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The Land Trust

Green Angels

We have begun The Land Trust’s Green Angels programme which provides free environmental
regular training and education, makes a huge difference to the lives of our trainees,
helping many into further education and employment. It’s a great way to learn
drumming circle new skills, meet like-minded people and make a difference to the local
meetings and environment.
outdoor yoga The programme was launched as a pilot in Liverpool in 2013, and since then has
sessions, both of gone from strength to strength, enhancing our community engagement offering at
which are a number of sites around the country.
inspiring a very We are really seeing the benefits to wildlife that our major long term Green Angels
special bond programme is bringing to Hassall Green Nature Reserve. Ecological surveys
between our carried out in the spring and summer of 2022 revealed the presence of Great
participants and Crested Newts and a flourishing population of grass snakes on site - the first
reported sightings since the Land Trust took over management in 2014.
the natural world
around them. Following completion of our beautiful timber roundhouse constructed by Green
Angels over the winter of 2021/22, this invaluable new space has provided a
fabulous base and shelter for many of our activities, from bushcraft to willow
weaving, wild food foraging to scything. We have begun regular drumming circle
meetings and outdoor yoga sessions, both of which are inspiring a very special
bond between our participants and the natural world around them.

To mark the Queen’s Jubilee, and with the help of our developing Friends of
Hassall Green Group, we commissioned a Jubilee sculpture – an acorn atop a
crown of leaves on a “totem pole” depicting the many native trees to be found at
the nature reserve. This beautiful work of art will help our visitors with their tree
identification skills.

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