Tag: charity

Late last year we received welcome news that we were successful with our application to the Welsh Government Woodland Investment Grant (TWIG). Since then we have had a very busy winter developing the site and making some essential improvements. We were awarded a grant of over £30,000 for our TWIG ‘Woodland Access and Inclusion’ project. […]

Aline Denton began volunteering for nature at Denmark Farm Conservation Centre in the late 1990’s and has recently returned after a short break. Here she explains more about her volunteer role, and highlights some of the other volunteering opportunities at Denmark Farm. I first started volunteering at Denmark Farm in the late 1990s after an […]

The Proclaimers once sang about walking 500 miles and then, if that wasn’t enough, apparently wanted to “walk 500 more”. Whilst the melody was great, the idea was plainly ridiculous. Obviously what they meant to sing was “If I could walk ten and a half miles, and I could walk ten and a half more, […]

Aren’t volunteers brilliant? We certainly think so! Volunteers are what makes Denmark Farm what it is, and we couldn’t do it without them.  Our volunteers contribute a wide range of skills and knowledge. Our Trustees look after everything from finance to conservation management, then there are other volunteers involved in everything from IT support,  to looking […]

We have just 7 days remaining for our crowdfunded earth oven campaign and we’ve been overjoyed with the fantastic response from donors who (at of time of writing) have contributed £1,315.00 toward our £1,500.00 target. So, from all of us at Denmark Farm, thank you so much for your support. All our backers will be […]

Denmark Farm is an important place to me. I first heard about it 25 years ago when I was studying hedgerows and looking for good quality examples to survey. Sadly, at the time, the hedges at Denmark Farm were in poor shape and so I never went to look at them. In fact, I didn’t […]

There are various ways that you can support any charity, from simply giving a cash donation to becoming a volunteer. Here at Denmark Farm, you can also support our work by staying in the ecolodge, by attending one of our courses or by booking all or part of the site for an event (from a conference […]

Some months ago I announced the launch of Craft and Cake: an initiative to raise funds for Denmark Farm. A group of us meet regularly to get creative, making beautiful objects to raffle off later this year. So far our endeavours have focused on knitting and crochet and we have had donations of yarn as well as […]