Memorial within Woodhead Community Centre (old school)

Judges of The Scottish Community of the Year. 

Woodhead and Windyhills Community Trust Ltd. is one of nineteen finalists in the Calor Gas Awards. Results to be announced at a ceremony in Edinburgh on Tuesday 21st November 2006.

13th July 2006. Get out and get active community walk. Approximately forty turned out for a very enjoyable walk with Jackie Cumberbirch from the Forestry Commission. Free pedometres were handed out to encourage everyone to step out on a regular basis. Information leaflets on trees were provided. 

11th July Turriff Rotary Club with Chairman Douglas Purdie.

Rotary members and their families enjoyed the sunshine on their evening visit to Woodhead wood. Directors of the Community Trust acted as Guides.

 May 22nd 2006. Bob Callow, from Manchester. A botanist with specialist knowledge in grasses, rushes, sedges and mosses was very impressed with the flora at Windyhills, adding many of the spagnum mosses in the raised blanket bogs to our species list.

Cuminestown Art Group had an evening visit to Windyhills with a view to having an on site painting session. Unfortunately the weather put a damper on that aspect but they very quickly adapted to a photographic evening instead.

May 2006 David Brown our new Formartine ranger enjoyed a guided walk round Windyhills with Flick Ibbotson. David is very interested in helping schools with ecology and would be delighted to bring primary classes to visit this natural habitat.

Members of the Scottish Council of Volunteer Organisations (SCVO) visited Windyhills on a half-day tour round three sites in Formartine and Garioch as part of the 2005 Scottish Rural Services Conference held at Thainstone House Hotel, Inverurie on the 26-27th September 2005. They also visited Tarves Heritage Centre and Wood Recylability at Pitmedden.

Full details of the conference can be found at www.ruralgateway.org.uk

Woodhead and Windyhills Community Trust Ltd.  The trust is one of the nineteen finalists in the Calor Gas Awards for 2006. Final judging at Windyhills on Tuesday 19th September 2006.

Ken Watt a Hoverfly specialist has added 17 species of hoverflies to the Windyhills records.

Bat recording at Windyhills with Isobel Davidson on Fri 2nd or Sat. 3rd June. at approx 9.30 p.m. at Community Centre. A very interesting and enjoyable evening. 

The Community Trust held a plant sale on Saturday 10th June 2006 10:30-12:30 at Woodhead Community Centre. We would like to thank everyone who came along to support us and help us raise much needed funds, over £300 in all. A big thank you also goes to all those who helped out on the day by selling plants, making teas and other refreshments, and helping to make the sale a success.

Other Fundraising News:

New cards depicting pictures taken at Windyhills are now available for sale in the Post Office, Fyvie and Methlick.

A very successful ceilidh and raffle was held in November in Fyvie British Legion. Our funds were boosted and everyone had a great time dancing to the Fyvie Folk Club band.

This new cairn has been built with Windyhills stones and is situated in the field behind the car park at the Woodhead Community Centre at the main entrance to the woods. It incorporates an information board showing the layout of the woods and the paths with information on species to look out for.

David Parnaby, from the RSBP in Aberdeen, led two groups of enthusiastic, early rising, bird watchers through the Woodhead and Windyhills woods on Sunday the 8th May 2005 to listen to the dawn chorus.

The first walk began just after first light at 4:30am, followed by a later walk at 10am.