nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
Thanks to the support of the Dulverton Trust, any donation made via the Big Give between 29th November – 2nd December will be doubled! Please consider supporting us next week during this unique opportunity for our charity.
We are excited by the new Community Orchard we have helped create at the Sylva Wood Centre, and the journey we have embarked on with the local community. In time, we hope the orchard will not only be a beautiful part of the local landscape, and be bountiful, but contribute to the conservation of wildlife.
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.
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…
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.
Why not give a completely unique gift this Christmas – a woodland plot in the name of someone special.
Announcement – Ignite training course to be held at the Sylva Wood Centre on 7th December: Managing woods for woodfuel.
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.
We are pleased to announce an Ignite training courses to be held at the Sylva Wood Centre on 12th October: Managing woods for woodfuel.
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.