About WoodNet

WoodNet was established as a bidding partnership in 1995, becoming a company limited by guarantee and attaining charitable status in 2000.  WoodNet delivers education, training, research and development relating to woodland management and the innovative use of timber. 

WoodNet has developed an extensive database of woodland practitioners and timber users throughout the South East, and provides effective networking through the regular publication of the WoodLots newsletter (www.woodlots.org.uk), received by over 1600 subscribers five times a year. 

Working in partnership WoodNet has developed a number of practical initiatives with forestry, timber industry and public sector organisations, for example: TimberBuild Network SE, Inwood Developments, Lignatherm and Weald WoodFair.

WoodNet is based at the Woodland Enterprise Centre (WEC) located in the heavily wooded Weald near Flimwell on the East Sussex/Kent border. As such WoodNet is well placed to deliver a programme of education, training, seminars and exhibitions focused on woodlands and timber. 

The Woodland Enterprise Centre is a demonstration in itself - exciting architecture set within 20 hectares of working woodland offering an inspiring environment.  The Centre includes a Civic Trust award-winning timber gridshell building, completed in 2003, incorporating many environmental design features, including under-floor heating fuelled by local wood-chip.