Make a canoe paddle 26-27Jan2018
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.
Pole lathe course 17Feb2018
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.
Green wood stool course 11 Nov 2017
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.
myForest to support deer management
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 future forest in the making
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.
A national tree improvement strategy
Last week the National Tree Improvement Strategy was launched by the Future Trees Trust. Sylva Foundation is proud to be a supporting partner.
BBC investigates future forests
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.
Your invitation to Artweeks 2017 at Sylva Wood Centre
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.
Future Forest springs to life
From a bare field in January to a new growing woodland in April boasting 7,500 trees and a wildflower meadow, we reflect on four amazing months of activity with our new Forest Friends.
Kubota UK supports the Sylva Future Forest
Kubota launched its partnership with the charity by taking part in an ‘Earth, Wind and Fire’ event at the Sylva Foundation Wood Centre, situated in the South Oxfordshire countryside.