Welcome to the Northwest Ecological Trust website. Here you will find information about our work developing and managing Gorse Hill Nature Reserve, its wildlife and habitats, various surveys, latest news and how to find us.
The Trust values and relies upon its subscription supporters and volunteers so you can find information about how to subscribe, how to become a volunteer and the sorts of things you can do.
This website is regularly updated so please keep checking as we will be adding more information about the flora and fauna of Gorse Hill, latest news and more photos.
Our new website is up and running!
It just needs a few tweaks to bring it up to date and once ready this website will close.
Please save our new website address
You can also find us on our official Facebook page click here
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DATES FOR YOUR 2024 DIARY:
APPLE WEEKEND 21st and 22nd September 12noon – 4pm.
Please come and join us in our apple harvest celebrations
Tours of our heritage orchard
Opportunities to taste and buy
Sales of Apple Juice
Refreshments in the Cabin Café
Free Parking
Donations Welcome
IMPORTANT NEWS:
Our Cabin Café is open Sunday afternoons from 1pm to 4pm.
Refreshments of tea, coffee and cake will be on sale and Cabin Wood will also be open for you to stroll around.
Admission and car parking are free. Dogs on leads are welcome.
We look forward to seeing you.
We are open on Wednesdays and Saturdays 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. so that visitors can enjoy walking around Cabin Wood and the adjacent meadow.
Information –
Our Privacy Policy has been updated to show:
We can now accept debit or credit card payments so when you visit it is easier for you to join as a supporter, renew your subscription or buy any of our items for sale.
(27.2.22)
FOR SALE
Visit our Information and Sales Centre to see what we have
Seasonal produce on sale, grown in our own polytunnels.
Gorse Hill Orchards Apple Juice only £3.00 for a 500 ml bottle. Our delicious pasteurised pure apple juice is made from our Heritage Apples grown in our orchards.
Bird Seed. Good quality Wild Bird Feeder Seed 2.5 kg bag £4.00
Kindling. £6 per net bag (When available)
Solitary Bee Houses – provide a home for these essential garden pollinators. Now only £20
LATEST UPDATES (last six months)
9.9.24 – Home Page – Apple Weekend advert
2.6.24 – Home Page – Events Decoupage Workshop added
12.5.24 – Home Page – Events – revised information re NGS event
8.4.24 – About Us page – Privacy Policy – new website details entered in policy and dated
1.4.24 – Home Page – Easter opening details removed
28.3.24 – Home Page – new website update and link. Easter opening information
11.3.24 – Home Page – events – snowdrop season and decoupage workshops deleted
20.2.24 – Home Page – events – Decoupage workshops
26.1.24 – Home Page – 2024 events added
18.12.23 – Home Page – Café information, delete December Santa event
3.12.23 – Home Page – December
16.10.23 – Home Page – advert for sale of logs removed, we currently do not have any available
2.10.23 – Out and About at Gorse Hill – Apple Weekend
13.9.23 – Home Page – Café opening from 8 October
Registered Charity: 327788
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