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On Sunday 1st December 2024, and coinciding with National Tree Week, we held our 2nd annual Tree Planting Day. In wet and rainy conditions, over 130 volunteers, from young children and scouts all the way through to grandparents, helped plant around 400 tree saplings...

Sunday 1st December is your day to plant trees in the local countryside in Laughton. Laughton Greenwood is one of the only community-run woods in Sussex. Volunteers will be planting up to 400 saplings in the wood, and lots of support is needed. With the Climate Crisis...

We had a positive walk and talk in the wood recently with Richard Austin from Butterfly Conservation & Neil Hulme, a well-known butterfly expert and consultant. Laughton Greenwood has as our neighbour to the West, Rowland Wood Butterfly reserve, so it has always...

As part of our work to restore the structure and habitats of our Ancient Woodland it’s important we know what Fauna and Flora is already exists. The first thing to do is establish a baseline to see what we already have. We can then see what changes as a consequence of...

In an exciting collaboration between Laughton Greenwood and the Newt Conservation Partnership we have created five brand new wildlife ponds in the woodland. We aim to provide ecological connectivity and breeding habitat for the small population of great crested newts...

In Laughton Greenwood we are proud of our Giant Oaks and the large numbers of young English oaks growing all over the wood. But in amongst them we also have a European species that can gradually do damage to our oaks. The Turkey oak (Quercus cerris) is a deciduous...

From Monday 12th August you may see machinery in Laughton Greenwood cutting down some of the pine trees. This is a substantial piece of work and visitors will need to KEEP AWAY FROM MACHINERY. This article explains what is happening and why. Laughton Greenwood has...

Everyone who visits Laughton Greenwood agrees that it is a beautiful wood – but our ambition for 2024 & onwards is to increase the variety of tree species in the wood. Little by little we aim to introduce more blossom trees into the wood which will give additional...

The planting of black poplars in support of Kew and Wakehurst's conservation efforts to repopulate and save this endangered British tree species was the focus of February's monthly volunteering session and it caught the interest of local ITV Meridian journalist,...

...or helping to repopulate black poplars to  be more precise   The Black Poplar is one of Britain’s rarest trees and is at risk of becoming extinct. There are only 38 mature black poplars in Sussex and only 10,000 across the whole of the UK. Laughton Greenwood,...