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.
Seven more stunning prints of drawings from The New Sylva have been added to our online fundraising auction. Among them are giant redwoods growing at Benmore Botanic Garden in Scotland, ‘Bramley’s Seedling’ apples, an emerging ash bud, and pear fruit.
Each week over the summer we are listing a new selection of special edition prints from The New Sylva book. Our latest selection includes hazel, tulip tree, London plane, wild cherry and Bramley’s seedling apple. Other items also available.
Each week over the summer we are listing a new selection of special edition prints from The New Sylva book. Our latest selection includes crab apple tree portrait, crab apple fruit, radiata pint cone and fern. Other items also available.
Each week over the summer we are listing a new selection of special edition prints from The New Sylva book. Our latest selection includes hornbeam, medlar, ash, wild strawberry and purging buckthorn. Other items also available.
The drawings in the award-winning book The New Sylva were created by internationally-renowned artist Sarah Simblet while she was artist-in-residence for the Sylva Foundation. Now a selection of 80 special edition prints are being auctioned to raise money for our charitable activities.
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.
The Sylva Foundation has signed up to fundraising regulation through the Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB). Membership is a commitment to the highest standards of fundraising.
For the fourth academic year in a row, Sylva has supported a DPhil student in the Department of Plant Sciences with the Oxford–Sylva Foundation Graduate Scholarship. Current Oxford-Sylva Scholar Louise Hill, now in the second year of her DPhil, was interviewed recently . . .
The Sylva Foundation has been granted a legacy by Edward (Ted) Dorey, a lifelong professional woodworker, who has also gifted an immediate donation of wood and woodworking machinery.