Category: SWOG Events
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Online Tea & Talk
To coincide with this year’s World Mental Health Day on Tuesday 10th October, we’ve decided to stop and have a hot drink and a natter. Join us at 11 am for a virtual event where small woodland owners like yourself can come together to connect with fellow SWOG members and expand your knowledge about woodland…
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RSPB – SWOG Meeting 2022
Update May 2022 We are rerunning this meeting as there were a lot of people who weren’t able to make it last your due to the pandemic, I was one of them! If you were too and would like to attend, please let me know. It will be taking place on the morning of July…
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RSPB Meeting
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SWOG Online Talks
The birds and the bees We hope to be able to arrange woodland meetings later in the year, but have recently hosted two very successful online presentations that are available on YouTube.
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SWOG day at Sylva
SWOG members are invited to an exclusive day of activities at the Sylva Wood Centre, including a workshop in online mapping and a tour of the centre.
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SWOG meeting, National Forest
11 May 2019 11am–3pm We are delighted that Daniel Small, Woodland Management Officer in the National Forest, is going to lead a SWOG meeting in the National Forest.
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Mosses in Nottinghamshire
An Introduction to Mosses and Liverworts Notts Wildlife Trust Saturday 23rd February at Rushcliffe Country Park Classroom, 11am-4pm. Followed by two field sessions, the first of which is on 2 March
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RFS Winter Courses
Back by popular demand! The Royal Forestry Society has unveiled its 2019 training courses, with the tricky topic of Winter Tree ID kicking off the season on 22 February.
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Managing pests and diseases – a chance to feed your views into policy
Forest Research are working to provide Defra with evidence from different kinds of woodland owners and managers, including owners of small woodlands, about how they are/are not dealing with recent outbreaks of tree pests and diseases, such as ash dieback, and how they might be planning to deal with the threat of potential future outbreaks.…
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Butterflies at Flatropers
The White Admirals were out in force in the glorious July weather, when Alice Parfitt, Reserves Manager of the Sussex Wildlife Trust guided a group of SWOG members round Flatropers Wood Nature Reserve. She described the work that Sussex Wildlife has carried out to encourage butterflies and birds in the woodland. Flatropers is managed by…
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Birds and butterflies in Flatropers Wood
Flatropers Wood, Rye, Sussex 14 July 10.30am-1.30pm A guided walk with Alice Parfitt of the Sussex Wildlife Trust through Flatropers Wood, 37 hectares of mixed woodland, rides and paths. Refreshments will be available next door in the wood of SWOG members Dominic and Wendy Eldred-Earl. Alice will discuss the successful management of Flatropers for butterflies and birds and…
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SWOG meeting Nottinghamshire
Butterflies in the Midlands – SWOG meeting We are delighted to be able to run another meeting about managing woodlands for butterflies, this time in the Midlands. Thanks to owners in Cotgrave Forest and Ben Driver from the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, there will be a SWOG meeting at Cotgrave, Notts at 2pm on Saturday 23 June. Ben…