National Hedgelaying Society
"Committed to conserving hedgerows through traditional skills"
Patron: HRH The Prince of Wales
Training Opportunities . . .
Information on training courses will be added here as it becomes available. For general information about training please contact: nhls.training@googlemail.com
Wirral Countryside Volunteers (WCV)
Two hedgelaying training events in the Cheshire-Merseyside area.
1) Introductory hedgelaying talk by Paul Loughnane (WCV) 'Hedgelaying: What
it is and how to do it':
In association with Friends of Greasby Library. Thursday 12th Jan,
7:00pm at Greasby Library, Wirral, CH49 3AT.
Tickets are free but must be booked in advance through Greasby
Library: Tel (0151) 677 5714; Email greasby@wirral-libraries.net
Map: http://www.wirral.gov.uk/my-services/find-us/libraries/greasby
2) Hedgelaying on the Wirral Way with the Wirral Countryside
Volunteers: (with support from the Cheshire Ranger service)
Saturday 25th Feb, from 09:30, Parkgate/ Leighton.
Join the fun and challenge of laying a mature hedge. Experienced
hedgelayers will help get new volunteers started.
Free, new volunteers very welcome.
Please contact Paul Loughnane to book and for further details: Email: J.P.Loughnane@liverpool.ac.uk
Phone: 0151 645 8937
WCV website: http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~jpl/wcv/index.htm
WCV facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wirralcountrysidevolunteers
Hedge- laying training days in South Yorkshire
on SAT SUN 4th & 5th and 18th &19th February 2012
For more information or to book a place contact
Phil Rowell tel: 01226297233
or email: p.rowell@ymail.com
web site: www.countryment.com
The Rutland Training Group are organising (subject to demand), a two-day hedge-cutting course, which is sponsored by the Cotesmore Hedge Cutting Society. Anyone interested in attending should contact The Rutland Training Group Secretary, Jacqui Griffin, on 01572 770 614 or the Cotesmore Society's secretary on 01572 755 744.
West Berks and Oxon Training Group
Hedgelaying taster session with John Savings
Saturday 3rd December 2011 and Saturday 3rd March 2012
at Hengrove Farm, Appleton, Oxfordshire
Contact: wbotraininggroup@btinternet.com
www.westberksandoxontraining.co.uk
South of England Hedge Laying Society
Reg Charity N0 1046124
Promoting the craft of hedge laying, training, competitions and countryside
management
Training in Hedge Laying
An Improvers Training Day is to be held on the 14th January 2012, contact
Mike Parrott for more details.
Our Annual Competition is in early spring on the 25th February 2012.
Contact the Competition secretary for more details:
Jim Vantassel 01483 416210
The South of England Hedge Laying Day is to be held in the spring 2012.
More details will be published nearer the time.
Please note to take part in any of these events you need to join the society
so you are covered by the Society's insurance. Membership is £10 per
annum.
To get booking information for these events, please print out & send a completed membership application form to Dick Morley.
The Membership Secretary:
Dick Morley, South Tile Barn, Beacon Road, Ditchling, Hassocks, East Sussex,
BN6 8XB
Tel 01273 843633
South of England Hedge Laying Society
Reg Charity N0 1046124
Promoting the craft of hedge laying, training, competitions and countryside
management
Membership Application Form
(click the link above for a printable version of the form)