nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
Following the Royal Forestry Society and Woodland Trust conference in October, on the theme of resilient woodlands, the organisers have released a short film featuring some of the speakers, including Sylva’s CEO Gabriel Hemery.
In partnership with the National Forest Company, the Sylva Foundation recently ran a successful one day myForest for Education workshop for Forest School Leaders and woodland owners.
In a recent workshop run under the innovative Logs for Labour scheme, led by the Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment, Sylva’s Paul Orsi explained the biodiversity as well as the economic and social benefits of active woodland management.
We are pleased to welcome Tina Jacobs to Sylva to help develop and implement our future fundraising and communications strategy. She will be working closely with the Chief Executive to raise both funds for and awareness of the Sylva Foundation and its projects.
Sylva Foundation staff were pleased to be involved recently in the Botanic Garden Education Network 2015 annual conference: ‘Time for Trees’ at Westonbirt Arboretum.
This year the Sylva Foundation is delighted to be a supporter of Scotland’s Finest Woods Award. The award chimes perfectly with the recent expansion of the support we offer to Scottish woodland owners through the myForest service.
Sylva are please to promote an important new project that will provide support for owners of Atlantic woodland. Find out about free one day workshops for land managers, run by Plantlife.
Volunteer intern Dr Zia Mehrabi is working with Sylva to help develop a strategy for monitoring the health of UK woodlands using the myForest service.
This week we unveiled a plaque celebrating the close working relationship between the Sylva Foundation and Grown in Britain, and the innovation of thermally-modified hardwood cladding sourced from sustainably managed British woodlands.
Sylva Foundation CEO Gabriel Hemery talked about wood culture at Confor’s Westminster conference earlier this week. He called for more collaboration between organisations to create a strong and coherent voice for forestry, in all its guises.