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Events at Heartwood Forest
■ Tree planting events: Heartwood Forest hosts regular tree planting events, including weekly ‘work parties’ which see local volunteers meet one day per week to carry out tree planting activities on site.
■ Heartwood Forest Bluebell Event: On Sunday 8 May 2011, the public are invited to learn more about Heartwood Forest while admiring the bluebells along a self-guided trail. There will also be children’s activities along the way.
■ Discover Summer Butterfl ies at Heartwood: On Sunday 31 July 2011 at 10am, the team at Heartwood will lead a walk through newly-planted
members and local people alone, so corporate support is very important. The cost of the land makes up the largest part of the cost for the project, and therefore makes up the bulk of the fundraising need. Disney Store is the only company to fund the creation of a new wood at Heartwood Forest, but companies including IKEA and Veolia have funded the creation of several thousand acres of new woodland here.
You are running a summer festival. What will this offer? The HeARTwood Summer Festival has been running for the past two years; the idea behind this and the other events we run at the site is to engage the local population in the work we’re doing at Heartwood Forest. We want people in the nearby village of Sandridge and across Hertfordshire to feel proud of the wood and to play an active role in shaping it, as hope- fully it’s going to play a large part in their lives for decades to come. The Summer Festival celebrates eve-
rything that’s great about trees and woods. A range of activities take place at the festival, from orienteering to willow weaving. We’ve had several hun- dred people attend both years.
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Events at Heartwood include a bluebell walk (above) and summer festival
areas of the forest to see vivid dis- plays of summer butterfl ies. Target species include Skippers, Marbled White, Blues and Browns. Handy tips will be provided by experts to help the public learn how to identify individual species of butterfl y.
■ HeARTwood Summer Festival: Saturday 27 August 2011, 11am-3pm. An outdoor family event to celebrate trees and woodland through art. The day will include a chance to try willow weaving, sketching and photography workshops and a teddy bears’ picnic.
Numerous other activities have taken place – from photography workshops to astronomy courses and bluebell walks – as the site lends itself well to a whole range of varied activities [see box above for more details].
What are the plans for the next 12 months at Heartwood? The fi rst aim is to meet our tree- planting goal for the year, which is 120,000 trees in the ground by the end of spring, taking the overall total to 210,000. We are also run- ning a bluebell walk and of course the HeARTwood Summer Festival in August, as well as the other activities I’ve mentioned. We are also hoping to put an all-ability route in place in on site to improve access and the visitor experience for everyone.
‘Welly wanging’ at Heartwood Forest
What other activities are taking place at Heartwood Forest? As I mentioned before, we’ve held two individual world record attempts on site, we’ve planted an orchard, and held tree planting days for locals, for several corporate partners and for hundreds of schoolchildren.
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What are your longer term plans for Heartwood Forest? We want Heartwood Forest to be a fl agship site for people to visit in England. Our target is to attract 100,000 visitors a year. We hope that by creating woodlands such as this one we’ll continue to inspire people and educate them about the impor- tance of planting native trees and protecting our existing woods. ●
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