Community Woodland
Network group profiled
Twice a year we are going to profile different groups via the newsletter.
This issue we have focused on Brookings
Down Group. If you would like your group to be profiled please get in touch
as we are now looking for our next willing victims (only
joking)
email. We hope you enjoy the article:
Brookings Down, Noss Mayo, South Devon
At least two centuries old, Brookings Down Wood lies 10 miles from
Plymouth, on the edge of the small village of Noss Mayo. When the
land came up for sale, a group of local people couldn't wait to take
it off the hands of the seller, a speculative builder whose bids to
secure planning permission had thankfully proved fruitless.
As the new millennium dawned in January 2000, the purchase was
completed and the local group decided that linking in with the
Woodland Trust's Community Woodland Network would really boost their
efforts to care for and fund the wood. Having raised £18,000 to buy
the wood, the group then gave it to the Trust, drawing upon it's experience
in woodland management. The volunteers then leased the wood back
from the Trust.
Since then, with a lot of hard work by an enthusiastic group of
around 30 volunteers, Brookings Down Wood has gone from strength to
strength. They raised a further £20,000, from Friends of BDW and
various other sources including a £2,000 CWN grant. With it, they
bought insurance, tools and trees.
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