Our Voices

Glenan Community Forest is pleased to have won funding for a community orchard, as announced to all during the community AGM last November. The mix of fruit trees and shrubs will be planted next autumn/winter 2021-2022, but work on clearing space and erecting fencing for the orchard has already begun to meet the grant deadline. … Read more

“You can’t imagine what an effectual remedy it is for every sort of foolishness,” So ponders Levin, the protagonist of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Levin is talking about scything. This year Glenan’s beautiful meadow saw this ancient art resurrected by a small team of volunteers. It was not possible to scythe all the meadow, but next … Read more

If you were to read one paragraph of this blog entry, it would be this one. I would genuinely welcome an introduction, or indeed any message from FOGW members or local residents, as I seek to land in and serve the community I have become a part of. I can be contacted on 07375920508 or … Read more

Thank you to everyone who responded to our recent survey about eco-accommodation pods at Glenan. Your feedback is invaluable and has helped us to the shape the project. We thought it would be useful to give you an overview of the results and to let you know how we have responded to your feedback and … Read more

For Glenan Community Wood to be viable in the long term, we need to develop an income that can pay core costs and enable us to undertake activities to improve the woodland and maintain it for future generations. This core income is even more crucial in the current climate as grant income becomes harder and … Read more

Charity secures cash to acquire spectacular Argyll oak woodland Portavadie, Argyll and Bute, September 19, 2019: A rare surviving tract of Scotland’s once extensive, ancient oak woodland is about to be purchased by a charity based in Portavadie, Argyll and Bute. The Friends of Glenan Wood has secured a grant of £326,750 to purchase the … Read more

Angus Bevan of Integrated Woodland Management recently undertook a Plantations on Ancient Woodland Sites (PAWS) assessment of Glenan Wood funded by Woodland Trust. You can read the full report here. Restoration of plantations on ancient woodland sites is now considered to be good forestry practice. The aim is to restore areas of ancient woodland that … Read more

Come along to the Glenan Wood BioBlitz! It’s a great way to find out more about the incredible wildlife in Glenan Wood and start recording it. We’ll be running the event over two days. See the full programme below. On Friday pupils from the local primary schools will be joining us for the day-time activities. … Read more

We’re delighted to have been awarded Stage 1 Funding from the Scottish Land Fund. This development funding has enabled us to hire a consultant to produce a feasibility study and business plan and will also pay for a formal valuation of the woodland by a qualified district valuer. We selected our consultant, Duncan Bryden, through … Read more

We currently wish to commission a Feasibility Study and Business Plan to support our application to the Scottish Land Fund for the purchase of Glenan Wood via the Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) Community Asset Transfer Scheme (CATS). You can download the Invitation to Tender document here. The return date for tenders is 11th December 2017 … Read more