Community Woodfuel at Bagworth Heath Woodlands

An activity with Community Woodfuel Volunteers

Activity date: Saturday 11th January 2025

Start time: 10:00
Finish time: 15:00

Activity description

Would you like to help biodiversity, while reducing your living costs? Come and join our Community Woodfuel session, where we thin young planted woodland (a planned part of biodiversity improvement) in return for taking your harvested wood home for your own use! This is also a great family activity - parent and child (aged around 10 +) STRICTLY by arrangement, or why not come with your partner and some other adult relatives?! Tools, training and wheelbarrows provided for this great fun, richly rewarding activity. Please contact Ben to book your FREE place.

Meeting place

Meet at Bagworth Heath Woodlands car park at 10am.

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Activity location

Bagworth Heath Woods, Heath Road, Bagworth, Coalville, LE67 1DL

Site description

This lovely site was created on a coal waste site, but now has two lakes, extensive wild flower meadows and young woodland. It is home to wild orchids, sand martins and internationally rare lowland heathland.

Pick Up Point

Contact

Ben Woolley

Telephone: 07740 899718
Email: ben.woolley@tcv.org.uk
Website: https://www.tcv.org.uk/nationalforest

Please bring

• packed lunch
• suitable outdoor clothes
• suitable outdoor footwear

Further info

Please contact Ben to book your FREE place. Please wear safety boots if you have them, or stout shoes with good grips, eg walking boots. Sorry, for safety reasons we cannot allow volunteers to use power tools on site. We provide hot drinks and biscuits but please bring your lunch. And don't forget to have breakfast, you will be being active!

Site Facilities

• Parking
• Nearest Toilets - n-a

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