Protect and Conserve Oxleas Woodlands

We carried on working our way through the hazel stools in this year's coupe. By part way through the session, we were starting to see continuous areas of cleared coppice, and the area was obviously more open.

This Friday half a dozen of our volunteers borrowed a barrow load of tools and puttered around to Jackwood garden to work on the compost situation.

28th November, 2025 Jack Wood - Wildflower Area (J1A) Well, those crossed fingers and toes (hoping for good weather for our session) finally worked and Friday’s Woodland Conservation Session took place in mild, bright weather, if a little slippery underfoot following Thursday’s rain. As we had a very 'healthy' team of 16 volunteers, we were not only able to continue our work in the area next to the opening to the lower path from Oxleas Meadow, but we were also able to have

Summary notes from Steering Group Meetings in October and November 2025

Shepherdleas Wood Tuesday, 18th November, 2025 Eleven volunteers turned out for Tuesday’s session.  That’s another whopping 33 hours of work and it meant that great progress was made on restoring the wildflower area across from the bridge separating Eltham Park South from Shepherdleas Wood.  Again, our aim was to get more light to the woodland floor by removing holly, as well as reducing compaction and fragmentation in the area, which has been caused by the narrowing of the m

Jackwood House Garden   Sunday, 16 th November 2025   Our second session this month was a typical, dull, damp November day but our seven, determined gardening volunteers were not deterred and got to work with gusto. Jackwood House Garden - The Fountain - swamped with vegetation.   As usual, we divided into two separate groups:  four people got back to work on the terrace area, continuing the super work they had started last session - trimming back the wisteria on the right-h