Sylva is proud to be taking part in the very first Big Give Charities Raffle and we hope you will be keen to support us – and of course you will be in with a chance of winning fantastic prizes! As a charity registered on the Big Give we can sell tickets to our supporters…
In the final act of the OneOak project, today we returned the OneOak memorial sculpture to its rightful home; to the woodland at Blenheim Palace. The sculpture, designed and made by Simon Clements, toured around all the OneOak exhibition venues during 2011 and 2012 but it was always destined to rest on top of the…
The new woodland editor system has been added to the site today. The system replaces the old home page in the woodland owner account, and combines editing features that were previously spread across several pages. Woodland owners can now edit the mapping for all of their sub-compartments in the same place. This development brings myForest…
The OneOak finale exhibition, hosted by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh last Autumn, was made possible thanks to the support of the Scottish Forestry Trust. As a condition of their funding a report about the exhibition has been submitted to the charity. It confirmed that over 49,000 members of the public were exposed to the exhibition…
A major milestone has been passed in the myForest Service. The total area of woodlands mapped across Britain now exceeds 20,000 hectares (or 49,421 acres). This represents 1192 woodlands owned by 731 individuals. We provide real-time essential statistics that can be viewed by anyone at any time, see: www.sylva.org.uk/myforest/about_stats.php
Sylva supports cutting-edge forest science in a partnership with the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford by offering a scholarship to DPhil students. We are seeking donors to help us secure our next scholar and, additionally, to help us raise an endowment fund to secure the scholarship in perpetuity. Our first scholar Kirsty Monk…
A film about the B&Q Good Woods project has been released. It features Sarah Greenaway from B&Q and Pooran Desai from our partners BioRegional who explain the ideas behind the project and our work objectives during 2013. They visit brickmaker Jim Matthews of H. G Matthews who uses timber to fire his kiln, harvested both…
Edit – we originally posted an incorrect download link, which we have now fixed. Apologies for any inconvenience. This is an evaluation report of the BeWILD Project, an ancient woodland management project delivered across Berkshire from 2008-2011. This Report pulls together the successes and achievements of the BeWILD Project, and aims to share our experiences…
Sylva is pleased to lend its support to a new movement known as Grown in Britain that has been launched with cross-Government support and the involvement of all parts of the forestry sector across Britain. Its aims are to: Create a new and stronger market ‘pull’ for the array of products derived from our forests…
Sylva staff have been helping the University of Oxford Harcourt Arboretum with plans to build a classroom shelter in their grounds at Nuneham Courtney, to help in the delivery of education to visitors of all ages. They have just announced an exciting opportunity for anyone interested in timber framing to get involved, under expert tuition,…