nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
A joint statement by sister charities: Earth Trust, The Oxford Trust, and Sylva Foundation It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Sir Martin Wood (1927-2021). Sir Martin and Lady Wood together founded our three sister charities. Each of us has a distinctive vocation, voice and vision, yet at our heart we…
If you own an area of woodland in the south-east region of England, you could benefit from free one-to-one professional forestry advice. Read more …
We are very excited to launch the new Sylva Friends scheme. We hope you may be interested in becoming a Sylva Friend because you love what we do and how we do it. Read more …
We are delighted to announce that The New Sylva is back in print with signed copies available in our online shop.
In September, Sylva Foundation hosted a Summer School for young creative people to promote design and craft using home-grown timber. The inspiring report from the workshop is published today to coincide with Grown in Britain week.
We are delighted to publish our first ever Impact Report, highlighting our achievements and impacts during the last year.
We have published our Trustee’s Report and Independent Accounts for the year 2020-21.
We are pleased to launch a new campaign aiming to establish a fund to support young craftspeople who graduate from our Professional Making Course. The Sylva Wood School Fellowship Fund will allow us to appoint Fellows, chosen from our course alumni.
Forest managers and others with an interest in trees are invited to share their knowledge and expertise with a team of researchers who are aiming to discover how declining health is affecting trees across the UK, and to understand views on possible new treatments.
We are pleased to be opening up the Sylva Wood Centre again to the public for Artweeks 2021: 15/16 and 22/23 May. Come and see us!