The quite heavy bureaucracy of Community Programme meant we used the equivalent of a fair few of the trees we planted to complete the paperwork: …
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Lots of firsts
My time at Hollybush involved a lot of firsts. I had so many lovely experiences there that I won’t forget. It would be hard to …
Riding the Tiger
Transcribed from an audio interview at Ruskin Land
In 1973 John Iles was a mechanical engineering graduate trainee with the CEGB (Central Electricity Generating Board) …
Biscuits, Tea, Coffee and Volunteers
I worked in Wakefield and then Kirklees for BTCV I came back to Hollybush after I´d had my first child in 2006 managing a Heritage …
A most unladylike career
I quite liked the idea of working outside but conservation didn´t really exist as a career then and at my all-girls school I remember being …
A new start
From an audio interview
I was made aware of Hollybush in November last year, by a charity called Engage who had been helping me; they …