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Living Woods CIC

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Dedicated to the creation and sustainable management of woodland by supporting and empowering local people to create and care for woodlands in and around their communities. Join us, volunteer with us. living-woods.org.uk

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Small Woodland Owners' Group @swog1.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A new SWOG book review: Trees of Britain and Ireland by Jon Stokes. An excellent resource for woodland owners and tree enthusiasts 🌳 www.swog.org.uk/news/books-t... #treeID #woodlandwildlife @princetonupress.bsky.social @thetreecouncil.bsky.social
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
They may be cute, but grey squirrels are an invasive species and a great threat to woodland. We're here to help you deal with the problem. Come along to learn more next Weds living-woods.org.uk/news/how-to-...
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How to deal with grey squirrels - Living Woods
How to deal with grey squirrels if you are managing woodland or working in woodland..join us to learn more
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Our volunteers have been busy in action...https://living-woods.org.uk/news/the-living-woods-team-in-action/
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
How to deal with grey squirrels...a growing threat to woodland management living-woods.org.uk/news/how-to-...
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How to deal with grey squirrels - Living Woods
How to deal with grey squirrels if you are managing woodland or working in woodland..join us to learn more
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Time to come tree planting with us again! All details here..we would love to see you! living-woods.org.uk/news/time-fo...
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Time for tree planting again! - Living Woods
We are going to be out and about tree planting again at the end of this month and we would love you to join us. The first event is at Rising Sun Country Park where we aim  to extend a small woodland, ...
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Come and plant some trees with us www.eventbrite.com/e/community-...
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Community Tree Planting at Alexander Scott Park
Come and join us and plant trees in Alexander Park to create a small woodland, improving the area for wildlife and biodiversity.
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Welcome to all our new followers😊. We create and care for woodland, and we love to talk about trees. Well, we talk TO the trees as well😉
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Wood for the Trees UK @woodforthetreesuk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
What's the future for UK #woodlands and #forests? Everyone's talking about #treeplanting, but there is lot to consider: What do we plant? Where? Why? Who pays? How is it managed? In our short films we interview experts to provide insights and ideas. #trees #uktimber #rewilding #agroforestry
Wood for the Trees UK logo on a background of broadleaved trees and text: Short films exploring the future of UK woodland and forests, from sawmiller Tom Barnes and environmentalist Charly Le Marchant. Experts discuss: Planting and management for timber supply, carbon capture, rewilding, agroforestry on small farms, small woodland management and more... Youtube/@WoodForTheTrees
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How I feel too.
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Andrew Heald @andyheald.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
#Lumberjills #ILookLikeAForester www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Great bunch of fellers: the heroic wartime lumberjills – in pictures
A new photo book captures young women working in Britain’s forests during the second world war – chopping down gender barriers as they went
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Volunteering brings many rewards. Including views like this! living-woods.org.uk/news/our-nat...
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Our nature recovery project - Living Woods
The final weekend of our current nature recovery project at Gilsland brought so many benefits for all our volunteers
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Did you know that for five days each week we are out in the woods carrying out tasks such as thinning, coppicing, small tree felling, charcoal making. Learn more about it, and sign up to join us, perhaps? living-woods.org.uk/event/rekind...
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ReKindle Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Sunday - Living Woods
We lead volunteering sessions in the Derwent Valley and the Tyne Valley, and Mid/North Northumberland (Shilbottle/Rothbury) in one of several small woodlands. Tasks include thinning, coppicing, small ...
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
If you go down in the woods today, you're sure of ... seeing some of our volunteers, maybe doing a bit of coppicing! Join us every week, for forest bathing with a purpose 😊 living-woods.org.uk/events/
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Rewild Scotland @rewildscotland.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is what can be achieved. Landscape-scale habitat restoration in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌳 #Rewilding
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Who can get to west Northumberland next weekend? It's our final planting session in the gullies above Gilsland, everyone welcome..come and do YOUR bit to help save the planet 😇🌳Details: www.eventbrite.com/e/tree-plant... Please share this, thanks.
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Sounds like our sort of book😉
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Cat Scott @catzigle.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
If you're interested in how the biosphere (in this case forests) interacts with the air around us, and would like to study for an @yes-dtn.bsky.social PhD @envleeds.bsky.social - read on! ➡️ yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/exp...
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Exploring Biogenic Emissions and Air Quality Impacts from Climate-Resilient UK Woodlands: Insights from Gair Wood - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
In June 2019, the UK Government passed legislation that commits the nation to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050. As part of a strategy to achieve this, the UK’s Climate Change C...
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
@chris4patches.bsky.social We're always looking for guest speakers for our Woodnet events, if you could travel north to the Hexham area....🤔🌳
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
@catzigle.bsky.social We'd love to talk to you about our Woodnet events...could you follow us , please, so we can send DM. Thank you!🌳
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Laurence Rose @windhovering.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Nice to see my book has prompted a potential new spring journal. The first days of the British spring come well before the last days of the British winter, always. #naturewriting
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
@lizimarshall.bsky.social Please take a look at our website. We are offering a chance to DO something about the climate emergency, however small. We'd love to have your support.🌳
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Love being in the woods? Talking about woods? Watch out for our Woodnet sessions. Check our website🌳
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Tree (noun) ‘A woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.’
