Hedgerows

Hedgerows are an iconic feature across much of the English countryside. Not only are they beautiful, with shifting seasonal colours, but they also provide homes and corridors for wildlife. And all the while they help tackle the climate emergency by capturing carbon from the air and contribute to natural flood defence systems.

We’d like to see more hedgerows planted and restored, and campaigned successfully to persuade the government to accept the Climate Change Committee’s call for a 40% increase in the extent of hedgerows by 2050 to help tackle the climate emergency.

We collaborate with a variety of partners to manage a small woodland, situated in the Green Belt, on the edge of Sheffield.

Activities such as volunteer task days, hedge-laying and dry stone walling have formed part of our wider woodland rejuvenation project with a key focus on restoring the original hedge which provides a boundary between the woodland and neighbouring fields. In doing so, we strive to create thriving habitats for wildlife.

Haythornthwaite Wood