Small Woodland Owners' Group (SWOG)

News & Events

  • Gimme Shelter – Building a Simple Woodland Shelter

    Once you’ve spent any amount of time in the woods, you’ll probably discover that you need some kind of protection from the elements.  Or as Mick Jagger once sang “If I don’t get some shelter …Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away” . 

  • Newsletter July 2018

    July News The House of Wessex: Sylva’s Anglo-Saxon past Tree champion faces a huge task: the Department of the Environment has appointed Sir William Worsley as the new Tree Champion. New advice for monitoring and felling diseased ash Mammals on Roads survey. The People’s’ Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) is running a nationwide survey of…

  • 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…

  • In search of the Purple Emperor

    About 20 people met up in Cotgrave Forest to hear about managing woodlands for butterflies from Ben Driver, Southern Conservation Officer with the Notts Wildlife Trust.

  • Newsletter May 2018

    Catch up with the latest SWOG news here.

  • 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…

  • Sarah Walters

    We received news of the death of Sarah Walters with great sadness on 8 April.

  • Torthworth’s trees

    Tortworth Churchyard in South Gloucestershire is home to one of Britain’s most ancient sweet chestnut trees, so old in fact, that the first commemorative plaque about the tree is itself 200 years old.

  • Culverts – a soggy story

    Woodland owners in Waste Wood have a proud history of working together to tackle shared woodland tasks. Richard Cooper has written in to tell us about the ‘fun’ he and his partner Fi had while unblocking their culvert.

  • Woodfairs 2018

  • Newsletter April 2018

  • Confor and small woodland owners

    Confor is a membership organisation that promotes sustainable forestry and timber production through political engagement, market promotion and supporting members.