Guardians UK
The Hub
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Guardians UK is a registered charity in England and Wales.
We are based in the London Borough of Southwark and Pulborough, West Sussex.
Our mission is to:
education
Advance forest-based research and education
aimed at climate action, sustainability
and nature protection
Health
Promote health and healthy recreation by facilitating public access to green spaces through forest-related activities
nature protection
Support protection and regeneration of native woodland in Southeast London and West Sussex
Our Hubs
Grange Lane Hub
Southeast London​​​​​​
Located on a landstrip between Dulwich Wood and Grange Lane Allotments, Grange Lane Tree Rescue Hub is a 0.8 hectare area we protect and regenerate. Leased by GWW from the Dulwich Estate, the Hub contains a shed, a hut, several picnic tables, a community space, an eco-loo and a small pond. The land supports a large tree nursery containing 1,500 native trees, which we are growing from seed or which we have rescued from nearby lands, as well as an orchard and herb garden. We are also working on the regeneration of a dumpsite known as Plot 20, where we plan to create a Soil School.
Old Beard's Wood
South Downs National Park, West Sussex​​​​​​
Located near Pulborough in West Sussex, we are custodians of this woodland. This site is dedicated for immersive learning, educational activities, wellbeing and environmental work.
reforestation sites
The thousands of trees we grow at our two hubs are intended to be planted in sites dedicated to reforestaton and regeneraton across the UK, in both urban and rural settings.
Two dedicates sites, both considered priority habitats under the priority habitat UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) and Annex I EU Habitats Directive, are our main focus.
Pen Garn-Wen
Title no.: CYM596072
Location: latitude & longitude 52.118993, -4.377412
Size: 9 ha
Brief description: Clearfelled Sitka spruce plantation in transition to native broadleaf woodland with heathland glades, potential site for marsh fritillary butterfly (UK and European threatened species, protected under Appendix 2 of Berne Convention). Potential site for Atlantic ("Celtic") temperate rainforest/oak woodland restoration. rainforest in Wales
NVC types:
W17 Quercus petraea – Betula pubescens – Dicranum majus woodland (Sessile oak – downy birch – bryophyte-rich) on acid soils.
W11 Quercus petraea – Betula pubescens – Oxalis acetosella woodland.
Old Beards Wood
Lowland beech and yew woodland” — a priority habitat under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) and Annex I habitat Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests under the EU Habitats Directive.2.
Beech forest in West Sussex, South Downs area, are UK National Vegetation Classification (NVC):
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W12 Fagus sylvatica – Mercurialis perennis woodland (Beech with dog's mercury) – common on calcareous soils.
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Friends of the Great North Wood
Our land is located within the historic Great North Wood, which is the nearest ancestral woodland to any capital city centre in Europe, and a unique natural heritage, home to rare native species like the Jersey Tiger Moth, Wood anemone, Whitebeam and several species of bats.
Many species of special scientific interest can be found in Dulwich Woods and Sydenham Hill Woods-- the largest remaining fragment of the Great North Wood. From left to right : Common Whitebeam (Sorbus aria), Jersey Tiger Moth (Euplagia quadripunctaria) and Wood Anemone (Anemonoides nemorosa).
About the Great North Wood
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Community
Great North Wood Heritage Trail Campaign
Grange Lane Tree Nursery
Gypsy Heritage of the Great North Wood
Funded by Heritage Fund
African Heritage
Funded by Southwark Council
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Peck River Clean-ups
Treemoot Festival
Funded by Arts Council England
Soundwood
London and Leeds
with Leeds Conservatoire and University of Manchester
Little Guardians
with Leeds Canal Connections and University of Lancaster
Heritage Walks
The Weald Pilgrimages
Volunteering
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We have volunteer days every two months where we invite members of the community, or anyone intersted, to spend a Saturday with us at the Tree Rescue Hub working on the land, learning about trees, soils, water and the ricj biodiversity of the Great North Wood.
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Guardians UK is a registered charity in England and Wales
Charity Number 1214169
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Grange Lane Tree Rescue Hub
London
SE21 7LH
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0447713757591
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Email: info@guardiansworldwide.org