Something Wild for the Weekend?

Dormice are enjoying spectaculr displays of bluebells and other woodland flowers at this time. They are looking their best right now.

Wherever you live take a visit to one of our ancient woodlands to experience this wildlife spectacle either this week or as soon as possible.

Arger Fen & Spouse Vale - Sudbury
Bradfield Woods - between Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
Groton wood - Hadleigh
Reydon wood - Southwold
Bonny Wood - Stowmarket
Combs Wood - Stowmarket
Bulls Wood - Sudbury
Captain's Wood - Sudbourne

Carillion go Nuts for Suffolk's Dormice

Carillion is supporting the Trust with £5000 form its Natural Habitats Fund which will go towards a new mower and training for volunteers to use a brush cutter for the long term management of Bradfield Woods.

The partnership will see Carillion staff take part in learning and practrical tasks over the course of a year with the focus of improving the newly acquired 16 acre block of ancient woodland called Hannah's close.

After the first day out coppicing and nest box checking Sara Durham of Carillion said

'We had a good day out, Pete Fordham was very good at keeping us in order and imparting his knowledge , and the talk by Simone was excellent too! We look forward to the next visit'.

Dormice are a UK and European protected species and live predominantly in ancient woodland here in Suffolk, the edge of their national range.

Welcome

Hello and welcome to Suffolk Wildlife Trust's Investor in Wildlife blog, a regular source of information for your business and work colleagues to keep up to date with the various ways wildlife and people are benefiting from our membership scheme and other partnerships throughout the county.

When we surveyed your companies a year or so back you told us that networking and keeping in regular touch was key to your involvement so please feel free to share this information with others and sign up for updates to the right of this post.

Michael Strand

Community Fundraising Manager