A design for a cutting-edge timber structure, inspired by nature, scooped the honours and the £3,000 top prize in TRADA’s National Student Design Competition, which this year was hosted by Sylva Foundation at the Sylva Wood Centre.
We are pleased to offer two half-day workshops in the autumn, designed for Forest School Leaders and any educators interested in learning new skills with wood.
TRADA has announced the shortlist for this year’s National Student Design Competition, which challenges student designers to explore the science of timber as a modern construction material for a design for the Sylva Wood Centre.
We are delighted that funding has been awarded to help us create a new community orchard on our land at the Sylva Wood Centre.
In February Sylva’s Director for Forestry, Paul Orsi, visited Argyll to find out how the myForest service could help an innovative group of woodlands owners. A new suite of tools has now been developed and is being piloted by the Argyll Small Wood Co-operative.
We are excited to launch a new scheme that will not only help the charity through regular giving, but allow people to build a lasting affinity with a new woodland by sponsoring their own plot: the Future Forest Friend scheme.
Oxfordshire Artweeks 2016 at the Sylva Wood Centre was a great success, attracting about 1000 visitors during the nine days, plus a day dedicated for local schools to visit.
The very first WoodWords™ event at Sylva Wood Centre last weekend was sold out! 150 people were inspired by our enthralling speakers, all of whom passionate advocates for trees, woodland and the process of making in wood.
As part of the publicity surrounding the relaunch of AshTag today, Sylva Foundation chief executive Gabriel Hemery was interviewed by Paul Hawkins for the BBC World Service.
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