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Weald
WoodFair 2004
:
set
to be the biggest and best yet
East Sussex Wood Season: 100
opportunities between WoodFair
to Bonfire
Visit
Eastbourne Timber Frame Self-Build:
WoodSeason
2004
Music
By Design: Bert
Buri opens his workshop during WoodSeason
Hampshire Coppice Craftsmen
Group: membership
and AGM details
APF
2004: the international forest
machinery exhibition
Free Forestry Commission Seminars
for woodland owners and managers
Coppice
Cutting Signs: Do you still need some?
Efficient Emailing:
Are you on the WoodNet email list?
Coppice Woodland
Owners: try the Sussex & Surrey
Coppice Group
Woodland
Enterprise Venue: exhibitions, meetings,
seminars...
WoodFair
2003 was attended by over 10,000 people: working horses extracting timber,
tree cutting and processing in the woods, good trading opportunities with
plenty of sales, equipment & fine finished products demonstrated and
for sale, hand made musical instruments, innovative furniture design,
traditional crafts demonstrated, and much more at WoodFair 2004
The
9th Weald WoodFair
is
set to be the best yet, with more woodworking, forestry and arboriculture
equipment than ever, the biggest Furniture & Finished Products marquee
so far, and a variety of modern and traditional timber buildings on show
alongside all the usual attractions in the relaxed rural grounds of
Bentley near Lewes. WoodFair is open from 9.30am-5.00pm on September 17th,
18th and 19th at Bentley Wildfowl & Motor Museum near Lewes, with a
free half hourly bus service from Lewes bus and rail stations.
New
for this year at WoodFair:
The
Tree Climbers Forum will be offering a free programme of training
workshops with opportunities to try out climbing equipment; Martin
Patterson (the Furniture Workshop) will be showing-off his half-scale
wooden model of a medieval Trebuchet (a catapult-style siege machine); Wakehurst
Place Gardens (Kew) will be sharing their expertise; Light
on Life will be offering information about woodland burials; Specialist
woodland mushroom kits will be available; Dark
Age rune carving will be on show; Welsh
Axemen will be racing against cross-cut saws.
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East
Sussex Wood Season
Following considerable interest from the public and producers,
the East Sussex Wood Season is back, a programme of events and
opportunities starting with WoodFair in September and running through to
Bonfire in early November. We’ve picked out just some of the
opportunities within the programme:
• Try timber-framing, charcoal making, green
woodwork, coppicing and pole-lathing
• Meet leading experts in utilising local timbers in
construction
• Meet experienced local foresters and woodland
owners
• Walk in woodlands with experts and enthusiasts
• Visit a range of crafts people in their workshops
• Enjoy woodlands by bike, hot-air balloon, boat or
horse-back
• Gather cobnuts, sing by firelight, paint autumn
colours, eat oak smoked foods, find woodland fungi and stay somewhere
woody
The 44 page Wood
Season programme is packed with events and opportunities for all
age-groups and levels of experience, available in libraries, tourist
information centres and at Weald WoodFair. (Sue Etherington or Chrissie
Townsend at East Sussex County Council,
Tel: 01273 481441).
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Visit Eastbourne Self-Build
Roger
& Barbara Clark (pictured left) are true self-builders, designing and
constructing their own traditional oak timber frame home in central
Eastbourne. Roger and Barbara will be offering a tour of their
self-build site during Wood Season 2004. The oak jowl post pictured was
sourced locally through contacts made at WoodFair.
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Music by Design
This
elegant sheet-music cabinet has been expertly crafted by Bert Buri from
locally sourced rippled sycamore and bog oak to mimic the contrasting
colours of piano keys. Bert uses mainly local timbers, often gently
‘re-educating’ clients about the great qualities of our local
hardwoods. Bert will be opening his Horam Manor Farm workshop, alongside
trug-maker Peter Marden and picture framer Simon Keizer, for the weekend
of the 2nd and 3rd of October as part of the East
Sussex Wood Season.
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Hampshire’s
Coppice Craftsmen Group
promote and support the work of coppice workers, under-woodsmen and
associated crafts people in Hampshire, whilst raising awareness about the
benefits and opportunities coppicing provides for woodlands, wildlife,
landscape, rural employment and sustainable development. Their AGM is on
the 26th October 2004. Guest speaker Peter Roberts (Historian) will give a
talk on charcoal burning.
Tel: 01962 845995, contactus@hampshirecoppice.org.uk
www.hampshirecoppice.org.uk
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Free
Forestry Commission Seminars:
The
Restoration of Plantations on Ancient Woodland Sites
The
Forestry Commission will be running these free seminars at Sparsholt
College, Winchester on 28th September and the Woodland Enterprise Centre,
Flimwell on 5th October. Anyone
wishing to book a place please contact
Jenny Noel, Tel: 01420 23337, Email: jennifer.noel@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
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Coppice
Cutting Signs: Do you
still need some?
Last
year Debbie Bartlett successfully sourced funding from the Nationwide
Building Society to produce 1000 durable coppice-cutting signs, to display
whilst cutting. They explain the coppicing process and the benefits
it has for wildlife and the local economy to passers by. The signs have proved to be
extremely popular amongst cutters. Debbie would like letters/emails of support from individuals and
organisations who have found these signs useful or from anyone who would
like more of these signs. These letters will assist in securing funding
for more signs. Debbie Bartlett is a freelance Rural Development Consultant, Landscape
Architect and Ecologist specialising in woodland issues.
Tel: 01227 700627 or 07974 162045
Email: debbiebartlett@compuserve.com
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Emailing
Are
you on the WoodNet Email List?
We can regularly email you with information about opportunities
that arise between issues, such as trade and training opportunities,
events, advertising deadlines.
To be
added to the WoodNet Email List contact: jenny@woodnet.org.uk. And please
let me know if your email address changes or becomes obsolete.
If you do not have access to the internet at work or at home, your
local library should provide free internet access and help setting up
email.
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Andrew King (SSCG) Weald WoodFair 2003
Coppice Woodland Owners: Try the SSCG
The
Sussex & Surrey Coppice Group (SSCG) welcome enquiries from coppice
woodland owners in Sussex & Surrey seeking information about cutting and contact with local
cutters.
Owners are welcome to join the Group. Members’ meetings are
friendly opportunities to meet cutters, crafts people and other coppice
woodland owners for support, information and discussion. Members can also
take advantage of the free online Members Adverts on the Sussex &
Surrey Coppice Group website provided by Weald WoodNet at
www.woodnet.org.uk.
The Group will be demonstrating at Weald WoodFair 2004 (see Events)
and encourage woodland owners and anyone with an interest in coppicing to
visit their stand to discuss their requirements.
Contact:
Andrew King
Tel: 01825 790495
Mobile: 07720 970309
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Woodland
Enterprise Centre as Venue
for small or large meetings, conferences
and exhibitions, the Woodland Enterprise Centre offers 150 square metres of exhibition and conference
space, including a small meeting room, all within 22 hectares of
demonstration woodland at Flimwell, just south of Tunbridge Wells on the
East Sussex/Kent border. For bookings throughout 2004 and 2005 please contact:
Weald WoodNet, Tel: 01580 879552, Email:info@woodnet.org.uk
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