Woodland Conference & Artists for Nature

To book onto the conference, please email conference@middlemarchescommunitylandtrust.org.uk

This is a free event and includes lunch but a donation of £25 will ensure we can hold events like this again in future. Thank you. 

Programme:

9.15am - Arrival/tea/coffee/pastries
10.00am - Dr Richard Keymer – Middle Marches Community Land Trust: Welcome, introductions and launch of MMCLT Nature Recovery Fund/Artists for Nature
10.15am - Will Fitzpatrick – The Tree Council: Shropshire’s hedgerow survey research
10.45am - Dr Keith Kirby, visiting researcher (Department of Biology), University of Oxford: Woodland flowers: ancient past, wild future?
11.30am - Peter Aspin, farmer: Shropshire Agroforestry Project
12 noon - Patrick Cosgrove & Anthony Morgan, Redlake Valley Community Benefit Society: Woodland Quillets
12.30pm - Lunch/networking/art exhibition
1.35pm - Richard Thomason, Woodland Manager, Wild about Westhope, introduces CPRE Shropshire’s short film: Life in the Coppice
2.00pm - Dougald Purce, Shropshire Hills National Landscape: Ancient Woodland Restoration Project
2.30pm - David Reeve & Russell Critchley, Small Woods Association: Mercian Woodland Biodiversity Project
3.00pm - Nick Rowles, Trees outside Woodlands: Micro Nurseries
3.30pm - Tom Shuttleworth, National Trust Assistant Trees and Woodland Advisor, Midlands and East of England: Veteran Trees
4.00pm - Dr Richard Keymer, MMCLT: Discussion: Moving forwards
4.30pm - Close

The conference is being supported by the Shropshire Hills Conservation Fund.