WoodLots News January 2003
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Hot Chips at WEC
First Aid Training for
Foresters
Coppice Products at Farmers
Markets
Point of Contact for
Woodland Projects
Woody Dates for your 2003 Diary
Space TO LET at the Woodland
Enterprise Centre - Superb office suites
Hot Chips at WEC
Weald WoodNet will be testing different types of wood fuel at the Woodland Enterprise Centre thanks to funding from SEEDA. Wood chips and pellets from local forestry residues, coppice, arboricultural waste, biomass and woody manufacturing waste will be tested for both fuel quality and emissions in the recently installed Arimax 340 BIO boiler. This system is providing heat and hot water for 550 square feet of office and exhibition space. The equipment is modern and automated, heralding a new era in heat supply from wood fuel, offering a ‘carbon neutral’ alternative to fossil fuels and a crucial developing market for English forestry.
The test results will contribute to the future co-ordination of wood fuel processing and the development of the heat supply company for the south-east, Lignatherm Ltd.
Those interested in supplying the wood fuel market or becoming a wood fuel customer please contact Weald WoodNet.
First Aid Training for Foresters
This training is available with a 50% reduction for coppice workers.
Venue and date to be arranged according to interest.
Please contact Debbie Bartlett
Tel: 01622 221565
E-mail: debbie.bartlett@kent.gov.uk
Coppice products have sold very successfully at some Farmers Markets, with producers regularly selling out and filling up order books. If you have a range of products made from local coppice and would like to find out more about available locations in East Sussex and West Sussex please contact:
Jenny Martin
Tel: 01580 879552
Fax: 01580 879547
E-mail: jenny@woodnet.org.uk
Angela Pollard has just taken up the new national post of Woodlands Initiatives Coordinator for the Forestry Commission, based at the Small Woods Association (SWA). Angela will strengthen links between regional woodland projects, communicate best practice, assess training needs, and create an information library and interactive website for the Woodland Initiatives Register. If you are responsible for a woodland project, make sure that Angela has your details.
Tel: 01743 792654
E-mail: angelapollard@smallwoods.org.uk
Woody
Dates for your 2003 Diary
WoodFair
2003
September 19th-21st
Book your space NOW!
The largest annual 3-day wood-use and forestry event in the south-east,
attracting nearly 10,000 visitors, with over 150 exhibitors. All aspects of
wood-use, woodland management and forestry are represented, ‘from forest
to final form’. Held at Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum near Lewes,
East Sussex.
For
exhibitor bookings please contact:
Jane Stevens
Tel: 01825 840573
E-mail: jane.stevens@eastsussexcc.gov.uk
Website: www.eastsussexcc.gov.uk/env/events
‘The Invaders’
March 6th
The Royal Forestry Society’s annual national conference, at the National
Agricultural Centre. A panel of knowledgeable speakers will update delegates
on the actual/predicted effects of a wide range of invasive organisms in UK
woodlands.
Full details and booking forms are at www.rase.org.uk
Contact: The Royal Forestry Society
Tel:
01422 822028
E-mail: rfshq@rfs.org.uk
Celebration
of Trees
April 4th-5th
Capel
Manor College invite trade and public to see an inside view of the
arborist’s world, combining modern technology with traditional crafts.
Enfield, Middlesex.
Contact: Bruce Taggart
Tel: 020 8366 4442
E-mail: enquiries@capel.ac.uk
Hampshire
WoodFair
June 14th-15th
At
Milestones Museum, Basingstoke, hands-on experience plus many fine products
and raw materials, over 70 exhibitors and crafts people.
Contact: Jane Thomas
Tel: 01962 846251,
E-mail: jane.thomas@hants.gov.uk
The
Wood Show
June 28th-29th
At the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum. Timber to tables, bowls to
buildings. In association with Woodland Heritage.
Contact Tel: 01243 811363
Fax: 01243 811475
E-mail: wealddown@mistral.co.uk
Website: www.wealddown.co.uk
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