Newsletters

Spring 2024

  • Annual General Meeting
  • Join our Volunteers
  • Forest School
  • Spring Open Day
  • Visit the Community Garden
  • News from the Chair
  • Membership Renewal
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    Spring 2023

    • Spring Open Day
    • Speckled Wood Action Day
    • Parent and Child Forest School
    • Tool store in Church Street Broken Into…
    • We Need More Volunteers
    • Clearance of Blocked Stream Culvert …
    • News from the Chair
    • Membership Renewal
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      Autumn 2022


      • New Chair elected
      • Stream bridge replacement work now complete
      • Progress with eradication of Japanese knotweed
      • Forest School
      • Cabin painting
      • Lots going on in Speckled Wood
      • We need more volunteers
      • Membership renewal

      Download Autumn 2022 Newsletter

      Spring 2022

      • Why not come and join us?
      • New leaflet
      • Annual General Meeting
      • Forest School
      • Volunteer sessions
      • Support us while you shop
      • Our supporters

      Download Spring 2022 Newsletter

      Autumn 2021

      • Volunteers
      • Volunteers maintaining the Wood
      • Volunteer Saturday
      • Searching for your stories in Speckled Wood
      • Award winning!
      • Help us while you shop
      • Our supporters

      Download Autumn 2021 Newsletter

      Spring 2021

      • Volunteer sessions in Speckled Wood
      • New land acquisition
      • Free gardening micro courses
      • Protecting our footpaths
      • Speckled Wood open day
      • Would you help us with your time and skills?
      • Continue to help OCLT while you shop

      Download Spring 2021 Newsletter

      Autumn 2020

      • Volunteers maintaining the Wood
      • Eradication of Japanese Knotweed
      • Site volunteer base unit
      • Land purchases
      • Realisation of Ore Valley Greenway moves closer
      • Would you help us with your time and skills?
      • Community garden and tree planting
      • Continue to help us while you shop

      Download Autumn 2020 Newsletter

      Spring 2020

      March 2020 Newsletter

        • Ore CLT Volunteer Team Working in Speckled Wood
        • Funding for community edible garden awarded
        • Lower Ore Valley Green Spaces
        • Help Ore Community Land Trust while you shop
        • The Woodland Trust is donating 30 trees

      Download Spring 2020 Newsletter


      Summer 2019

      Summer 2019 Newsletter

            • OCLT Volunteer Team Working in Speckled Wood
            • Very Successful Litter Pick
            • Volunteer Information Day
            • Land Purchase
            • Uncertain Future for the Old Power Station Site
            • Volunteer Activity
            • Would You Like to Join our Speckled Wood Volunteer Team?

      Download Summer 2019 Newsletter


      February 2019

      Feb 2019

              • Review of 2018
              • Our new committee
              • Volunteer base and tool store – Church Street
              • Would you like to volunteer?
              • Speckled Wood Wordsearch

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      July 2018

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                • OCLT land in Speckled Wood
                • Volunteers needed for clearance work
                • Residents’ Survey
                • AGM 29th September
                • Big Local North East Hastings funding for OCLT projects
                • Membership Subscriptions

           Download July 2018 Newsletter


      December 2017

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                    • Land now owned by OCLT
                    • Speckled Wood base and Volunteer project
                    • Xmas tea, coffee and cake – 9th December
                    • Frederick Road site – controversial proposals
                    • Ore Valley Action relaunched
                    • Membership subs due

      Download December 2017 Newsletter


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      November 2017 – Bulletin

                    • Speckled Wood Land Acquisition Plan
                    • Transfer of Hastings BC Land to Ore CLT for Volunteer Base
                    • Church Street and Plot clearance

