This case study tells the story of a long standing community woodland group. They were actively involved in supporting the environmental management of a combination of sites in the heart of Prestatyn, North Wales. This case study describes the group and our aims, how they were formed and what they hoped to achieve in the future. It also provides advice and tips for those setting up a community woodland group.
This case study is about how a community committee who did not know each other went from:
• Conflict to consensus
• Ideas to activity days
• No members to membership
• No money to some money
• No woodland to (almost) managing 50 acres of NRW managed woodland
• No knowledge of the wood to 3 surveys as a baseline
This case study shares the journey of a newly formed community woodland group; Sirhowy Valley woodlands near Tredegar. The woodland area is a reclaimed spoil and refuse tip which was used as a depository for the steel industry and household waste until the 1970s, after which it was reforested. It’s now designated as a Local Nature Reserve.
This case study tells the story of Coppicewood College, a charity, and Llais y Goedwig member that provides training courses in woodland management skills at Cwm Plysgog, a woodland in Pembrokeshire, West Wales.
This case study tells the story of Wild Pickings a small mid-wales business that sells foraged products from woodlands and the coastal areas in Ceredigion. The key themes of the case study are collaboration and sustainability.
This case study documents the overlap of two stories, that of Abergavenny Community Woodland Group (ACWG) and that of a privately owned wood, Arcadia Wood, looking at the evolving relationship between them. The study examines how a community group operates in a private woodland, at related challenges and occasional solutions, and how shared values and interests have led to a useful partnership.
This case study will tell you about how and why KTAT originated, what we have achieved, as well as what problems we are encountering and how we are dealing with them. It will give some details of the English woodland that KTAT manages but will concentrate on our Welsh site.
This case study concerns a community woodland project in the County of Ceredigion in West Wales, near a village called Pontrhydfendigaid. The woodland is part of the Welsh Government’s woodland estate and is managed by Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
The study describes how the project started and how the community has become involved and what it has achieved.
This case study outlines the experience of one community woodland group in considering social enterprise as a means of maximising grant income available, being more sustainable, and being able to take forward everyday maintenance in a woodland. It describes the journey taken and the issues faced that may be helpful for other groups considering similar issues.
Ruperra Conservation Trust was originally formed from a local history group with interest in saving a derelict local Jacobean mansion, Ruperra Castle. The Trust was then made up of a few local historians, both professional and amateur, and other supporters, both local and from further afield with an interest in historic gardens and buildings. Four original trustees formed the Trust as a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. They gathered onto their committee other like‐minded people who could help them in saving an at‐risk building, and began to fund‐raise to purchase the castle and find new uses for it.
