The Worcestershire Woodland Project (WWP) offers participants an opportunity to experience working in an outdoor woodland setting, learning new skills, building social skills and raising levels of confidence. The project aims to equip participants with vocational skills to use in the workplace whilst also involving people in conservation work and improving levels of physical and mental health and wellbeing through the use of social forestry. Activities range from coppicing, weaving fences, pole lathe wood turning, cooking on camp fires to walking through the woodland learning the history and dynamics of the woodland environment. Our base camp is in Churchill Wood, Spetchley. Materials are sourced from the wood itself.







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Friday, 24 February 2012

Coopers Mill continued........

It was all hands on deck and full production mode today with all of the WWP gang getting stuck into continuing our fencing project for Natural England . We were joined today by Mark the new Occupational Therapist from Shrub Hill Workshop. He wanted to come and experience what it was like to be a part of the WWP so that he can know what he is recommending to his clients. I knew by the end of the day he'd be busy planning how he'd be able to get out and work with us again! Such is the addictive effect of the WWP. Anyway, Mark agreed that the satisfaction of the work involved along with the beautiful setting and of course, wonderful company, makes for an extremely therapeutic environment.



So order of the day was some hole digging, which the able and willing Dan and Ian set to work on. Graham and Gary got back to work on the fence they started on Wednesday. Mark found a home on the shave horse and Mike and me.....well we put the kettle on and milled about a bit.

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