           Download November 2017 Bulletin


      September 2017

                      • We are now a Charitable Incorporated Organisation

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                    • Community Land Ownership
                    • Land Acquisition Plan – Phase 1
                    • Site Office Base and Volunteer Project
                    • Hastings BC Plans for the Transfer of Green Spaces in the Ore Valley
                    • The old Power Station Site – A Community led Regeneration Project
                    • Small Housing Development – Clifton Road end of Church Street
                    • Woodland Work, Volunteer Co-ordination & Speckled Wood Newsletters – a thank you to Derek and Karen
                    • Speckled Wood – Footpaths and Information Leaflet & Ore Trails
                    • AGM – Saturday 30 September – 10.30am
                    • Membership Subscriptions Due

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      June 2017

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      Newsletter of all things Speckled Wood

                    • Record-making in the Wood
                    • Opportunities in the Wood
                    • Activities in the Wood
                    • Herbs in the Wood

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      May 2017

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      Newsletter of all things Speckled Wood

                    • Ladybirds
                    • Developing canopy
                    • Present activities
                    • Ecology walk
                    • Other wildlife
                    • Tales from the Wood

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      April 2017

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      Newsletter of all things Speckled Wood

                    • Ecology in the Wood
                    • Present activities
                    • A walk in the wood
                    • Geometry in the Wood
                    • A spring poem

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      March 2017

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      Newsletter of all things Speckled Wood

                    • Spring! Spring! Spring!
                    • Rubbish clearance
                    • Wildlife in the wood

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      February 2017

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      Newsletter of all things Speckled Wood

                    • Present Activities
                    • Spring Clean in the Wood
                    • Wildlife in the Wood
                    • Photography in the Wood

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      January 2017

      Jan2017

      Newsletter of all things Speckled Wood

                    • birds
                    • trees
                    • Ore Valley Greenway Walk
                    • Lots more fungi!

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      December 2016

      Dec2016

      Newsletter of all things Speckled Wood

                    • More on the concrete brench
                    • footpath clearing
                    • lizards
                    • butterflies
                    • fungi

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      November 2016

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      Newsletter of all things Speckled Wood

                    • Rubbish clearance
                    • Recycled concrete bench
                    • Wood pile fence
                    • Wildlife

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      Dec 2015

      December 2015

                      • Speckled Wood allotments project
                      • Woods report
                      • Autumn wildlife in the woods
                      • Victoria Avenue development refused

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      May 2015

                      • AGM 13th June
                      • New volunteers needed
                      • Ore Valley Greenway – progress report
                      • Summer Wildlife
                      • Tribute to Jeremy Birch
                      • Growing up in Speckled Wood

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      October_2014

      October 2014

                        • New Committee elected
                        • Big Local funding
                        • Frederick Road – A memory of the past
                        • Local Plan proposal for Speckled Wood

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      April 2014

                        • Annual General Meeting
                        • Ore Centre improvements
                        • Ore Trails
                        • Ore Valley Greenway
                        • Ore Village Green

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      October 2013

      Download our October 2013 newsletter

                        • Volunteer team woodland work
                        • Clifton Road/Church Street site clearance stopped
                        • Victoria Avenue – Site Planning Application

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      April 2013

      Download our April 2013 newsletter

                    • Volunteer working parties to clean up Speckled Wood
                    • Details of the OCLT Annual General Meeting
                    • Ore Village Fair 2013
                    • Green Space protection for Speckled Wood
                    • Ore Walking Trails Project

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      December 2012

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                    • Hastings Local Plan to protect large part of Speckled Wood
                    • Speckled Wood as a community woodland
                    • Village Green and Allotment Project
                    • New notice board
                    • Members and supporters meeting

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      Download our June 2012 newsletter

      June 2012

                    • News from the AGM
                    • Clear up mornings
                    • Shaping Hastings – the new Hastings Local Plan
                    • Ore Village Fair 2012
                    • Details about the Big Local fund

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      Download our February 2012 newsletter

      February 2012

                    • Hastings Development Management Plan
                    • Every village needs a village green
                    • Ore Village Fair 2012
                    • Dates for your diary
                    • Footpath Improvements and New Steps
                    • Clearance and Conservation Work update

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