Category: Events

  • SWOG Meet – Knowlands Wood

    Many thanks to Nick and Harriet for  opening their stunning woodland in Barcombe to SWOG members.  Nick has been managing it for wildlife for over 30 years and it truly is an amazing and  diverse haven for birds, butterflies and many other woodland creatures, including ourselves  on this wonderful spring day!

  • Coppice week on Ashdown Forest

    Surrey & Sussex Coppice Group are once again putting on a ‘Coppice Week’ on Ashdown Forest in East Sussex.

  • Fundamental Bushcraft Course – 18th March 2011

    Nature’s Craft are offering a heavily discounted weekend course in Bushcraft next month, which is only available to SWOG members and their families.

  • Chestnut bark weaving workshop

    Anyone  interested in learning to weave  baskets from chestnut bark?

  • Horse logging event

    There is a free horse logging event at St Julian’s (near Sevenoaks) on Thursday 18th November and there will also be a firewood processing machinery demonstration from Jonathan Latham from Forestry Equipment. The event is aimed at land managers and woodland owners. All welcome,  for more details click on the flyer http://www.swog.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Horse-logging-event-at-St-Julians-18-Nov-2010.pdf

  • ‘EcoDiy’ Green Woodworking Workshop

    There is one last place available on the ‘EcoDiy’ green woodworking day workshop  in Essex on Sunday 24th October.

  • Low-Impact Smallholding Survey at Monkton Wyld – Dorset

    Low-Impact Smallholding Survey with Simon Fairlie, Jyoti Fernandes and Rebecca Laughton October 15th – 18th (Fri – Mon) £295 residential, £195 non-residential, £230 camping) (Fri-Sun rates and concessions available, including £25 off residential and camping rates for SWOG members)

  • Photography workshop – Alvecote Wood

    5th September 2010 9.00am to 5.00pm If you have a digital camera, but are sometimes frustrated that the images you take don’t reflect what you have seen, then this is for you. You don’t need to have a lot of photographic knowledge, just a wish to improve your photography and get the most out of…

  • Surrey Hills Woodfair

    The Surrey Hills Wood Fair is now confirmed for 8/9 October 2010.

  • Bodgefest 2010 – Saturday 4th September

    Dunnottar Bodgers Group invite family and friends to a picnic in the woods. A chance to find out about woodland crafts, get a little hands-on perhaps, see local artists work and sit back round the camp fire and enjoy live music and children’s entertainments.