and also a second year student at Nottingham Trent University to assist with and learn about tree safety and tree pests and diseases. She later...
There's lots going on at the Young People's Forest at Mead this summer starting off with a series of Woodland Workshops for 11 -14 year olds. Themes cover, nature and art, forest food webs and animal homes, these will run for 5 days over the...
After returning from Furlough, we wanted to deliver a safe, socially distanced event during the school holidays, to reinvigorate the project, welcome folk to discover the site and for us to shout about the opportunities for young people and the local community to get involved....
Coming up at the end of August we have a great new event taking place at the Young People's Forest, Mead. With all the recent restictions it's been a while since we have been able to hold any events so we are looking forward to...
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...
Come and join us this winter for tree planting at the new Young People's Forest at Mead, as part of the #iwill campaign to promote youth social action. Help us plant the first trees on the former opencast site adjacent to Shipley County Park in...
On the 10th May we gathered for our launch event at Mead in Derbyshire, the UK’s first Young People’s Forest. This new 162ha site is a former open cast coal mine, similar in many respects to QEDJW in Leicestershire. However this new acquisition has the added...
Activity is moving forward this spring to develop our activity at our exciting new project based at Mead, in Derbyshire. Our Young Peoples Forest project has recruited its first staff, with a Youth development manager set to start in post this month and a new...