25 years of Friends of Gipton Wood. Come along to our annual summer party where will be doing cooking marshmallows over the fire, doing woodland crafts with children and a BBQ with tea, hotdogs and homemade cakes.
Meet at the Green Arch on Gipton Wood Road at 11am.
Brooks Ecological have completed an Ecology Survey of Gipton Wood finding that the Wood is in excellent condition, thanks, in part, to the work of the Friends. A huge thank you to Roundhay Environmental Action Project (REAP) and Morley Glass for funding this survey. This survey wasn’t to tell us about what we have in…
The July Volunteer Action Morning concentrated on bramble pulling, extending the area which was worked on in 2024, in order to help the bluebells in the area flourish. It was a highly satisfying morning with the brambles lifting easily from the wood floor. We are hoping for a lovely showing of bluebells in this area next…
Thank you to everyone who completed our consultation survey and provided feedback on proposals for Gipton Wood. We’re thrilled that 92% of respondents supported all or most of the proposals. We’re now working through the feedback to look at where we can improve the proposals, or where we may need to change or adjust them….
On Saturday 4th April, a merry band of volunteers shook off the Easter chocolates and embraced the season by continuing our long‑term project to create a ‘dead hedge’ along the Copgrove Road boundary of the wood. This is beginning to provide a natural way to deter motor vehicles from entering the site, and we think…
For our May Volunteer Action Day we met up to put in a dead hedge along part of Copgrove Road by an informal entrance to the wood. This consisted of stakes driven into the ground about 2 metres apart in a one metre wide double row. This was then filled with dead branches and twigs…
We’re really excited to have launched this website on our socials and to our community of Friends. We’d like to say a huge THANK YOU to Climate Action Leeds and to our Local Councillors, Lisa Martin, Jordan Bowden and Zara Hussain, and the Inner North East Leeds Community Committee, for funding the development of this…