Yesterday the Woodland Trust and the National Trust met up to celebrate our partnership at Fingle Woods.
Helen Ghosh (National Trust Director General) Becky Speight (Woodland Trust Chief Executive) at Fingle Woods beside the Iron Age fort Wooston Castle
Formally signing the partnership agreement on the bonnet of a land rover!
An exchange of gifts – NT Lead Ranger Mick Jones explains how these ‘shrink pots’ were made from birch logs from the woods by local artist Sean Hellman. The design is based on an iron age technique which makes the woodland connection to Wooston Castle
I think this banner sums it up pretty well
In the afternoon funders, donors and members of the public were invited to the Fingle Festival.
Local people making music
A heavy horse demonstration
Pole lathing
Charcoal making
Dave Rickwood the WT project manager at Fingle talks to a story teller who entertained our visitors
(Dave’s the one on the right)
Thanks you to everyone who attended and made yesterday so special. More photos from the day can be seen here.
A Dartmoor blog 
We spent several hours at Fingle Woods on Friday and thoroughly enjoyed talking with Woodland Trust volunteers and learning about the perils to the deer population; how to make a Swedish Candle; making charcoal; and meeting Trelawney the magnificent Shire horse. Well done to everyone who helped to create this event in such splendid surroundings.