Our Aims & Objectives

We want you and your family to enjoy the beautiful woodlands. Whether it's going for walks or lending a helping hand to our volunteers who maintain the landscape (and the creatures that inhabit it), you are most welcome.

Some of our more detailed aims:

• Our principal aim is to maintain, regenerate and enhance Knolls Wood - reflecting its history, location and habitat, and for its potential amenity and education value
• Through our conservation efforts and educationally, to protect against the loss of nature (woodland and wildlife) in this area and more broadly - conscious of the impact of climate and nature crisis on our planet
• Preservation of its important specimen trees, where possible, enhancing the rest of this ornamental woodland in keeping with its character and landscape, and to support wildlife habitats
• To provide the public access to Knolls Wood and promote awareness of the mental and physical health benefits of a woodland haven
• To monitor and review long-term planning, involve the local community, and influence policy outcomes
• To record and preserve the history of Knolls Wood
• To work with the Greensand Trust (GST) and Central Beds Council (CBC), both practically and on management plans - setting and achieving objectives, to enhance and maintain Knolls Wood
• To prevent exploitation of, or threats to, Knolls Wood and local environment

Friends of Knolls Wood

Committee Members 

    Martin Purvis - Chairman
    Roger Seldon - Treasurer

Diane Liness - Secretary

   Jack Owens, Clive Atkins

Lisa McGee and Fiona Shillitto

Greensand Trust Ranger

Dave Williams

The Greensand Trust is an independent environmental charity that works with local communities and landowners to conserve and promote the distinctive landscape, wildlife and history of the Greensand Ridge and the wider surrounding area.