- FoSW AGM Wed 25th Sept 2019
- Coppicing/hedge-laying task dates
- Help your little ones discover a wilder Cheshire at Nature Tots in Spud Wood
- Set your co-ordinates for 22nd June
- Bridgewater canal staff chip in to lend a helping hand at Spud Wood
- Tree-mendous – planting trees at Spud Wood
- Hurrah, the hedge is finished
- Hedge Laying Training
FoSW AGM 25th Sept
The Friends of Spud Wood CIC AGM will be held on:
- on Wednesday 25th September from 7.30pm-8.30pm
- at Oughtrington Community Centre, Oughtrington Crescent, Oughtrington, Lymm
See below for the minutes from last year’s AGM. Our agenda is:
- Welcome, introductions & apologies
- Minutes of previous meeting
- Chair’s Report
- What has happened in 2018/19
- Wood allotments
- Spud Wood activities
- Planned for 2019/20
- Wood allotments
- Spud Wood activities
- What has happened in 2018/19
- Treasurer’s Report & receive annual accounts
- Change in Directors
- AOB, other initiatives, ideas from the floor
- Close
Set your co-ordinates for Spud Wood on 22nd June
As part of Lymm Festival Friends of Spud Wood are hosting an event to launch their new permanent orienteering course. The “Family Orienteering @ Spud Wood” free event is on Saturday 22 June running between 3-7pm, starting at Oughtrington Community Centre (on Oughtrington Crescent), with last entries at 6.30pm.
Primary school kids have tree-mendous fun planting trees at Spud Wood
Twenty children from years 5 and 6 Oughtrington Primary School helped plant over 130 trees including hazel, crab apple, downy birch, hawthorn, holly, goat willow.
The trees were planted to increase the mix of species within Spud Wood which was planted with help from the local community 20 years ago. The woodland currently contains mostly oak, ash and silver birch, and by planting other species this should help to make the woodland more resilient in the future to changes such as climate change and tree diseases as well as improving it for wildlife.
Hedge laying
We are very proud that we’ve learnt a bit about hedge laying and managed to finish the section that is most visible to visitors, and we have the blisters to prove it. Take a look.
We plan to continue laying the hedge up through the trees next year to see if we can regenerate it.
Woodland Trust Awards
2018, Jo Yellen wins Acorn Award
2016, Friends of Spud Wood wins Woodland Trust Willow Award for best collaborative achievement.
Benches
We have been very lucky to be given new picnic tables and benches by some groups and members of the community in Lymm, Oughtrington and Heatley.
Our thanks go to Heatley WI, Jubilee WI, Jubilee Gardening Club, Mrs Gregory and Mrs Bruce. See map opposite to see where you can find all the benches.
Tree planting
On Sunday 16 November 2014 Lymm High School Ecology Club helped
FoSW volunteers plant almost 100 new fruiting and flowering trees. The trees were planted to increase the foraging opportunities in the wood as include crab apples, bird and wild cherry as well as Rowan.
Activity Day – October 2017
Really fun day, shame about the weather.
Thanks to Lymm & District Round Table for supporting the event and Tim from Wilder Things www.wilderthings.co.uk for the kids activities and TESP www.theearthskillsproject.co.uk for the bodging. Pictures Courtesy of Jackie Tucker Photography – www.jackietuckerphotography.com
Wild animals & coppicing in 2016
Look at the wild animals we created
Thank you Tim Kirwin of Wilder Things www.wilderthings.co.uk and to Lymm & District Round Table for their support
Crocuses
In October 2016 Rotary of Lymm and FoSW planted 5,000 purple crocuses near the car park at Spud Wood. The crocuses are to raise money for polio eradication.
