Celebrating community and nature at our 2025 community get-together
Karen Laver, Lost Woods team leader for Action in Rural Sussex, reflects on our recent Community Get-Together and how you can get involved in the Lost Woods festival 2026.
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Karen Laver, Lost Woods team leader for Action in Rural Sussex, reflects on our recent Community Get-Together and how you can get involved in the Lost Woods festival 2026.
One of the newest conservation groups to have been set up in the Low Weald, the New Friends of Scrase Valley Orchard are helping to take care of a community orchard in the heart of Haywards Heath.
We've been teaming up with local community groups to help spread the word about bats, which rely on woodlands to hunt and roost. Michael from the Lost Woods team explains more in his blog.
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