Community & Events

Our quiz night on Saturday was quite a night, raising nearly £700 for planting willow and fruit trees. The indomitable quiz masters Andy and Amanda stretched our brains, got us talking and taught us lots of intriguing facts. We learned, for example, that Argentina means the land of silver, that Venus turns in the opposite direction to all the other planets in our solar system, that Barbados means the land of bearded ones, that we have no muscles in our forefingers, and that t

Look out for our new calendars, filled with beautiful photos taken throughout the year by volunteers on Long Lands Common and Knaresborough Forest Park. Price £7, available at: Butter Cup community café, Butter Lane, Knaresborough (the ginnel between the market square and the High Street), Wed/Thur/Fri afternoons Twig & Ink, 19 High Street, Knaresborough Classy Chaos vintage shop, Green Dragon Yard, Knaresborough. Huge thanks to these venues for supporting us by stocking our

We had another lovely turnout for our regular ramble the other weekend - a mix of familiar faces and new ones. It’s always good to see people coming together, chatting, sharing ideas and seeing the landscape change with the season. The air’s getting cooler now, the last cuts are being taken and the trees are starting to turn. There’s a sense of everything slowing down - but also of things quietly starting to grow beneath the surface. A few new ideas began to take shape on thi

The searing heat of the summer seems a long time ago now, but we are looking back to our Knaresborough Forest Day event on 13 August....

Ten LLC board members were invited to attend a garden party organised for volunteers from across North Yorkshire.  The occasion, held at ...

Philanthropist Gayla LeMaire once said, "Volunteers are paid in six figures... S-M-I-L-E-S." On the morning of June 29, 2025, our team of...

During our recent celebration event, we were thrilled to be presented with a mosaic featuring Knaresborough Forest, created as a...

We were delighted and honoured to be awarded the Environment Cup at the Knaresborough Town Council Mayor-making ceremony on 22 May. We...

Keen gardeners from Knaresborough and Harrogate gathered at the Centre on Gracious Street on Wednesday evening to learn from the...

George and Geoff suggested that a visit to the Three Hagges Project near York would give us useful insights into the way forward with KFP....

Why we ask you to keep dogs on a lead in Knaresborough Forest Park. If you have walked on or near Knaresborough Forest Park recently, you...

'The Belmont Oak' This morning, a few of us were invited for a walk around Harrogate Golf Club, led by Head Greenkeeper Ken Ward....

Another meeting of the “Last of the Summer Wine” volunteer group today in beautiful sunshine on the first day of spring. A cracked cast...

Yesterday, we held our second guided walk, and once again, the turnout was incredible. It fills us with so much hope to see just how many...

Our self-styled "Last of the Summer Wine" volunteer group, Andrew, Tony, Roger & Geoff, met on site today and braved the sleety showers....

There has been a lot of activity on the land recently, as teams from GSS Architecture joined us for two days of volunteering under their...

We were thrilled to welcome 45 of our supporters on to the site on a rather dismal February day. They were met near the river by members of the KFP team, who led them up the Beryl Burton Cycleway, along Bilton Hall Drive and down the footpath next to the Jubilee Allotments, explaining along the way which fields form part of Knaresborough Forest Park, and what our plans are for them. The tour ended up at the farm buildings where the walkers were offered mulled apple juice or w

A small group of stalwart volunteers turned out on two wet and dreary days over the last two weekends to lay a hedge on the field which...

This is the first entry on our newly revamped website - we hope you enjoy reading them! They will be sent to anyone who has clicked...