|
Community Woodland
Network
NEWSLETTER - Spring 2004 |
 |
Please add your name to our e-mail list to receive this newsletter - click
here.
|
Welcome to the Spring Edition of the
Community Woodland Network Newsletter.
I do hope you all had a good Easter with lots of eggs playing a
big part, either rolling or eating, whichever you prefer! Spring is
certainly now in the air with the expanse of blossom, cutting the
grass again and a great deal of animals having other things on their
minds than just finding food! Why not record spring in your wood
either with images or in a diary format that we can use as a feature
for the Summer Newsletter? I look forward to hearing from you all. |
|
Issue 3
|
News from the project
Roadshows -
If you have already attended one of the roadshows it was great to see
you. However if you haven't managed to make it so far this year
there is still one event to go - details below - there are
still a few places available so please do join us.
Saturday 12 June – Owley Wood in Weaverham
Click on the above to see the event details and agenda. To book your
place call Christina on 01476 581155 or
e-mail
We had a very successful roadshow on Saturday 24 April in the West
Midlands, hosted by the Pepper Wood Community Group. To read more
click here
Group Websites -
At last the long awaited group web pages have been built and are
ready to roll. Those of you who already have group leader powers now
have a new button allowing you to build your group website. We held
or are planning a demonstration of how these work at the three
regional roadshows.
To visit a site that has already been set up –
click here
2004/05 Grants -
1st April started the next round of grant awards to promote
group sustainability. We again have a total fund of £40K to award to
successful applicants.
Application forms and application criteria are available via the
website or by calling Christina
on 01476 581155.
We successfully funded over 20 groups last year, allowing them to
train members, replace tools, purchase more specialised equipment
and recruit more members. Don’t delay. The closing date for
applications is 30th June 2004. |
|
April, May & June 2004
Oakley Woodlands
Group Website
Money Money Money !!! |
|
|
Lineover Volunteer Group
Tools bought with grant funding
by Friends of Batchwood |
|
|
News from the Woodland Trust
Conservation Land Trust
A new initiative from the Trust. This has been setup to provide two
distinct services for current and future owners of these cherished
sites.
- Do you own UK woodland (or related habitat) that you care deeply
about?
- Do you wish to safeguard this land for nature conservation for
the future?
- Are you unsure about how best this can be achieved?
- Would you like to acquire woodland to look after for the benefit
of nature conservation ?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then this site is
well worth a visit
click here
Discovery Section
Welcome to the Woodland Trust's pages of discovery. If you are a
child, a parent, a teacher or work with children in any other
capacity – this area has been designed just for you.
We would love you to be as inspired as we are about trees and
woodland. To help you find the resources, activities and projects
that interest you most.
To read more
click here.
Taking Phenology to Children
Nature Detectives is a new project involving children in
phenology recording.
This climate change research is part of this years ‘National Science
Week’.
There is a website dedicated to this initiative. To find out more
click here
|
|
Conservation Land Trust
Discovery Pages
Nature Detectives |
Appeal from the Woodland Trust!!!
Help Us Promote Woodland
We’re currently working on a major campaign to encourage greater
awareness and enjoyment of UK woodland. We won’t be launching the
new campaign until September 2004 but we are developing a series of
news stories to encourage the media to promote the beauty of
woodland.
Our first initiative, the UK’s worst picnic spots will highlight how
the art of picnicking is being lost and how we’re missing out on
that most traditional of summer pastimes, a fun, family picnic in
beautiful native woodland.
To support the story we’ll be working with a national survey company
to help us show that whilst we’re still grabbing lunch on the go,
it’s more likely to be a service station plastic package or a drive
through hamburger than a sociable picnic in the great outdoors.
We’ll also look at how many of us opt for less than inspiring picnic
spots – the car park, the lay-by, the back seat of the bus rather
than take just a few minutes walk/drive to discover a beautiful
woodland glade. We’ll also be asking how many of us own picnic
hampers, lunchboxes and blankets that never see the light of day,
all of which gives us the perfect platform to promote native
woodland as the perfect picnic spot for lazy summer days.
We need YOU!
We need your help to build the story by naming and shaming the worst
picnic sites in your area. We want to hear from as many people as
possible so do please get your friends and family involved too.
We need to identify all those places where people are eating out but
that don’t do justice to the spirit of the Great British picnic.
We’re looking for the dingy lay-by, the grotty bit of grass behind
the leisure centre, the country park car park. It doesn’t have to be
an official picnic site but it does need to be a place where people
regularly eat outdoors. Even better, if people are actually making
an effort to travel to a site that really isn’t worth the trip then
that could present an even better argument for trying a designated
woodland site instead!
