This year seems to have flown by, but the Friends of Woodlands have been busy as normal, maintaining the site, clearing it of litter and rubbish to the best of our abilities, as fast as we do it, it is there again.
With the help and expertise of our Chairman we have been fortunate to have obtained grants to complete the Wildlife Discovery Site, and by the time you read this newsletter it should have been completed. We have had problems on the way, quite a bit of vandalism, extremely wet weather and long delivery on materials and equipment, but we have not been deterred.
We have erected fencing, planted 8 specimen standard trees, spread flower seeds throughout the site, not sure if the wet weather will affect germination of the seed, cleared the excessive reed growth out of the pond, and installed 2 new benches. Now the area is complete.
Men in Sheds a voluntary organisation in Worksop have been busy making us bat, bird boxes and feeding stations all to be erected in the New Year in readiness for the breeding season. We had a highly successful turnout of volunteers’ adults and children to help plant the hedging around the site and school children from Haggonfields School came to site to plant tree saplings, all the saplings, not disturbed, appear to be growing well. As you have no doubt seen new gates have been installed at the entrance of the site and we have installed sign boards. We think a worthwhile project for all to enjoy, we hope that friends and families will come along use it to sit and observe the wildlife and its surroundings. We now need to improve the biodiversity. For this we will be looking to volunteers building log piles, rubble piles, planting reeds, and improving the pond edges.
The next venture which was fully detailed in the last issue of the newsletter is on Coach Wood Green {formerly the pony field} where we have been selected for the Trees for Climate programme led by England’s Community Forests and Greenwood Community Forest. We feel it is an honour for Shireoaks to be chosen for this prestigious project and The Friends of Woodlands and Coachwood Green are happy to support this to develop more woodlands and open green space for the community to enjoy.
The project hosted by Nottinghamshire County Council who are delivering the programme across the county, more information can be found: https://www.greenwoodforest.org.uk/helping-greenwood-to-grow/grow-your-roots
We expect this project to commence at the end of November if you would like to be part of these projects as an individual, family, community group please contact us.
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