Practical Conservation Sessions (free events). These are held monthly all year, either at weekends or midweek, with dates advertised on the website. Members can join the mailing list by contacting the Secretary at fogwsecretary@gmail.com.

Sessions are open to anyone who would like to join in. Everyone needs to provide their own gloves along with suitable clothes and footwear.

Everything we do supplements the work carried out by the Council’s woodlands team, meaning much more can be done to improve the wood for its flora, fauna and visitors alike. Typical activities are coppicing, fencing and walling, tree and undergrowth management, path repair and drain clearance and all sorts of miscellaneous jobs. 

They are from 10am for 2 to 3 hours on one Sunday in the month on an agreed date with the Sheffield City Council Ranger. A Ranger attends our work mornings with appropriate tasks (light and heavy) and tools. We meet either at the Baslow Road bus terminus, the Scout Hut on Aldam Road, Totley or at the end of Totley Hall Lane.

We may also arrange the occasional mid-week Conservation Morning where we will not have the help of a Council Ranger but will concentrate on tasks we can do independently.

Sunday 29th September

Meet 10am at the Bus Terminus. We will be raking off the picnic area after it has been strimmed

Sunday 13th October

Meet 10am at the Bus Terminus. We will working on the pond so wellies advised

Sunday 24th November

Meeting point and tasks not yet defined

Sunday 8th December

Meet 10am Meeting point and tasks not yet defined

Benches in Gillfield Wood

In Autumn 2023, SCC Ranger Chris told us that some of the benches in Gillfield Wood were put in around 10 years ago by the Ranger Service. This was a corporate work session with staff from DWP as part of their Community 10,000 project.  Ranger Henk brought along a router and etched the names of the people involved in the bench tops.  They’re still going strong!