FCWT recently commissioned the Forres Men’s Shed to make 24 bird boxes for installation in Muiry / Newforres and Sanquhar. The above photo shows the boxes being handed over to the Trust. They are of a very sturdy construction made from recycled wood and designed to last. The box entry holes are sized for blue […]

Class 6 of Andersons Primary school, who are this term learning about Climate and Biodiversity, made their way up to the Muiry Wood last Friday to lend a hand to a group of adult volunteers from the Forres Community Woodlands Trust. They all removed plastic tree guards which the trees had outgrown and were no […]

The Trust has been developing the Coffin Field as a Wild Flower Meadow for the past few years by managing the field to encourage the natural growth of wild flowers.  These efforts are beginning to show results as can be seen in the photographs below.  You will see in one photograph that the wild flowers […]

Some 20 years after the first attempt, the Trust has been given the opportunity to purchase the 7 hectares (17+ acres) of woodlands at Cathay which were carved out of the original Muiry Woods deal in 2000 and sold to a 3rd party.  In 2019 the area was the subject of a failed planning application […]

The FCWT are very grateful to the Forres Group of Mens Shed for manufacturing notice boards for the car parks at Muiry and Newforres Woods.  These notice boards blend in beautifully with their surroundings and enable the FCWT to provide information and advice for those parking before walking in the woods.

The FCWT Trustees have continued to operate despite the restrictions imposed by the Government to limit the spread of Covid 19.  The monthly Trustees Meetings resumed online in August by Zoom with Minutes posted in The Office section of the website as normal. The AGM will be held on Thursday 27th November at 1930 via […]

A class of 27 Anderson’s Primary 6 children teamed up with Forres Community Woodland Trust volunteers to give them a hand – or rather 54 hands – with their conservation work in Sanquhar Wood. The youngsters spent an afternoon pulling up Western Hemlock saplings, which are an invasive foreign species, and planting native oak. They […]

CHOOSE THE FORRES COMMUNITY WOODLANDS TRUST The FCWT has been selected as one of the 3 organisations in the Forres area to benefit from the Co-op Local Community Fund over the coming year.  The Fund’s aim is to improve local communities and the FCWT will use the funding to improve paths within the woodlands thereby […]