Diamond Jubilee planting

Adrienne sent in this message with a link to the Woodland Trust

As you may know, we held our tree planting on a beautiful day in November. We were part of the campaign by the Woodland Trust to plant 6 million trees in Britain to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
Our trees were donated by the local Council and the Woodland Trust.  Well, we’re delighted to report that we have all played our small part in achieving the goal!  6 million trees have been planted all over the country with the 6 millionth tree being planted by The Princess Royal.  Well done everyone who helped our contribution to this amazing achievement.
There is a website link for anyone who would like to know more about the Woodland Trust Campaign at http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/jubilee-woods/about/Pages/our-aims.aspx
Thanks again to everyone who helped.

Family Fun Day is this Sunday

Update…
There is a Family Fun Day for all at the Dewpond today 19th May. From 10am to 2pm
There will be activities for all ages

Woods springing to life

Wood Anemones

Mark captured these Wood Anemones in the  clump area on Sunday during the task day, it’s great to see these becoming established

Spring Coffee Morning

Come along to the

2013 Spring Coffee Morning
and ‘Bring and Buy’ sale at the

The Holy Family Catholic Church Hall

at Monks Farmhouse in North Road, Lancing

Saturday 6th April.
Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Julia Loftus of Jules crafts will be manning a table

Looking for new Friends at Christmas?

North Road closed on Saturday afternoon for the annual Christmas shopping and charity fund-raising event.
Chairman Henry braved the cold and manned the FoLR table to offer the friendship and community spirit of our local conservation group.
We hope that some of those that took interest will join us and share in our love of the local natural environment that is on the doorstep.

Message from Adrienne

What a wonderful morning this was.  Just thought I would update everyone on the tree planting.  Henry had a commemorative book which most people signed and we had about 100 people helping to plant the trees.  Thank you to everyone who came along and took part.  We would also like to say a big thank you to Graham and John from Adur District Council for all their help with organising the logistics before the day and their help at the tree planting.  We are very grateful to everyone.  Don’t forget to join the Friends and support us in our future activities if you can.

~ Adrienne Stevenson
FoLR Secretary

AdrienneStevenson@gmail.com

Planting the Jubilee Diamond

Around  60+ Friends of Lancing Ring including the Chairman of Adur District Council, Peter Metcalfe and the Adur Watch team with Graham Gunn, gathered on Sunday morning to take part in the creation of a Jubilee Diamond, consisting of Spindle, Whitebeam and Beech with a centrepiece of an Oak sapling.
The oak was  planted by FoLR chairman Henry Heath with a short ceremony, assisted by a very young member of the assembled crowd.
Henry made this declaration ”We’ve got a very special tree, a Royal Oak” and reading from the label which said ‘this sapling has been grown from a seed collected from one of the Royal Household Estates’, he added “You won’t get a more important tree than this one!”

Video

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From FOLR Jubilee Tree Planting

From FOLR Jubilee Tree Planting

Slideshow Jubilee Planting

The committee members  wish to give sincere thanks to everyone who came along.

woodlandtrust.org.uk/communitytrees

jubileewoods.org.uk

Jubilee Tree Planting

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Thanks to Mark Emery of Sussex Woodsman for these images of the Jubilee tree planting event on Sunday Related articles Trees planted to commemorate Diamond Jubilee year (watfordobserver.co.uk) Thousands of trees to be planted (bbc.co.uk)  

Ash Die Back

If you are  concerned about the news of this new fungal disease threatening our Ash trees, then please take a look at these links..

http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/about-us/faqs/your-woods/Pages/ash-dieback.aspx#.UJD7HcUz1IE

http://www.fraxback.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=435

Autumn Coffee Morning

27 October 2012
Friends of Lancing Ring
Coffee Morning
Venue: The Holy Family Catholic Church Hall at Monks Farmhouse in North Road, Lancing
Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm