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After a year's wait due to restrictions put in place during the pandemic in 2020, this weekend our tree guardians finally parted ways...

For Climate Action Day this year (6th November), Newbury Friends of The Earth have looked at how we can support similar projects to our...

A fantastic Saturday was spent by the team in Goldwell Park, Newbury, our flagship Lockdown wood site. A group of 16 adults and one child...

On Saturday 21 August, 70 people gathered in Goldwell Park, Newbury, to dedicate our two Lockdown Woods in Newbury as memorials to all...

The Lockdown Woods project received a very generous donation from David and John Barlow at Barlow's Woodyard, our local Hermitage wood...

Many thanks to the dedicated team that came out on Sunday 4th of June last week to maintain our flagship Lockdown Wood in Goldwell Park....

Many thanks to Joan Stacey, Lockdown Woods member, for this article. On the 20th May at our Goldwell Park site, a brave Cubs group, led...

On Saturday 22nd of May, about 30 people gathered in Westbrook Down, Hungerford, to dedicate our first Lockdown Wood as a memorial to the...

The Newbury Town Council 2021 Award for Environmental Contributions locally has been awarded to our head organiser Susan Millington for...

It's official - our first month of 'Friends of Lockdown Woods' meetings is completed! A group of 9 met at Goldwell Park on Sunday 11th of...

Congratulations to our Lockdown Woods team who joined forces with Growing Newbury Green over the Easter holiday weekend to finish the...

The 9 January 2021 planting event in Barn Crescent was changed, for Covid 19 safety. We had volunteers in their domestic 'bubbles' to...

We are excited to announce our flagship Lockdown in Goldwell Park, Newbury was planted out last weekend in the beautiful sunshine by our...

The first Lockdown Wood has been planted! About 40 people braved the winter chill today to plant 860 young trees in Westbrook Down, above...

Due to increased measures with COVID-19 we have had to make the difficult decision to delay the planting of our homegrown saplings and...

Hi all, With the project reaching an exciting turning point, we now need to move on to planning the planting of your lovely, home-grown...

We are excited to announce our story has been covered on the press! Check out our coverage over on BBC at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

The Lockdown Woods project is delighted to be able to announce the locations of our first three Lockdown Woods! These will be planted...

With more and more lovely people on board with the project, we are beginning to find saplings being grown that sadly aren't the right...