Case studies

Here are a few of our recent plantings that show just how much fun can be had with a spade, a sapling and a tube. All of them benefited from MOREwoods.

We would really appreciate receiving your photos throughout the life cycle of your woodland,whatever the time of year.

You can send your photos to woodlandcreation@woodlandtrust.org.uk

 

Sarah Walters near Alresford, Hampshire:
500 trees planted with help from family and IKEA staff volunteers from their Southampton store.

“The MOREwoods project has transformed our field and will give us such pleasure watching the trees grow, and provide a wonderful habitat for the local wildlife”

SarahWalters

 

 

Chris Lane at Baldersdale, County Durham:
1,000 trees planted in partnership with the North Pennines AONB.

“I wanted to bring trees back to this landscape, both for aesthetics and for wildlife value, and am really pleased with the results”

Chris Lane


 

 

Edale Activity Centre, Derbyshire:
750 trees planted by volunteers from the activity centre and local schools.

“We have numerous bird and bat boxes, swathes of bracken-cleared moorland and mini-creature habitats, and now our very own mini-forest to manage and maintain”

NickWillis, Chief Instructor

 

 

Mary Swale and Peter Kellaway, neighbours at Bentham, Lancaster:
800 trees planted with the help of friends and family.

“It’s been great fun to plant to trees and really satisfying to create a woodland which we can enjoy in the future”

Mary Swale

 

 

David and Ann Jenkins in partnership with the Motor Industries Research Association at Higham on the Hill, Warwickshire:
Planting 1,500 trees using community volunteers and MIRA staff on land owned by MIRA.

“I thought MOREwoods would be the perfect opportunity to bring together residents and our neighbour MIRA on a worthwhile project to improve the landscape and create a valuable habitat for wildlife”

Ann Jenkins

 
Lyn Fisk near Ashreigney, Devon:
1,000 trees planted with friends and family to create Mark’s Memorial Woodland in memory of her husband.

“We organised planting over a weekend and over 300 of Mark's family, friends and colleagues came along. It is a beautiful place, and it will be a place where all Mark’s friends and family can come to remember him”

Lyn Fisk

 

Email your photos to woodlandcreation@woodlandtrust.org.uk

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