1st-7th June (12-4pm) BTCV - conservation activities across Hargate Forest
2nd June (8:30pm) – Bat Walk, meet at the main entrance
1st-4th June (10-4pm) Alan Sage – traditional craft workshops
4th -5th June (10-4pm) Sunrise Bushcrafts – bespoke bushcraft sessions
To promote National Volunteers week (1st-7th June 2010) BTCV are offering people the opportunity to try their hand at traditional woodland crafts, bushcraft activities for children and a chance to get involved in practical conservation work at the Woodland Trusts Hargate Forest - a large and beautiful woodland site hidden away on the edge of Tunbridge Wells.
Mobilise the family and join Sunrise Bushcraft; build your own outdoor shelter, learn about trees and their usage or get down and dirty learning bushcraft skills. Or, join local woodsman, Alan Sage, and take part in our woodland craft workshops; make your own willow sculpture, build a chestnut hurdle or create your own hedgerow basket. If that’s not enough; join one of our many conservation activities with BTCV; help us with the pond-edge clean-up, hands-on heathland management, dead hedge creation and rhododendron clearance.
Warren Young, BTCV’s Community Project Officer for the Weald Forest Ridge said, “To celebrate National Volunteer Week we have laid on fun and educational activities for all ages and backgrounds. Anyone who is inspired to care for the forest should join us for an hour or two, all activities are free for everyone to enjoy - people should come on down and really get stuck in whilst learning something new. Meeting on the last Sunday of each month we are also in the process of forming a local conservation volunteer group to help manage Hargate Forest - anyone joining the group will receive free training and support from BTCV. Our working parties are great exercise, deeply rewarding and an enjoyable social event for many of our volunteers.”
The entrance to Hargate Forest is on Broadwater Down road; 2 miles south of central Tunbridge Wells just off the A26
Call Warren Young, Community Project Officer for the Weald Forest Ridge on 07740 899 678
or, email [email protected]