Thank you to our brilliant team of eleven volunteers who turned out in the sunshine on Saturday morning to clear more tree guards and barbed wire. Thanks to your hard work, several hundred young trees - many of them oaks - have been liberated from their plastic and fibreglass tourniquets. Local wildlife (and passing dogs!) can now roam hundreds of metres more without the risk of entanglement or injury.

A huge thank you as well to our members and local walkers who answered the call to pick up glass and ceramic fragments along the new footpath surface. It might feel like meticulous, tedious work, but you’ve done an outstanding job - several thousand pieces have now been safely removed.

And finally, we are ever-grateful to the eagle-eyed Friends who carry a pair of secateurs with them, snipping away at encroaching brambles to keep the paths clear between strims.

None of these tasks is particularly glamorous, but every single one of these micro-actions makes a massive difference to the health, safety, and beauty of the woods. Proof of what a great community can do together!

A fantastic haul for our first volunteer event in the woods - over 200 plastic tree guards and 200m of barbed wire cleared from the southwest corner of the woods. A big thank you to the dozen volunteers who braved the brambles to cut the 30yr old plastic tree guards from the trees and to snip off and roll up the 50yr old barbed wire from the trees, posts and undergrowth.