Our annual Spring walk will take place on Sunday 23rd April 2017 at 10am. We are very pleased that Daniel Greenwood has agreed to lead the walk again this year. His knowledge of all things wild is infectious (how could he not be a wildlife expert with a surname like that?!). The walk will include Dog … Read more
A small group of volunteers tackled the hedge that runs down the side of the wood, bordering the housing estate today. Many of the whips had become incredibly tall and were in desperate need of a prune in order to make them grow more bushy. The nettles, brambles and other weeds that strangle the hedge were … Read more
This weekend is the RSPB’s annual Big Garden Birdwatch and we joined forces with the Friends of Green Dale to do a spot of early morning twitching today. Armed with binoculars, pens, pencils and bird ID books, we headed out into DKH Open Space and Green Dale to record the species we saw from 9am – … Read more
Our application for Cleaner, greener, Safer funding from Southwark Council was successful and we were awarded the money to get the paths in the wood topped up with new gravel. The previous surface was disappearing under the yearly layer of leaf mulch and so had gradually disappeared, leaving a muddy track. Following a meeting with … Read more
The 2016 AGM was held for the first time at the DKH Adventure Playground next to the wood, on Thursday 27th October from 7pm. We started with a report from the Chair about this year’s activities, which included a winter work day, a spring work day to weed the hedge, a meeting with Sainsburys contractors about … Read more