To celebrate the start of our Woodworking and Gender Project we are excited to offer a £3,000 bursary to join our Professional Course. Are you a practical person attracted to learning new skills and experiences in working with wood? Perhaps you have some previous woodworking experience and wish to learn professional practice skills whilst building…
Sylva Foundation, a national environmental charity based in Oxfordshire, has been awarded a grant of £240,000 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to tackle gender inequality in Britain’s heritage woodwork and furniture making sectors. The charity runs a successful wood school and hosts multiple businesses at its Wood Centre in Long Wittenham, South Oxfordshire. Through…
The Sylva Wood Centre is taking part in Oxfordshire Artweeks again this year and opening the Wood School and workshops to the public, on 18/19 May.
On International Women’s Day we look forward to bringing our Woodworking and Gender programme to life in 2024.
An innovative Woodworking and Gender Seminar was hosted by Sylva Foundation on October 13, 2023. More than 70 participants came together at the Sylva Wood Centre for a day of talks, workshops and discussions around gender equality in the woodworking industry. Initial feedback has focused on the seminar not just being a success in bringing…