If you are a member of a club, society or other organisation and you
arrange talks and presentations for your group why not consider an
illustrated talk by a Woodland Trust volunteer speaker and let them
take you on a voyage of discovery through woodlands all over the UK.
We have an excellent group of volunteer speakers willing to give
illustrated talks about our work to a wide variety of audiences.
What
are the talks about?
Talks given by our enthusiastic and experienced speakers take the
form of a 40 - 45 minute projection presentation and are usually
followed by a session for questions and answers. These interesting
and informative talks will include images from some of our beautiful
woodland sites and speakers also bring along a selection of
information leaflets for group members to take away.
Our speakers will soon be able to offer a diverse range of woodland
talks. At present there are two key talks available and here’s a
flavour of what each covers.
Keeping Woodland Alive – the work of the Woodland Trust
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An introduction to the Woodland trust
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Why does woodland matter?
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What is broadleaved woodland and what is ancient woodland?
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Management techniques (pollarding, coppicing etc)
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Key threats to ancient woodland
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Keeping Woodland Alive - our plan of action
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Preventing further loss of ancient woodland
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Restoring and improving woodland biodiversity
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Creating new native woodland
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Woodland acquisitions
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Our campaigns
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How people can get involved
Ancient Tree Hunt
- Keeping Woodland Alive the Woodland Trust and its main
objectives
- What is an ancient tree?
- Why are ancient trees important?
- What are the threats to ancient trees?
- How can we protect ancient trees?
- The Ancient Tree Hunt
- How to measure and record ancient trees
- Learning resources
I’d like to arrange a talk – what facilities do
I need?
To accommodate a talk you will need the following:
- A venue large enough to comfortably accommodate both your
audience and a speaker with projection equipment
- A projection screen or plain white wall on which to project
- Tables for leaflets and for a projector
- Black-out facilities if your talk is to be held during
daylight hours
- Adequate time needs to be available on the day of the talk.
The presentations generally last for around 40 - 45 minutes and
cannot usually be altered in length.
Our speakers can accommodate audiences of up to 100+ people.
There is no set fee for a talk, but we ask that you are willing to
cover the cost of our volunteers' travel expenses and consider
making a donation to the Trust of roughly £1 per audience head –
minimum £25 to cover administration costs.
** Please allow plenty of time for booking your talk. As a ‘minimum’
the date of your talk should not be less than two weeks from the
date of your request **
Request a talk
If you have a love of woodland and wildlife, and think your group
or organisation may be interested to hear about our conservation
work, why not go ahead and request a talk. It’s easy!
Request a speaker online -
request form
If you have the details of your requirements ready you can request a
speaker straight away using our
online request form. Please specify on the form which talk
you are interested in.
Call us
You can also telephone our Volunteer Speaker line on 08452 935 752
quoting the name of your group, the date and time the talk is
required and the location where the talk is to be held.
Once you have completed our online request form or contacted us by
telephone your details and requirements will be matched with a
speaker in your locality who will be in contact with you to confirm
their availability.
Please allow at least 10 working days for a response to a speaker
request.
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