Woodland Trust Scotland-Scottish Orienteering

Woodland Trust Scotland

SOA and the Woodland Trust have agreed to promote each others’ activities because of our common interest in using, enjoying and protecting Scottish woodlands. The Woodland Trust cares for and manages 80 woods in Scotland covering 8,500 hectares, stretching from Stranraer in the South up to Sutherland in the North, many of which we have been used for an event and/or have a permanent orienteering course.

VisitWoods

The Trust would be delighted to hear from you about your favourite wood, whether you enjoyed it at an orienteering event, on a permanent orienteering course or just out for a walk. However, the Woodland Trust’s knowledge of all the permanent orienteering courses located in woods across Scotland is not complete, and so they would also like to hear from you if you notice something missing from their VisitWoods website. This is a useful avenue through which to advertise our permanent orienteering courses.
Jillian Donnachie, Woodland Trust Scotland’s Scotland Project Officer, provides some background:

“What’s your favourite woodland for orienteering?

Roger Scrutton of SOA met with the Woodland Trust Scotland at a Scouts Scotland event recently and learned about a new project the Trust is leading called VisitWoods.

This collaborative project aims to encourage more people to enjoy woods & forests in Scotland and across the UK and is supported by Forestry Commission Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and People’s Postcode Lottery.

At the heart of the project is visitwoods.org.uk, a new interactive website showcasing thousands of woods you can visit in Scotland, including many woods with permanent orienteering courses.

Please help us share the wonders of woodland by rating your favourite orienteering wood and posting comments and/or photographs about it onto visitwoods.org.uk

Uploading your photos and comments is simple. Just go to visitwoods.org.uk, find your favourite wood (search by name or location), register and add your reviews and images to our blog or photo gallery.

We’d love to hear what makes your favourite orienteering wood special or indeed what makes any wood you know worth visiting (or not!) Hopefully it will inspire others to be active outdoors and try orienteering too!”