This year Sustainable Life set up over 200 wooden snowflakes in ten acres along the woodland pathway to encourage people to explore this newly opened up area and get to know and see for themselves the space that the volunteers have been working hard to create all year. We chose […]

For our final few weeks on site for the Severn Trent Water maintenance project the lads ahve been looking at the far end of Ten Acres by the Dogpool Lane entrance where there are a couple of pockets of small copses. The council have recently added more woodland to these […]

Another beautiful day out and about litter picking in Ten Acres with a whopping 11 volunteer turnout! Amazing! We were joined by B37/Tribal bug/bird experts Kevin and Helen as well as volunteers (many of which were armed with thier own litter picking tools. We took a breaks in the woods […]

Today we did some litter picking along the grassy strip on the side of cartland road outside of ten acres as well as across the riverbrook meadow and from this one grass area managed to fill a whole bin bag! Top litter finds were: cigarette butts cig and tabacco packets […]

We are currently opening up our volunteering opportunities for the Ten Acres woodland with the Friends of Ten Acres & Sustainable Life Voluntary Organisation. We have the following needs right now: Litter picking volunteers – OPENOrganised once a month roughly, up to 4 people at a time. Tools, bin bags, […]

Sustainable Lifes wellbeing in the woods project has not been able to continue during lockdown, but we are pleased to announce the funds have been graciously reallocated by the Lottery to allows us to provide a range of online resources for the Ten Acres site instead. So stay tuned as […]

We organised our very first volunteer litter picking session with social distancing in two groups of two. On Friday 12th June a team of 4 volunteers (including our trustee Stephanie, organising & participating) armed with litter pickers, gloves, sanitiser and bin bags wandered into the Woodland area of Ten Acres […]

Our key safety gear – hard hats and hi viz jackets have arrived for the Friends of Ten Acres and thier volunteers. This will be vital equipment when conservation work begins to ensure the safety of our practitioners and volunteers while working in the derelict woodland. Proudly modelled here by […]

We want to catalogue the Ten Acres Flora and Fauna online as part of our conservation and management plan – and we need your help! Download the iNaturalist app on your phone and join the Ten Acres Conservation project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/ten-acres-conservation Go to the Ten Acres woodland site on one of […]