Introduction

I have been volunteering for The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust for nearly three years now.
When I first started working with Jamie Corry I was attending Headway, a day centre for people recovering from head injuries. Jamie takes out a group from the centre to give them experience of everything from clearing rhododendrons to coppicing hazel.
After leaving Headway I saw Jamie by chance and offered to volunteer for The Wildlife Trust. Jamie took my phone number and said he’d get in touch. He later telephoned me and said he was taking some volunteers out in Winchester.
Along with a number of other volunteers I met Jamie the following day.
Jamie took us to Winnal Moors where The Trust was restoring The Moors to make them more accessible to the public.
Since then we’ve done lots of work at Winnal. We’ve cleared lots of undergrowth, we’ve also repinned the fencing around the Moors, they are now open to the public.
On the 31st of May I went to a Country Fair at Roydon Woods in The New Forest. We made Besom Brooms! And advertised what The Wildlife Trust do.
It was a successful day and we raised quite a bit of money.
We’ve also been too Bishopstoke Common and done a Butterfly count. We counted six different types of Butterfly.
Recently down at Copythorn Common we’ve fenced off squares of ground so that the livestock can not get at it. We’re trying to grow back more heather to make the site more of a moor land habitat.