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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

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    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

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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

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    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

    May2017

    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

    Download our December 2012 newsletter

                  • 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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