Below is a list of the first ten
groups to receive funding and an example of the sorts of things the money
was used for.
For a list of other groups who have benefited from our grants system please
click here
Dog Kennel Community Woodland
Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire
Funding for: first aid training, ATV training, chainsaw certification training, chainsaw safety equipment, chainsaw spares, bowsaws, rakes, axes, forks, mower, first aid kit, claw hammers.
Friends of Stoke Wood
Stoke Lyne, Oxfordshire
Funding for: large loppers, small bowsaw with greenwood blade, large bowsaw with greenwood blade, working gloves, safety glasses, safety helmets, tool bags, medium loppers, small bowsaw, secateurs, hedge/grass shears, saw blades, pruning saws, long hedge shears, nursery spade, hole-digging soil extractor, bill hook, long-handled slasher, broom, sharpening stone.
The Friends of Park Wood
Waterlooville, Hampshire
Funding for: chainsaw spares, high lift wedges, plastic wedges, breaking bar, chainsaws, rope for winches, fire-beater heads, polypropylene ropes, rigger gloves, sharpening kits, safety helmet, rope reeler, webbing slings, ear defenders, winch, shear pins, insurance, wet-weather suit.
Brookings Down Wood Management Committee
Noss Mayo, Devon
Funding for: tree safety work, first aid kit, insurance, woodland management publications, litter clearance, stakes and tree shelters, large loppers, small bowsaw with greenwood blade, large bowaw with greenwood blade, working gloves, safety helmets, extending pruning saws, brushcutter, brushcutter metal blade, safety helmet with visor, ear muff set, set of safety gloves, park pruning aluminium set, mattocks with shaft.
Norfolk & Suffolk Volunteers
Throughout Norfolk and Suffolk
Funding for: chainsaw trousers, chainsaw helmets, pairs of chainsaw gloves, hi-visability waistcoats, safety helmets, 21" bowsaws & 21" bow saw blades, oregon loppers, first aid kit, rigger gloves, hazard barrier tape, chainsaw.
Marden Park Group
Woldingham, Surrey
Funding for: first aid training, chainsaw course, insurance safety helmets, first aid kit, lug-all 25cl winch & sling, pack of tree felling warning signs.
Friends of Philipshill
Chorleywood, Buckinghamshire
Funding for: wild flower identification training, safety glasses, brushcutter, bowsaws, bowsaw blades, tool bags.
Lineover Wood Volunteers
Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire
Funding for: chainsaw training, brushcutter training, brushcutter servicing, leaflet production, helmets, safety braces, safety gloves, safety jackets, safety boots, work trousers, first aid kits, chainsaw.
Bramingham Wood Volunteers
Luton, Bedfordshire
Funding for: website creation, clearance equipment hire, wood trolley, ecological survey.
The Woodlanders
Various sites in Surrey
Funding for: extra-long felling lever, log tongs, lugall ratchet, ropes, slings, chainsaw safety equipment, hard hats, first aid kit, gloves & work boots, safety wellingtons, all-weather rain suits, tool bags, bowsaws & spare blades, pruning saws, fencing pliers, chainsaw spares, spades, rigger gloves & goggles, slings.
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Tidying up gale damage
The Woodlanders putting
their winding gear into
action
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