We are pleased to be part of a Grown in Britain consortium, led by English Woodlands Timber, that has been awarded funding by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to explore how hardwood supply chains in the UK could be improved.
Last weekend the Good Woods team headed to Cumbria to deliver training and advice to local woodlands owners from the Grange and Meathop Woodlanders Group.
Join us for our first public woodworking course at the Sylva Wood Centre – Saturday 20th June. Aimed at people who want to learn woodworking skills with limited equipment.
Owners, managers and community groups caring for woodlands in Oxfordshire are being asked to take part in an important survey. Deadline extended to June 25th.
Sign up for early-bird notification of an auction of special prints from The New Sylva featuring Sarah Simblet’s tree portraits, botanical details and woodland scenes. All proceeds to our charitable work.
The Sylva Foundation is working in partnership with the British Ecological Society to run a half-day CPD and consultation workshop to establish opportunities and constraints to teaching and learning forest ecology in secondary schools.
An important conference will take place on October 1st concerning the challenges facing our woodlands from environmental change. Organised jointly by the Royal Forestry Society and the Woodland Trust, we are pleased to have been invited to contribute.
Our plans to support more business incubation, apprentices and work placements at the Sylva Wood Centre took a step forward this week, thanks to the generous long-term loan of seven quality work benches.
We enjoyed a fantastic opening weekend as part of Artweeks. It was wonderful to meet so many of our new neighbours and the local community.
Following on from the launch of Version 3.0 of myForest, we have launched video guidance on how to use the various myForest applications and features.