International Women’s Day: Woodworking and Gender
On International Women’s Day we look forward to bringing our Woodworking and Gender programme to life in 2024.
advocating is one of Sylva Foundation’s core values
On International Women’s Day we look forward to bringing our Woodworking and Gender programme to life in 2024.
A new national monitoring project aims to help prevent the potential spread of a serious pest affecting spruce trees – the larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus).
New Forestry Professionals Network visit the Sylva Foundation to see our work supporting the use of home-grown timber from forestry to wood craft.
At the January Furniture Show, Joe Bray, Head of Sylva Wood School, gave a talk about ‘Working with home-grown timber’.
A new national monitoring project is being rolled out to help prevent the potential spread of a serious pest affecting spruce trees. Volunteers are sought who have spruce growing in woodland that they own or manage, and who are willing to host and collect samples by installing a spruce bark beetle trap.
As we come to the end of 2023, we are delighted to report that Sylva Foundation has continued to flourish. In this impact report you will read how our vision of a society that cares for nature, while living with it in harmony, is evident in all the diverse areas of our charity. Fundamental to this are our key values, and in this, our third impact report, we are delighted to share how one of our values – innovation runs throughout our work at Sylva Foundation.
As part of our outreach work, we have been providing support to undergraduates on the Rural Enterprise and Land Management, Rural Property Management and Environmental Land Management degree courses, at Harper Adams University in Shropshire.
An innovative training course took place in collaboration with the Northwoods Innovation Programme last month to trial planned enhancements to the myForest Inventory system.
An innovative Woodworking and Gender Seminar was hosted by Sylva Foundation on October 13, 2023. More than 70 participants came together at the Sylva Wood Centre for a day of talks, workshops and discussions around gender equality in the woodworking industry. Initial feedback has focused on the seminar not just being a success in bringing…
We have been proud to support an important research exercise horizon scanning issues that are likely to affect forest management in the UK within the next 50 years.