Culag Community Woodland Trust Archives - Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Our Living Landscape: Communities Leading Change Conference

8th September 2021, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

On 18 August 2021 we held our free, virtual conference, Our Living Landscape: Communities Leading Change, to celebrate the end of our five years of National Heritage Lottery Funding. There were 24 presentations from partners and funders, sharing their learnings and the outcomes of their projects. Over 200 people from all over the UK and beyond registered for the event,…

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A snapshot of the Outdoor & Woodland Learning programme

17th November 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

It was a relief to return to outdoor learning with the schools as they resumed for the 2020/21 academic year back in August. Since then we’ve been busy with Achiltibuie Primary School and Lochinver Primary School every week. Here is a snapshot of what we’ve been getting up to: Explorations up hills… … into the woods… … and by the…

People, Training and Wildlife

Tapping into Nature: Woodland Artisan Courses

18th March 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Guest Blog from our course leader Chris on the recent Birch Sap course. As I slowly get to know other wood carvers around the country I’m becoming aware that everyone has their speciality – some people make spoons, others cups, some people make incredibly intricate wooden jewellery while others build houses out of logs. This has got me wondering what…

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January Volunteer Day

31st January 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

What better way to start the year than to take a wander in Culag woods and do a bit of maintenance as we go. We strolled off to try and protect trees that were planted by the primary school kids a few years ago. All are growing strong but unfortunately the tree guards are now too short, and the deer…

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The Big Climate Fightback: Tree Planting at Little Assynt

19th December 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Guest Blog by Alison Roe Saturday 30th November Quinag looms high on the horizon, glowing gently in the afternoon sun as I pull into the car park by the tree nursery at Little Assynt. I’m here for the tree planting event, organised by CALLP in partnership with The Woodland Trust, and we’re definitely lucky with the weather. Rain and…

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Sounds around Suilven

26th September 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

The crunch of gravel underfoot… leaves rustling in the breeze… birds singing… the odd giggle (or scuffle!). And the quiet stillness in between. If you happened to be down at Glencanisp yesterday afternoon, you may have been surprised to suddenly happen across eleven mostly-silent 8-10 year-olds. It was certainly a surprise for us to discover how quiet they could be,…

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Orographic Performance comes to Little Assynt All Abilities Path

30th July 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Last Tuesday we had some visitors to Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape by the name of Oceanallover. Currently they are on a tour of Scotland, performing their amazing Orographic piece. When we were first contacted about hosting a performance, we were intrigued and a look at their website and past events just made us want them to perform in the…

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Woodland Activity Leader Training Opportunity

19th July 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

We at CALL are delighted to announce that we have places available for the residents of Coigach and Assynt to join us in bringing a new training course to the area. Wild things!, from Findhorn (https://wild-things.org.uk/), have agreed to come over to our beautiful part of the world to deliver their Woodland Activity Leader Training (WALT) programme. So, what is…

People, Training and Wildlife

Mindfulness in the Woods

18th June 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Mindfulness is a word that is becoming more common to hear and a practice that is growing and benefitting many people from all walks of life in our society. Simply put, it is a mental state achieved by focusing awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting feelings, thoughts, and physical sensations. We recently concluded an 8-week Mindfulness…

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John Muir Award “spring”-ing back into action

29th March 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

As the daffodils bloom, buds emerge on trees and the mornings are increasingly filled with the poetic profanities of birds beginning to stake their claim on nesting sites and seek mates, so too our John Muir Award is springing into action after a brief winter hibernation. Kicking off with a whole year group session on 6th March, the P7s reflected…

People, Training and Wildlife

Our Living Landscape: Communities Leading Change Conference

A snapshot of the Outdoor & Woodland Learning programme

Tapping into Nature: Woodland Artisan Courses

January Volunteer Day

The Big Climate Fightback: Tree Planting at Little Assynt

Sounds around Suilven

Orographic Performance comes to Little Assynt All Abilities Path

Woodland Activity Leader Training Opportunity

Mindfulness in the Woods

John Muir Award “spring”-ing back into action

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