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2026 Butterfly Monitoring
25.03.26
Butterfly monitoring is an important part of FOHW work on Hell Wath. Butterfly monitoring will begin in mid-April and take place weekly until the end of September, with each 7 day window beginning on a Saturday. Monitoring will be undertaken by teams of volunteers walking a designated transect walk around...
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Annual General Meeting
21.01.26
Thanks to everyone who took the time to attend our AGM on 15th January 2026. Meeting Minutes: You can read the minutes of the meeting by clicking here. Annual Reports: The Annual Report and Annual Financial Statement were approved at the meeting and these have now been submitted to the...
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Litter Pick
09.01.26
Thanks to everyone who took part in our first event of 2026. As you can see a lot of litter was picked up across the site by our lovely volunteers who turned out on a sunny but chilly Sunday morning. Hell Wath is much tidier as a result of your...
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Become A Trustee
15.12.25
Do You love Hell Wath ? The Friends of Hell Wath are looking for someone to become a Trustee – could it be you ? You could become one of the five Trustees who run our charity and help safeguard the future of Hell Wath for nature and people. If...
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Fungi Finds
20.11.25
Thanks to Dawn Madeley for sending these beautiful pictures of fungi found on Hell Wath. Featured above is Flammulina velutipes, known as Velvet shanks
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Archaeological Digs
25.07.25
Thanks to the Ripon History and Archaeology Tribe (RHATS) and FOHW volunteers for undertaking a number of archaeological digs on Hell Wath. There have been some interesting finds from the medieval to the military era. These will now been cleaned up and prepared for display at future events.
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Visit To Foxglove Covert
18.06.25
With transport kindly funded by the Skell Valley Project, a small group of FOHW volunteers undertook a site visit to the nature reserve at Foxglove Covert, Catterick. Foxglove Covert was one of the Plantlife UK project sites, a project set up to establish and/or improve woodland meadows within existing community...
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M A G Site Walk Notes
18.06.25
Our last MAG meeting took the form of a walk around Hell Wath to discuss this year’s plan for tackling Himalayan Balsam and thistles. The notes from this walk and accompanying grid map can be veiwed by clicking the links below. Activities taking place over the coming months can be...
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