Out of the Wood Christmas art weekend
This year we’re opening the Sylva Wood Centre for our first ever Christmas art weekend. Open from 10am-4pm on19 & 20 November. Original gifts in wood for Christmas from our unique community of designer-makers.
nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
Wood Week captivates primary school
An innovative week-long programme of outdoor and indoor education about trees, forestry and wood — Wood Week — was developed and tested with one lucky primary school. Sylva Foundation’s Education Manager Jen Hurst teamed up with Forester Paul Williams, Carpenter Julian Angus and staff at Combe Church of England Primary School to provide children with a…
Stepping into the Future Forest
Sylva Foundation CEO Gabriel Hemery visits the planting site with lifestyle woodworker Paul Sellers to talk about the vision for the Future Forest and how people can get involved.
Trees are for life not just for Christmas!
Why not give a completely unique gift this Christmas – a woodland plot in the name of someone special.
Managing Woods for Woodfuel course
Announcement – Ignite training course to be held at the Sylva Wood Centre on 7th December: Managing woods for woodfuel.
Local school children gear up for the Future Forest
We were lucky to have the support of children from one of the primary schools taking part in planting the Future Forest. Seven children from Willowcroft Community School came to see the bare arable field, where they will return after Christmas and help plant 7,500 trees.
Ignite training course: Managing woods for woodfuel
We are pleased to announce an Ignite training courses to be held at the Sylva Wood Centre on 12th October: Managing woods for woodfuel.
Anglo-Saxon building discovered at the Sylva Wood Centre
An Anglo-Saxon building has been discovered on our land at the Sylva Wood Centre. Timber remained the building material of choice for Anglo-Saxon kings and nobility, even several centuries after stone construction was reintroduced for building churches. Indeed, the word ‘timber’ is an Anglo-Saxon one and was synonymous with the act of building itself. Watch a short TV interview.
UK could double its hardwood timber production and reduce reliance on imports
The UK currently consumes more than 0.5M cubic metres of hardwood timber every year but less than 10% of this is grown in the UK. Yet sustainable home-grown timber production could be doubled by 2050, reducing timber imports by 50 million cubic metres. This would underpin investment in innovation both in the utilisation of or our woodlands and their management.
Help shape the next national woodlands survey
The team behind the next major survey about our woodlands — launching in June 2017 — wants to hear from anyone with an interest in shaping the future of forestry in the UK. This is an opportunity for you to shape the fourth in a series of important national surveys, which will contribute to the development of forestry policy and practice in the UK.