On Sunday 7th December 2025 Lea Bridge Conservation Volunteers will be coppicing in Horseshoe Thicket on Walthamstow Marshes.

This month’s task will involve coppicing trees. This ancient woodland management technique will involve the use of the 4-cut felling method, shedding, brashing and dead hedging. The brash wood will be used to create dead hedges to control access to the regrowth area. The larger wood pieces will be used to build habitat piles, which increases the biodiversity of this urban woodland by becoming lying deadwood ecosystems. No experience is required; training will be provided.

Traditionally coppiced wood would be used in green woodworking by bodgers to make spoons, bowls, chairs etc. See below, if you would like to learn green woodworking in East London.

All(18+) are welcome to join us and no experience is required. If You are curious about what happens on a LBCV task, one of our regular volunteers did the following live video on October’s 2020 task

Please wear appropriate layered clothing and stout footwear for the task and weather, it’s going to be cold. We will be working in an area with bramble and nettles, so closed shoes/boots and long trousers and sleeves would be best. Kneeling maybe required, so if you have knee pads, please bring them.