A massive English Oak with a human for scale
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
@crawfy467.bsky.social Do have a look at our website , what we do. It’s a way to find something positive in a crazy world 🌳
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
Old oak tree with twisted branches in autumn woodland of ancient oaks
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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Restoring Hardknott Forest Winter 2025 Newsletter out today. New volunteer dates and events 🐦‍⬛, latest on our tree nursery 🌱, documentary filming news 🎥 & a freaky natural phenomenon 😲. mailchi.mp/leeds.ac.uk/...
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
If you've had cabin fever....come out and join us! This Saturday, Tree Planting in Gilsland www.eventbrite.com/e/community-...
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Connecting with nature in winter...why it's important for us as well as the trees living-woods.org.uk/news/connect...
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 11/01/2025
🌳 Scraps of woodland in Bristol on/near the Avon in St Anne’s. I want to make sure these go to good owners but don’t have anything like enough funds or beans to run this all myself with Bath / Warleigh acquisition going through soon. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
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Check out this Land for sale on Rightmove
Land for sale in St Anne's, Bristol, Bristol, North Somerset, BS4 for £300,000. Marketed by David James, Wrington
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
We've been at the #Hexham Library Winter Tides project talking to the community about what we do!
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Come and meet our team at living-woods.org.uk Hands on, no fuss, just doing it!
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Welcome - Living Woods
Creating, caring for & connecting with woodlands
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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
@lowqualityfacts.bsky.social Thor, the Norse God of melting snow.
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Eileen Jones @cumbriapr.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The wombling Turnip! www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Z5... #wanderingturnip
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How Did The Countryside End Up Like This? - Part 1
YouTube video by Wandering Turnip
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Helen Simmons (She/Her) @littlehen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I’ve picked up changes last few years; no unnecessary car use, buying local, plant based diet, using a slow cooker, growing trees (with @livingwoods.bsky.social), no flights (though I do have 2 this year), using human power wherever possible, eg not using automatic doors, lifts, escalators. Repair.
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Everyone matters, every little helps. Thank you so much!
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Thank you so much to all our supporters and volunteers who have helped make such a difference this year. A merry Christmas to you all, and a greener new year! living-woods.org.uk/news/seeds2t...
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Fantastic team effort helps the Seeds2Trees project - Living Woods
Our volunteers and business supporters have helped us deliver another round of seeds for planting, and to collect the saplings for growing on
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
We're doing this! We've just collected saplings from 150 volunteer seed growers. See more about our Seeds 2 Trees project here living-woods.org.uk/project/seed...
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Seeds2Trees - Living Woods
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Thank you @hexham courant for this www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/2478466.... Please come and plant trees with us this weekend🌳
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Woodland group invites people to join tree planting in Northumberland
The Hexham-based Living Woods is inviting people to swap their Christmas shopping for tree planting sessions on moorland above Gilsland, in…
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. This is very recent. It wasn’t magic. It just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too. Great pic via @JBPssx
Long line up of people on bikes waiting for the light to change on a Paris street, in a separated bike-lane.
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Hands up if you think that planting trees is more fun than traipsing round the shops at Christmas time? 👍 living-woods.org.uk/news/plantin... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @fightfornature.bsky.social @treesacrowd.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
"Last time we even had ravens flying above us calling as we planted trees." northwestnewsandfeatures.wordpress.com/2024/12/07/t...
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Had enough of the Christmas frenzy already? Come and join us for a peaceful and useful weekend in glorious countryside northwestnewsandfeatures.wordpress.com/2024/12/07/t...
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Tree planters offer an escape from Christmas shopping frenzy
A woodland group have found the perfect antidote to Christmas shopping: a weekend of tree planting in glorious countryside. Volunteers from Living Woods are heading back up to the moorland edge abo…
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
How we spent last weekend: improving habitat on moorland above Gilsland, planting up gulley sides. More 20 volunteers came to help, and were greeted with hot drinks, cake and fire-pit when we got back😍
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Interest in rewilding is growing, with more and more people wanting to connect with nature and help to combat the climate and nature emergencies. These books inspire, inform, and encourage appreciation of the natural world! More: bit.ly/3EHhUkL
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Books about rewilding and nature | Little Green Space
Books about rewilding and nature
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Our conference was a great success! Many thanks to @woodlandtrust , @leeinthelakes.bsky.social and all our guests! living-woods.org.uk/news/confere...
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Conference a great success - Living Woods
The first annual conference of Living Woods at Hexham was deemed to be a great success by organisers and delegates
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Living Woods CIC @livingwoods.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Delegates and visitors are loving our conference speakers! We're celebrating National Tree Week - and five years of Living Woods! Thanks to all who support us and volunteer with us😃
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starryangie.bsky.social @starryangie.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thoroughly enjoying the Living Woods conference. So many like minded people give hope for the chances of planting the future we want and need. @leeinthelakes.bsky.social @livingwoods.bsky.social
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Helen Simmons (She/Her) @littlehen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
@livingwoods.bsky.social having a brilliant morning at the Living Woods conference. Inspiring speakers sharing really useful insights. Amazing to hear the story of the organisation from simple idea to thriving CIC thanks to passionate people.
Some sketch notes from the conference morning, showing colourful doodles and notes
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Eileen Jones @cumbriapr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Good wishes to all involved in the @livingwoods.bsky.social conference tomorrow in Hexham. A really important team helping everyone to create and manage woodland. And headline speaker @leeinthelakes.bsky.social 👏👏Come and meet them soon @guyshrubsole.bsky.social ? 😎
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