Sometimes looking at figures visually can be fun and revealing which is what David Hammond FHT Treasurer with the help of Trustee and Bookkeeper Christopher Raymont have done here by putting together simplified figures from 2023-24 data on the trust’s income and expenditure. What are some of the observations that we can draw from this […]
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My Story as a FHT Volunteer
My name is Mitch and I am a 23 year old young man from the Lake District who has been living in the FHT Shepherd’s Hut and volunteering for the charity for the last two months. I would like to share with you a little of my positive journey over the last couple of months. […]
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Chair’s Report – Spring/Summer 2024
It has been another whirlwind spring season as far as the Findhorn Hinterland Trust and the various activities on the land go. The ‘When the Bough Breaks’ film, which starred our trustee Alan Watson Featherstone and the rewilding work he was previously involved in with Trees for Life, took place on the 16th March in […]
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News from the Land – Spring Early Summer 2024
It’s a damp day out there – so perfect for spending some time writing for our Newsletter… The trees we planted on the land last autumn and this spring are celebrating the life-giving rain after the warm sunny weeks we’ve just had. The transformation out there at this time of the year always blows me […]
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Findhorn Hinterland Biodiversity Workshop
This one day workshop was held on the 1st June 2024 with 10 participants attending including Hugh Andrews who submitted this article. There was much praise by all for this event – so much so that they wanted to encourage others to make a note and join when it is offered again! JC What a […]
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Meet the Team – Alan Watson Featherstone.
How did you get so involved in nature and nature conservation? I have had a long history of developing a deep relationship with nature which I think really started in a serious way back when I travelled abroad. In 1972 when I was 18 I travelled in Europe and the following year I went to […]
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Exploring FHT Sustainability and Resilience
As a well trusted and valued organisation within the Park Ecovillage and the Findhorn/Forres area and beyond, the FHT has much to be grateful for and proud of – its work concerning local practical conservation, opportunities for environmental education, helping build local community and providing recreational resources on the land it manages goes from strength […]
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Dune Restoration Project Update
Thank you to everyone who donated to the Big Give appeal!
This enables us to go ahead with the first year of dune restoration work, scheduled for this coming winter. This involves the clearance of around half a hectare of carefully selected gorse, to create new bare sand habitats for rare and threatened sand dune species. It will also help to reintroduce the natural process of windblown sand.
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Vision Quest – A Support for Life Transition
21st-31st September Spiral into the centre The centre of the wheel I am the weaver, I am the woven one I am the dreamer, I am the dream Song of the natives Holger and Gesa Heiten were the leaders of this vision quest that I have just completed that took place on land managed by […]