From 1st September 2026 we will have a Start-Up bench space (for emerging makers), Incubation Unit (for growing businesses) and commercial workshop (for established businesses) available. Full details below. The Sylva Wood Centre has three workspace vacancies that will be available for young and established businesses working with wood from September. As a Member of…
This International Women’s Day, we were thrilled to see our Woodworking and Gender project take center stage. The project was highlighted by our major funder, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, as a leading example of how to reshape the heritage skills sector. The Fund celebrated the women and marginalised communities who are reshaping spaces in…
We’re now accepting applications for the 2026 Woodworking & Gender 6-Week Workshop Experience Course, running 11 May – 18 June 2026 at Sylva Wood School, Oxfordshire.
Sylva Foundation CEO Gabriel Hemery reports on significant progress made in bringing the English forestry sector together to ensure that forestry practice, and our trees and forests, will adapt effectively to climate change.