Calling all Oxfordshire woodland owners, managers and community groups
Owners, managers and community groups caring for woodlands in Oxfordshire are being asked to take part in an important survey. Deadline extended to June 25th.
nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
Special edition prints from The New Sylva to be auctioned
Sign up for early-bird notification of an auction of special prints from The New Sylva featuring Sarah Simblet’s tree portraits, botanical details and woodland scenes. All proceeds to our charitable work.
Workshop: bringing forest ecology into schools
The Sylva Foundation is working in partnership with the British Ecological Society to run a half-day CPD and consultation workshop to establish opportunities and constraints to teaching and learning forest ecology in secondary schools.
Resilient woodlands: meeting the challenge
An important conference will take place on October 1st concerning the challenges facing our woodlands from environmental change. Organised jointly by the Royal Forestry Society and the Woodland Trust, we are pleased to have been invited to contribute.
Work benches loaned to the Sylva Wood Centre
Our plans to support more business incubation, apprentices and work placements at the Sylva Wood Centre took a step forward this week, thanks to the generous long-term loan of seven quality work benches.
Sylva Wood Centre opens to the public
We enjoyed a fantastic opening weekend as part of Artweeks. It was wonderful to meet so many of our new neighbours and the local community.
Video guidance for myForest
Following on from the launch of Version 3.0 of myForest, we have launched video guidance on how to use the various myForest applications and features.
Your invitation to the Sylva Wood Centre
We are opening our new Sylva Wood Centre to the public for the first time from tomorrow – we hope to see you there. Our exhibition is open from 16-25 May.
Oxford-Sylva scholarship highlighted in university’s major campaign
We are proud the Sylva Foundation’s strong ties with the University of Oxford, particularly through our graduate scholarship that focusses on productive and healthy forests.
myForest for Education – a national first for forest education
We are pleased to announce the launch of myForest for education: the UK’s first ever woodland management planning tool specifically designed for education. Funded by the Patsy Wood Trust, myForest for education has been developed as part of the recently launched myForest Version 3.0.