The winner of this year’s Woodland Heritage Peter Savill Award is Lord Gardiner of Kimble, Senior Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, and until very recently Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).

For the second year running, the RSA Student Design Awards have brought forward novel ways to utilise local woodland resources to stimulate inclusive and sustainable economic activity. In an Award category called ‘A New Leaf’, sponsored by internationally recognised designer and furniture maker, John Makepeace, with support from Woodland Heritage, two quite different ideas caught the judges’ imagination, with the winners sharing the £2,000 John Makepeace Award at the awards ceremony in June.