Stress Awareness Month
1 Ebrill 2022
April is Stress Awareness Month, and to celebrate, we’re taking the opportunity to explore the 5 Ways to Wellbeing, and looking at how woodlands can help you improve your own wellbeing.
The EFRA committee report - our response
22 Mawrth 2022
In a report published this week, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee stated that if the government is to create 30,000 hectares of new woodland every year in the UK by 2025, more comprehensive planting targets, better finance schemes and more accurate mapping are urgently required.
8 types of nest box to hang in your garden or the woods
18 Chwef 2022
This week we are celebrating National Nest Box Week here at Small Woods. Because many people prefer to keep their outdoor spaces neat and tidy, there is a shortage of natural nooks and crannies for birds and other animals to make their nests. Fortunately, we can help by providing safe boxes in which wildlife can build their nests, raise their young and hibernate over winter.
SWA commits to action, in pledge
16 Rhag 2021
Small Woods has signed up to the Climate Change and Forestry Accord 2021. This 2021 Accord reaffirms and updates the principles of an accord first agreed in 2015
Green social prescribing
19 Hyd 2021
A project is underway to boost ‘green social prescribing’ - where health professionals refer service users to outdoor health initiatives for physical and mental health and wellbeing.
Coed Lleol (Small Woods Wales) featured in BBC Two's New Voices from Wales
8 Ebrill 2021
An Ystradgynlais woodland wellbeing session run by Project Officer Anna Stickland is featured on BBC Two.
PhD awarded to Coed Lleol (Small Woods Wales) Researcher from Bangor University
9 Mawrth 2021
Heli Gittins explored the question: Can a woodland activity programme benefit participant wellbeing and change the way they use woods?
Coed Lleol (Small Woods Wales) reflects on successes of 2020
29 Ion 2021
Here's a summary of what we did during the pandemic in 2020.
Our Connecting People and Nature project comes to an end in Merthyr Tydfil
30 Rhag 2020
Our Connecting People and Nature project achieved so much over the three years it ran in Merthyr Tydfil.
