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These projects enabled Miner2Major to work with local communities to help better understand, explore and protect Sherwood Forest.

  • Celebrate Sherwood

    Celebrate Sherwood was an exciting project that saw Miner2Major attend some of the local festivals across the scheme area to promote the work we were doing.

  • Have A Go!

    Miner2Major’s exciting informal learning offer.

  • SherwoodAbility

    This project delivered formal and accredited learning to help people to understand and care for the nature and heritage of Sherwood Forest.

  • Better Habitats

    Sherwood Forest is a mosaic of habitats with heathland, oak-birch woodland and wood pasture, alongside extensive areas of arable farmland and commercial conifer plantations.

  • Connecting Trails

    There are over 193km of rights of way within the Miner2Major scheme area.

  • Saving Sherwood’s Special Species

    Sherwood Forest is home to some very special and iconic species that are characteristic of the area’s unique combination of habitats, and which occur in few other places around the UK.

  • Sherwood’s Landscape of Trees and Hedges

    Trees and hedgerows are a vital component of Sherwood’s landscape

  • The Veiled Landscape

    The project helped to better understand the archaeology of Sherwood through commissioning new LiDAR.

  • Heritage Buildings

    Sherwood is home to a wide variety of building types.

  • Century of Change

    The period 1850-1950 saw the landscape of Sherwood change dramatically, mines were sunk, railway lines built, and new towns and villages created.

  • People of Sherwood

    This is an exciting project that sought to tell the stories of ten people that lived in, worked in or had an impact on Sherwood Forest.

  • Community Grant Scheme

    This grant programme was for community groups to deliver projects aimed at celebrating the diverse wildlife, important habitats and rich heritage of Sherwood Forest

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