nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
Wood School stools shortlisted for prestigious Wood Awards
We are very proud and excited that the Ebworth stools have been shortlisted for the Production Made Furniture category of this year’s Wood Awards.
We are delighted to welcome Phoebe Oldfield to our trustee board. Phoebe is a furniture designer-maker, currently working at …
We’re delighted to welcome Emma Bruun to Sylva Foundation as a new staff member in the role of Product Manager for our Environment Programme.
To celebrate the start of our Woodworking and Gender Project we are excited to offer a £3,000 bursary to join our Professional Course. Are you a practical person attracted to learning new skills and experiences in working with wood? Perhaps you have some previous woodworking experience and wish to learn professional practice skills whilst building…
We are increasingly embedded in the digital forest: on-line grant applications; drone based surveys; in-forest scanning; map based management platforms; in-harvester data collection; the list goes on. We at Sylva Foundation have been innovators in this space; in particular with our flagship web platform myForest supporting woodland creation and management since the early days of…
Despite the wet and cool spring and summer in Britain, wildfires are still occurring. Understanding the wildfire risk for their woodland is key for all managers, and once assessed, can point to ways to reduce the risk of wildfire occurring, and to aid preparation if it does.
The Old Pigsty is a commercial unit available to rent from Sylva Foundation by a suitable business concerned with designing or making with wood. The unit lies slightly separate from other buildings and units at the Wood Centre, providing ample space and privacy with views across the countryside, while remaining within close proximity of excellent facilities. The unit benefits from excellent natural light.
Sylva Foundation, a national environmental charity based in Oxfordshire, has been awarded a grant of £240,000 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to tackle gender inequality in Britain’s heritage woodwork and furniture making sectors. The charity runs a successful wood school and hosts multiple businesses at its Wood Centre in Long Wittenham, South Oxfordshire. Through…
The new myForest Inventory functionality is the result of a two year partnership with Northwoods Innovation Programme and significantly improves the ability of myForest users to calculate and store woodland inventory information.
Are you a woodland owner, manager or forestry professional with views and experiences you could share with researchers about public access to woodlands? If so, you are invited to take part in the latest British Woodlands Survey exploring all aspects of public access to woodlands.