Coppicing Woodfuel Day

An activity with Community Woodfuel Volunteers

Activity date: Saturday 29th November 2025

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

Activity description

This is a great opportunity for you to learn about the craft of coppicing, and it also to helps maintain and manage local woodlands for people and nature over the coming years. We'll also be making dead hedges from the cut branches too, providing valuable habitat. You are also welcome to take away the logs you cut for your wood burner if you wish.

Meeting place

meeting point available on booking

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: 07740899718
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

places are limited so please email ben.woolley@tcv.org.uk for booking TCV will be running a series of Saturday volunteer days in the National Forest over the winter and into the New Year. These will include activities such as coppicing, dead hedging, bulb planting, tree planting, formative pruning, Rhododendron control, hedgelaying and dry stone walling. Please email for further details

Site Facilities

• Parking
• Nearest Toilets - n-a

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