Love The Forest

16/10/2025

An easy way to support the New Forest Trust and the Forest

New Forest Trust is offering you the chance to win big prizes and help raise much needed funds.

10/04/2025

Working to preserve, sustain and enhance the unique beauty and conservation value of the New Forest for future generations

02/03/2025

It was a privilege for one of our trustees to spend a very sunny morning with 20+ young people with the Wild New Forest Wildlife Explorers today - we explored the heathland and holly holms, saw hawfinches and fungi, watched and learned about bird ringing, and found a rare lichen running spider and an adder, - all fuelled courtesy of New Forest Shortbread!

The Trust is delighted to support this fabulous initiative 🍃🤙

12/02/2025

Had a great meeting with the The New Forest Trust this morning! 🌳💚 🫏🐴 What an incredible charity dedicated to securing the future of the New Forest. Excited to explore opportunities to get involved and support their amazing work.

30/01/2025

Yellow-legged hornet awareness

We have been contacted by the British Beekeepers' Association, who are supporting Defra and the National Bee Unit with their programme of eradication of the invasive species, the yellow-legged 'Asian' hornet.

The south and south east of England are particularly vulnerable to yellow-legged hornet incursions due to their proximity to northern France, where the insect is now established. Furthermore, large areas of land such as forests, national parks and AONBs, or areas close to access points for yellow-legged hornets, such as ports and ferry terminals, are at increased risk - so the New Forest has a bit of a perfect storm of circumstances for the hornets to get a foothold in the area!

We are sharing some new awareness materials created for the upcoming spring season - please have a look and share amongst your contacts.

One of the biggest challenges for the National Bee Unit last year was a record number of false reports, with tens of thousands of images of the wrong insect - mainly the European hornet - being reported to the Asian Hornet Watch app. Their goal for this year is to improve the public's awareness on how to correctly
identify and report yellow-legged 'Asian' hornets to help the authorities streamline the process and free up more time to respond to actual sightings.

Thank you !

23/01/2025

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm29479l9xyo

Ponies are being lured away from busy roads in the New Forest with bowls of salt.

21/01/2025

"We are a community - we are spread out across the Forest but commoning is the common thread which keeps us all together and interested."

New Forest commoner Bill Howells shares his story about what life is like in the Forest and some of the challenges that come alongside it ⬇️

https://www.realnewforest.org/a-real-community-but-not-without-its-challenges-life-of-a-new-forest-commoner/

05/01/2025

Join 2.4m people raising free donations via 7,000+ shops & sites.

23/12/2024

Nominations for the New Forest Food and Drink Awards 2025 are now open - please support our local champions by nominating your favourites - it's quick and easy and could make a real difference to a small business

Thank you ! 🏆🍓🍰🍺🥩🍴🍅🥬🍯

Coming soon!

10/12/2024

Send Christmas eCards and donate the cost of cards and stamps to New Forest Trust. With DontSendMeACard every e-card you send saves time, helps a charity, and reduces carbon.

26/11/2024

Thank you Lymington Times - we're very proud to be finalists in the Charity of the Year category 🤞🍂

26/11/2024

We're very grateful to The Rockingham Arms in Wellow for raising money for the Trust at their monthly quiz night this week