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5 August 2026
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One way to use more homegrown timber at home.

Woodland Heritage Trustee Adrian Jowitt shows how a desire to use timber, coupled with a simple phone call, led him to the milling of Western Red Cedar in a Devon woodland en route to a more sustainable solution. Here’s one way to use more homegrown timber at home.

One way to use more homegrown timber at home.
11 May 2026
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Why provenance matters and the genius it unlocks

When Christian Gaze and I started Gaze Burvill 31 years ago, we had a vision of creating a beautiful collection of outdoor furniture using entirely oak grown in the UK. I was inspired by my one-year course at John Makepeace’s Hooke Park in Dorset where I had learnt about the necessity of adding value to British-grown woods to feed a virtuous cycle of growing and improving our woodlands.

Why provenance matters and the genius it unlocks
2 April 2026
John Orchard
Open Woods & Workshops - launch!
Open Woods & Workshops - launch!
6 January 2026
John Orchard
Woodland Heritage receives skills grant from ...

Today Woodland Heritage announces a £238,442 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to create ‘Woodland Heritage Skills’; two years of educational workshops, digital educational assets and collaboration with its members and partners to deliver the charity’s new Open Woods & Workshops initiative.

Woodland Heritage receives skills grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund
10 December 2025
Blogs
John Orchard
Tabling some dovetails

Nick Wright describes his work at the Snowdon School of Furniture which started as a one-week summer school, the brainchild of David Snowdon and Carmel Allen, Linley’s then creative director, to celebrate 30 years of Linley Furniture and give something back to support student makers.

Tabling some dovetails
Woodland Heritage
23 June 2017

Realising the value of your hardwoods video now live

Woodland Heritage
23 June 2017

Grown in Britain has just released a new video called Realising the Value of Your Hardwoods, supported by Woodland Heritage and Forestry Commission England.

Tagged: British hardwoods, Grown in Britain, Forestry Commission, grown in britain

Woodland Heritage
22 June 2017
Press Releases

Top Suffolk forester winner of the 2017 Peter Savill award

Woodland Heritage
22 June 2017
Press Releases

Four decades of significant contribution to the benefit of the British Forestry Industry has been recognised by a national charity. During its annual Field Weekend in June…

Tagged: Gary Battell, Peter Savill Award, Ancient Tree Forum

Woodland Heritage
22 June 2017

RFS forestry skills study

Woodland Heritage
22 June 2017

The Royal Forestry Society on behalf of the Forestry Skills Forum has appointed RDI Associates Ltd to undertake a sector skills study that will help to identify the skills gaps and shortages…

Tagged: Royal Forestry Society, Forestry Skills FOrum, RDI Associates, Mark Tomlinson, Will Richardson

Woodland Heritage
5 June 2017
Press Releases

Stunning addition to popular trail in Dunkeld unveiled

Woodland Heritage
5 June 2017
Press Releases

A memorial bench with a twist has been unveiled on the banks of the River Tay at Dunkeld to remember Sydney Draper, a former forester to the World Bank who died in July 2015 aged 90.

Tagged: Dunkeld memorial bench, Sydney Draper, Nigel Ross, Big Tree Trail

Woodland Heritage
5 June 2017

Journal 2017 is available to download

Woodland Heritage
5 June 2017

The 2017 edition of the Journal that Woodland Heritage publishes each year is available to download.

Tagged: Woodland Heritage journal

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