Hooke Park’s Future Forest
Last week our Director of Operations, Paul Orsi, was lucky enough to be invited to speak at Hooke Park in Dorset as part of their Future Forest seminar.
nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
Helping land managers rate the biodiversity value of woodland
We’re excited to be working with Forest Research on an exciting new project called Living Layers, to investigate how woodland structure influences biodiversity. Living Layers is a new project added to the line-up in Forest Lab, part of myForest. It is aimed at woodland owners and managers. By sharing basic information about their woodland, researchers…
Help prevent establishment of spruce bark beetle by joining national monitoring project
Woodland owners and managers across the country are being asked to help expand a GB-wide network of pheromone traps. Taking part will help improve understanding of the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus, and will further develop the early warning system preventing the establishment and potential spread of this damaging pest. The Forest Lab Pest…
2024-25 Trustees’ Report and Accounts
We’re pleased to publish our trustees’ report and financial accounts for 2024-25
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.
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.