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, 10 February 2012

Woodland Walk

As usual the masters of the camp-fire Gary and Graham had made sure that the rest of us arrived to a roaring fire. They also had some lovely news about some busy winter activity that had been going on inside our 'tree bog'.


We don't know if it is a mouse or a dormouse but whoever it is we rather liked it and of course left it undisturbed.

Due to the weather being uncertain today we had a shortened day. So after our cuppa we headed out into the woods for a walk. We work such a small area of woodland in comparison to the actual 35 acres it covers! We were soon noticing the tell tale signs of deer having been on the same trail very recently. The snow covering the ground made this easier as the little brown deposits showed up much more! Our tracking paid off dividends though when quite by accident we spotted 3 roe deer dart out from some trees and across a field in front of us. Evidently they spotted us too! so although a brief glimpse it was nonetheless beautiful. We carried on our walk but didn't manage to see them again.

Back at the campfire we had some lunch and a chat about our up-coming schedule at Coopers Mill.
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