Please include as much information as possible about the site, how
many people eat there and why. To get media interested in the story,
it’s important that we find those sites that represent the most
dramatic comparison possible with the beautiful woodland sites just
a stone’s throw (or a short trip) away.
And of course we’d also like you to recommend the BEST designated
woodland picnic alternatives in your area.
If you can help, please email the following information to:
media@woodland-trust.org.uk
- Your nearest town
- The worst picnic site in your area (you can include as many as
you can think of)
- Description of site
- Location of site
- What’s nasty about it
.. And the best WOODLAND picnic sites in your area.
- Description of site
- Location of site
- What’s lovely about it
Please include any other information here if you think it
would add extra interest for local media and encourage others to
try a woodland picnic this summer.
Thanks for your help – and we’ll keep you posted on how it goes! |
|
Woodland Picnic Area
Roadside Picnic Area
|
|
Other Events
The Tree
Council’s – Walk in the Woods Campaign throughout the month
of May.
-
To find out more general
information about the campaign – or register an event –
click here
-
To find out more about CWN
members who are supporting this campaign –
click here
-
For a complete events list –
click here
The Small
Woods Association – National Conference being held in Wales
on 5 June.
National Urban
Forestry Unit &
Red Rose
Forests –
Community Based Urban Greening Conference being held at The Lowry in
Salford on Friday 11 June.
-
For general information about NUFU –
click here
-
For general information about Red Rose Forest –
click
here
-
For more information or to book for the event –
click here
APF 2004 – International Forest Machinery
Exhibition -
The UK’s largest forestry and woodland exhibition, from 23-25
September at the Ragley Estate, Alcester, Warwickshire.
A Permaculture Woodland Gathering –
Being held at Hill Holt Wood, Norton Disney, Lincolnshire on 4, 5 &
6 June 2004.
A forum of networking, debate and learning for
those interested in the future of our woodlands. A showcase of the
best examples in sustainable woodland management.
- For further information and booking details –
click
here
|
|
The
Tree Council
Small Woods Association
Conference booking form
APF Show
“Our Future
must be to try to find ways to manage woodlands sustainably, where all
species, including ourselves, fulfil their needs from the woodlands without
subsidies. "Ben Law, in “The Woodland Way”
|
|
|
Publications & Website News
Conserving veteran and ancient trees
National Urban Forestry Unit, Case Study 41. Looks at the
community campaign in Wolverhampton to save the Tettenhall Lime, a
hollow tree, in danger of being felled because it was seen as a
threat to local people. With support from the community and expert
help from the Ancient Tree Forum and English Nature, the tree was
identified as an important living landmark, more than 300 years old,
rich in wildlife, of little or no threat to public safety and with a
good life expectancy. It has now been entered on the national
register of ancient trees.
Click
here or telephone Mark Dixon on 01902 828600.
BioRegional
A new website
www.bioregional.com has been launched. This includes extensive
project information, news and tips on how we can:
"live on one planet".
Tel: 020 8404 4881.
Guidance on Managing Unauthorised Camping
Managing Unauthorised Camping: A Good Practice Guide – first
issued by DETR and the Home Office in 1998, it influenced the
approaches adopted by local authorities, police and others. It has
been revised to take into account changes in laws and policies. For
the background to the guidance -
click here
Effective Fundraising, An informal guide to getting donations and
grants.
Directory of Social Change publication based on their
fundraising courses. £9.95 plus p&p, order via the website –
click here
Outcome Funding
Funders are increasingly looking for proof that the monies they
provide are making a difference within the criteria they have set.
DSC have produced a briefing document which is a brief guide and
gives references for further reading –
click here
|
|
www.nufu.org.uk
www.bioregional.com
New good practice guide
Charity Exchange Website |
Sign Off
Well that’s it for this edition. Now that the writing and producing
is slightly easier I was wondering if you had any suggestions for
new topic areas, the style of the newsletter or the content i.e. too
much, too little or not enough, or any other comments.
Don’t forget the new round of grant funding!
And
The forthcoming roadshows – it would be great to see you there.
Also the deadline for submitting news and articles for the next
issue is 1 July 2004. These can go straight to Christina. Let us
know if you have had a successful grant bid, held an event or
received any recognition or award. It would be good to let the other
member know of your successes.
Regards
The CWN Team
PS: You can now buy Native Trees online at the Trust’s new Native
Tree Shop. For more information –
click here |
|
|
|
|
|
