Leaves and bracken crackling underfoot as you follow the wildlife ranger off the path into the forest through the trees. Sssh! You stop and listen and there you see a…
Whether it is elegant birds or prey, cute dormice, slithering snakes or red squirrels you like to see there are conservation projects to protect all types of forest wildlife. You could find yourself creating suitable habitat, conducting surveys or monitoring rare species of beetle or butterfly so volunteer for a conservation project near you.
Buckinghamshire - Wendover
Colin Bradley
07778025144
colin.bradley@forestry.gov.uk
Cumbria
Winlatter - Sally Burchall 017687 78613 sally.burchall@forestry.gsi.gov.uk www.forestry.gov.uk/whinlatter
Grizedale - Tania Crockett 01229 862023
tania.crockett@forestry.gsi.gov.uk www.forestry.gov.uk/grizedale
Ennerdale - Gareth Browning 017687 76816
gareth.browning@forestry.gov.ukwww.wildennerdale.co.uk/volunteering.html
East Sussex
Friston - Ian Hartle South Downs National Park
ian.hartle@southdowns.gov.uk
Tilgate/Abbots Wood - Pete Crawford Sussex Wildlife Trust 01293 550730 www.sussexwt.org.uk/community
Gloucestershire
Queens Wood/Dymock Wood
Kate Wollen 01594 833057 dean@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
Westonbirt - Cheryl Pearson cheryl.pearson@forestry.gov.uk www.fowa.org.uk
Forest of Dean
Lorne Campbell/Kate Wollen 01594 833057 info@deangreenteam www.deangreenteam.co.uk
Hampshire
Alice Holt Forest - Julian Williams 01420 23666 julian.williams@forestry.gov.uk www.forestry.gov.uk/aliceholt
New Forest - Alexis Reeve 023 8028 6840 alexis.reeve@forestry.gov.uk
Herefordshire - Haugh Woods
Kate Wollen 01594 833057 dean@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
London - Thames Chase
http://www.thameschase.org.uk/ enquiries@thameschase.org.uk
Telephone: 01708 641880/642970
Northumberland - Kielder
Northumberland Wildlife Trust 01912 846884 mail@northwt.org.uk
Nottinghamshire - Sherwood
Find out more at www.forestry.gov.uk/eastmidlandsvolunteering
Norfolk - Thetford
Anne Mason Friends of Thetford Forest Park 01760 755685
anne@providence28.fsnet.co.uk www.fotfp.org.uk
South Yorkshire
Find out more at www.forestry.gov.uk/southyorkshirevolunteering
Somerset Neroche
Neroche Scheme 01823 680846 info@nerochescheme.org
Tyne & Wear Chopwell
Carole Friends of Chopwell Wood 01207 542495
M 07761 452440 caroleinthewoods@live.co.uk
West Sussex - St.Leonards
Friends of St.Leonards 01403 731885 fofslf@aol.com www.friendsofstleonardsforest
Pete Crawford Sussex Wildlife Trust 01293 550730
Yorkshire
Friends of Dalby Forest – www.friendsofdalbyforest.org.uk
Friends of Guisborough Forest and Walkway- www.fogfw.org
Friends of Hagg Wood – www.fohw.org.uk
Forestry Commission Ranger – Cath Bashforth- 07876 546592 cath.bashforth@forestry.gsi.gov.uk