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.

 

If you are interested in helping us carry out such work in Gillfield Wood or have any questions, please contact fogwsecretary@gmail.com

  

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.

Practical Conservation Mornings

Sunday 29th September

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

Working on the wildflower meadow at the picnic site

Sunday 13th October

Meet 10am at the Bus Terminus. Coppicing along the ride and renovation of benches and signs

 

Sunday 24th November

Meet 10am at the Bus Terminus. Clearing around the pond and removing silt from part of the pond. Wellies advised

Sunday 8th December

Meet 10am at the end of Totley Hall Lane. Bramble clearing in the glade in Pheasant Wood and repairing natural fence. Strong gloves advised

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!

* News *

November 2024 - New bat boxes

November 2024 - Photos from the fungi foray

Coming Soon ...

Generally free to members, a £3 donation being requested from non members.

(see Events page  for further details):

*  2024  *

Monday 2nd December:

Talk at Totley Library, 7.30pm – Danny Udall, Senior Site Manager, Eastern Moors Partnership.

Upland Change in a Nature and Climate Emergency.

How the Eastern Moors landscape needs to change to meet the demands of climate change

Practical Conservation Sessions, led by a Ranger.

Wear suitable clothing & footwear. Tools, PPE and light refreshments are provided by the Ranger.

*  2024  *

Sunday 8th December

 

Meet 10am at the end of Totley Hall Lane.

Bramble clearing in the glade in Pheasant Wood and repairing natural fence. Strong gloves advised

 Further dates :

*  2025  *

Sunday 5th January

Sunday 2nd February

Sunday 2nd March

Sunday 27th April