Changes at the top
Several changes to the Sylva Foundation board of trustees are announced today. We welcome Sir Martin and Lady Wood as our first Patrons, Dr Nick Brown steps down as trustee, and Dr Robin Buxton is appointed to the Board.
Several changes to the Sylva Foundation board of trustees are announced today. We welcome Sir Martin and Lady Wood as our first Patrons, Dr Nick Brown steps down as trustee, and Dr Robin Buxton is appointed to the Board.
In September there will be an archaeological excavation at the Sylva Wood Centre. This is your chance to get involved! Either just come along to one of our Open Days, and/or volunteer to join the archaeologists during the two-week excavation from 11-22 September (excluding Monday 18th). You can join the team and help dig, or identify, sort and clean finds.
During this two-day course at the Sylva Wood Centre with award-winning boat builder Colin Henwood, you will learn how to shape a single canoe paddle from Ash using hand tools.
A one-day course to learn how to work with green wood using a pole lathe and make something to take home at the end of the day. Learn with expert green woodworker and experienced tutor Peter Wood.
Following the sell-out success of this course in February, we are pleased to offer a new one-day course: learn how to make a green wood stool. Working with green wood using simple hand tools, by the end of the day you will make a ‘basic’ three-legged stool under the expert tuition of green woodworker Peter Wood.
Over the last 18 months Sylva Foundation has been working with the Deer Initiative, grant-funded by Forestry Commission England and Natural England, to develop new functionality in myForest that will allow land owners and managers to create Deer Management Plans and collate annual monitoring data.
A two-minute timelapse film showing the first six months work creating a new forest at the Sylva Wood Centre. Watch out for archaeology, farming, surveying, tree planting, public volunteers, and emerging wildflowers.
Last week the National Tree Improvement Strategy was launched by the Future Trees Trust. Sylva Foundation is proud to be a supporting partner.
The Future of Forestry was this week’s theme on the BBC Radio 4 flagship environmental programme Costing the Earth. Reporter Tom Heap visited the Sylva Wood Centre to interview Sylva CEO Gabriel Hemery and one of our resident furniture makers.
We are looking forward to opening the Sylva Wood Centre to the public again during Oxfordshire Artweeks 2017. From 6-14 May come and meet our amazing resident craftspeople, plus invited artists, and this year for the first time also enjoy a stroll around the newly-planted Wittenhams Community Orchard and Future Forest.