RIP Winston Weston – Macaroni Wood Legend

It’s with a heavy heart we had to say goodbye to a Macaroni Wood legend this year. Winston Weston, AKA Sweetbwoy, visited us every summer for years with GEMs and was a great charismatic character we always enjoyed seeing. In fact he was down with GEMs as...

New woodland path created

Marcus and Duncan who are employed part-time to help on work around the site have been as busy as ever and we are constantly being complemented on how Macaroni Wood has never looked better. They have created a new path through the wood to the left of the mobile home,...

Sense 5 weeks of residential

Sense Deafblind charity booked out Castree House for 3 consecutive weeks through the holidays team who provide respite breaks for parents. This was followed up by two more weeks of Sense with groups from Birmingham. They have created some brilliant blog posts...

Groups that stayed in April

It’s been in incredibly busy start to the year and we’re now at full capacity with new groups arriving every week, it’s great to see so many new faces enjoying Macaroni Wood. In April we’ve had the pleasure of hosting the following…...

New arrivals

At the beginning of March we put 30 fertilised eggs into an incubator and on Good Friday we welcomed 16 new Easter chicks to the woods. They’re extremely cute little fellows as you can see from the photos.