Job vacancy: Delivery Manager
We are looking for a Delivery Manager to fulfill a key business role for the organisation, involving elements of business analysis and project management.
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From Ideas to Action: our first year of the Woodworking and Gender Project
Cat Poppensieker, Project Coordinator, offers her reflections of the Woodworking and Gender Project project to date.
National Woodworking Teachers Network launches to strengthen, support and celebrate craft educators across the UK
The Furniture Makers’ Company and the Sylva Foundation are launching the Woodworking Teachers Network – a new national initiative designed to connect, support, and empower educators working in woodworking and furniture making education. The network emerges as a direct response to the findings of a comprehensive survey conducted in spring 2025, which gathered the views…
Building Belonging: Reflections from our first ‘Workshop Experience’ course
Reflections from our first six week ‘Workshop Experience’ course, an immersive learning programme designed to open doors into woodworking and furniture making for people historically excluded from the industry.
Have your say about environmental change
The 2025 edition of the British Woodlands Survey is now live, exploring environmental change and resilience. Please take part and have your say in this important national survey.
Launch of UKFS Checker tool in myForest
Sylva Foundation is delighted to announce the launch of the UKFS Checker tool. UKFS Checker is designed to enable woodland owners and managers throughout the UK to carry out a sustainability self-assessment of their woodland stewardship. An intuitive and informative tool which is built into myForest, the UKFS Checker has been designed as an easy to use introduction to the complexities of the UKFS.
Incubation Workshop Available from September 2025
An incubation workshop is available to rent from Sylva Foundation by a business connected with designing or making with wood. Tenants at the Sylva Wood Centre are part of a vibrant community of woodworkers, enjoying excellent specialist facilities, and benefit from the high profile of the charity. Incubation Workshops are designed to help young or…
Join us on Bluesky
Sylva Foundation is active on the social media platform Bluesky. Join us for debate and our latest news.
National survey reveals views among private land managers to public access in woodlands
A report of a national survey published today reveals views among private land managers to public access in woodlands
ercol x Sylva Foundation
We are delighted to celebrate a new collaboration with ercol which will result in an exhibition during London Craft Week at the ercol Chelsea store.