nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
Paradise Wood in south Oxfordshire was planted by Earth Trust in the 1990s, as a research centre for hardwood tree and is a unique resource for learning and advocacy. Thanks to funding from Vastern Timber, Sylva Foundation and Earth Trust will be working together on a new mapping project, using Sylva’s myForest platform to develop an online UK Forestry Standard management plan.
On 14th September, several hundred people gathered in Oxford to celebrate the extraordinary life of Sir Martin Wood (1926-2021). Martin co-founded Sylva Foundation with Gabriel Hemery in 2009, and later, with his wife Audrey, became a Patron of the charity.
The trustees of Sylva Foundation are pleased to release the formal report from the board for 2021-22 and the independent accounts produced by our financial auditors. Read more and download.
Sylva Foundation has teamed up with the National Trust to turn trees lost to Ash dieback into a range of hand-crafted stools, made at the Sylva Wood School.
Forestry, conservation and government organisations have come together under the Forestry and Climate Change Partnership to reaffirm their commitment to work together to promote the importance of adapting trees, woods and forests to climate change
Sylva Foundation’s views on sourcing and using home-grown wood products. Using more wood products sourced from UK forests will stimulate our economy while improving the environmental condition of more woodlands, reducing wood-miles (carbon footprint of importing timber), and help reconnect people with the benefits of a working countryside.
The V&A and Sylva Foundation are hosting a summer school and inviting creative practitioners to take part. The Field Notes project will provide a unique opportunity for those with an interest in wood as a material, and in forests and woodlands as a place for learning and growing. . For Sylva Foundation, the collaboration is…
An innovative new project known as PIES, standing for protect, improve, expand, and sustain, has been launched to help with the creation and management of woodlands across England. The project is funded by the Trees Call to Action Fund. The fund was developed by Defra in partnership with the Forestry Commission and is being administered…
We are delighted to welcome Phillip Gullam as our new Wood School Assistant. Phil previously taught at Rycotewood for a number of years, teaching various furniture-making courses. He brings to the role a breadth of experience gained over the years. Phil has been involved in the teaching and assessing qualifications for wood occupations for more…
We are delighted to open the Sylva Wood Centre to visitors once more during Oxfordshire Artweeks. We are open for 14/15 May from 10am-5pm. Come and see the craftspeople at work in our Wood Centre and learn about their businesses; visit the Wood School to find out about our courses and see our students’ projects.…