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Jack Wood 6th June 2026 The weather had other plans for us this week. After spending our previous session in Hotel Field raking up the grass left after mowing, we had intended to return and continue the work. However, the heavy downpours throughout the week left the cut grass soggy, heavy, and difficult to move. Fortunately, there is never a shortage of conservation tasks in the woodlands for our dedicated volunteers, so we adapted our plans and headed back into Jack Wood ins

Oxleas Wood April 2026 From the coppicing training session in October through to the start of the bird nesting season in spring, this has been one of our most popular conservation activities. A total of 8 sessions took place, in addition to the initial training session, plus three special volunteering days with Barclays. A fantastic 660 recorded hours were spent on the project and we were also fortunate to receive many additional hours of support from dedicated volunteers wh

Hotel Field - Meadow Restoration Friday, 15th May 2026 A picture of a long-gone rural past? Well almost - if you can ignore the hi-vis vests! If you had been passing through Hotel Field on Friday morning, you would have spotted our 19 volunteers dotted around the area, cutting, raking and wheeling barrows. The field had recently received its early mow and the buttercups, jacob’s ladder, cleavers and many more species were already pushing up through the grass, which is both

Shepherdleas Wood - The Glade Tuesday, 26th May 2026 Tuesday’s woodland conservation session fell within the recent May heatwave and it was hot, hot, hot! We rarely cancel sessions unless there is a real danger to our volunteers, and we leave the decision to individuals as to whether they wish to attend or not – and guess what? Six determined volunteers braved the heat and got down to work. Before the usual health and safety introduction, volunteers were reminded to make s

Shepherdleas Wood - Pathways and Ditches 28th April 2026 For many years, an area on the Green Chain Walk, close to the Falconwood entrance to Shepherdleas has been impassable in the winter. Rainwater overflowed the collapsed bridge and ditch and flooded the path. For the last three years we have carried out activities to improve this: we have cleared the drain, replaced the bridge edges, inserted a drainpipe, cleared the ditch, built a small dam, cleared mulch from the path

Tree Laying in Shepherdleas Wood Tuesday, 24th February 2026 What a beautiful day, Tuesday turned out to be. The temperatures were higher, the sun was shining and there was a definite feel of spring in the air - with trees budding, birds chirping and wildflowers emerging. We had seven volunteers, two of whom were new to the session - and very much welcome, of course. Introductions were made, instructions given on activities and a demonstrations of techniques was provided f

FOWs response to the Royal Borough of Greenwich's draft Local Plan consultation.

Friday, 14th November - Cancelled Jack Wood - Wildflower Area - Lower Path Having carried out our first autumn session in this beautiful woodland area on the edge of Oxleas Meadow, we were looking forward to a second session to finish clearing the holly stand, before moving on. But…the weather had different ideas! If there is one thing you can say about our weather, it is changeable from day to day, and as the week went by, it looked more and more likely that we were going t

About half of the coppicing team spent the morning of Saturday 25th in Oxleas Wood improving our knowledge and skills in coppicing.

It's been a few years since we’ve done much coppicing in Oxleas wood, and far far longer since there’s been a consistent rotation of coppicing across the wood. We believe that coppicing will improve the biodiversity of the area, but we’d like to check and be sure. We’ve done a little survey work on the coupe, and what we can find there in late September.

We had to cancel our first coppicing session because of storm Amy. Learn why we did this.

April 2025 Jack Wood Stage 1 Woodland Condition Self-Assessment Completed! What a fabulous start we’ve made to assessing the condition...

April is Citizen Science Month. Our volunteers have been walking very slowly around an area, peering closely at the canopy, then peering even more closely at the woodland floor. This is Citizen Science in action with the start of our Woodland Condition Self-Assessment programme!

Invasive Species Have you seen our Woodland Conservation Groups in Oxleas Woodlands? Those of you who get out and about in Oxleas...

Today, 20th March 2025, is World Frog Day And look what we found in our large pond today - a reason to celebrate. Following the...