Donation from local company
We’re incredibly grateful to Vital Radiology Services for their generous £500 donation to support our environmental and wildlife work at the Trust. This contribution will go towards projects like our tern raft, helping to create safe nesting spaces for these migratory birds. It also supports our ongoing wildlife monitoring across the estate, enabling us to use trail cameras to better understand and protect the species that make their home on Trust land. Thanks to donations like this, we’re able to capture amazing moments, like this still from recent video footage of otters exploring the waterways – a powerful reminder of why this work matters.
Advertise Your Business at the Box Moor Trust Festival
Banner Display Opportunity – Just £200
Join us at this popular community event on Blackbirds Moor on 19th and 20th September and promote your business with a display banner for just £200. This fun-filled weekend attracts hundreds of visitors of all ages, offering a fantastic opportunity to gain local exposure and show your support for the Box Moor Trust, a respected local charity committed to conserving open space and heritage.
What’s Included for £200?
• Your business banner displayed prominently at the event
• Exposure to a large and engaged community audience
• Support for a well-loved local charity
Limited spaces available – reserve now!
Email: admin@boxmoortrust.org.uk
Tel: 01442 253300
Would you like a job working with animals?
If you love working outdoors, are interested in animal welfare and conservation, and want a role where no two days are the same, the role of Livestock Ranger might be for you. As a Ranger, you’ll get stuck into hands on conservation grazing, looking after cattle, sheep and goats while helping manage a beautifully varied estate. We are currently recruiting – check out our website for details (closing date 19th June).
Tongues of Fire (Gymnosporangium clavariiforme)
How impressive is this fungus, going by the spectacular name of ‘Tongues of Fire’, observed and photographed by Will Atkins on the juniper bushes at Roughdown Common during May? It is a species of rust fungus which alternately infects juniper and hawthorn. Juniper is the primary host, on which the fungus produces these orange tentacle-like fruiting bodies. These release spores that travel on the wind until they infect a hawthorn tree. On the secondary host, the fungus produces yellowish depressions on the leaves and infects the fruit, which sprouts a medusa-like head of spore tubes. The spores must then infect a juniper to complete the life cycle. It does not cause serious damage to junipers, but hawthorns can suffer significant loss of haw production.
