The Sylva Wood Centre
The Sylva Wood Centre is a 12 hectare site in South Oxfordshire, and is firmly rooted in the local community. We have a community of Wood Centre businesses, the Sylva Wood School, the Future Forest, including a Forest School site, and the House of Wessex.
The Sylva Wood Centre provides the base for advocacy and collaboration
Business Incubation
We provide facilities to support business incubation, including start-up units, shared workspaces, and hot-benching facilities.
Business Hub
Our hub is for small businesses and craftspeople who design, innovate or make in wood. Businesses range from furniture making and outdoor structures, to boat-building. There is also a small-scale timber yard on the site.
Teaching Barn
Our well-equipped teaching venue is providing the opportunities to deliver excellence in education and business enterprise.
Find a business at Sylva Wood Centre
Anthony Dain Furniture
Anthony Dain Furniture makes bespoke furniture, cabinetry and interior joinery to commission….
Arttrees Studio
A fully qualified joiner and cabinetmaker with extensive experience across diverse woodworking environments, delivering projects worldwide. Skilled in architectural joinery,…
Colin Henwood
Colin Henwood is an award-winning boatbuilder with 40 years experience of building, restoring and caring for wooden boats….
Face North Forestry
Professional forestry contractor offering low impact management of the rural environment, plus mobile sawmill and firewood processing….
Greenfield Woodwork
Peter Greenfield. Contemporary design alongside conservation in wood….
Hug Objects
hug_objects creates handcrafted wooden objects using UK-grown timber wherever possible and rescued offcuts — sustainably and ethically made to be…
Neil Scott Furniture
Neil Scott creates one of a kind, handmade wooden furniture using carefully selected exotic and home-grown hardwoods. Each piece is…
Pat Mead Designs
Pat Mead designs and handcrafts bespoke furniture that blends functionality, natural beauty, and personal expression using sustainably sourced homegrown timbers…
TAD Furniture
TAD Furniture creates bespoke picture framing, elegantly designed fitted storage solutions, lighting designs and beautifully made small craft items such…
The Microfactory
Daniel Bruce. Design, manufacture, management and maintenance consultancy….
The Oxford Fitted Furniture Co.
At The Oxford Fitted Furniture Co. we design and build fitted furniture that combines elegance with durability whilst focusing on…
Theo Silkstone
Theo Silkstone designs and makes sculptural, heirloom-quality furniture that highlights the natural beauty of solid wood….
The Sylva Wood Centre is an innovative place helping to make big change happen
Circular Economy on Site
Practical Expertise Leading to Innovative Solutions
Turning our Theories into Practice
Other Initiatives at the Sylva Wood Centre
Forest School
Giving young people increased contact with, and knowledge of, the natural world
Sylva Future Forest
The Future Forest allows us to communicate the challenges trees face from environmental change
