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Free Advice
& Networking Event
Woodland Access Conference
Speakers Sought for Coppice Group
Take Part of East Sussex Wood Season
New Dates for WoodFair 2005
Hampshire Funding Opportunities
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Free
Advice & Networking Event
Monday, 21st March 2005, 6pm-9pm
The RBAT Network (Rural Business Advice & Training) are hosting an
informal networking evening for rural businesses at the Woodland
Enterprise Centre near Flimwell. Representatives from The Forestry
Commission, Business Link, The Netherfield Centre for Sustainable Food
& Farming, Plumpton College,
Weald WoodNet, Action In Rural Sussex, DEFRA Rural Development Service and
LANTRA will be on hand to provide free advice for established and
prospective rural businesses. Participants are encouraged to bring
leaflets, promotional material and business cards for their own businesses
to take advantage of this networking opportunity. Free light refreshments
and tea & coffee will be available. Woodland Enterprise Centre,
Hastings Road, Flimwell, East Sussex. The Centre is approximately half a
mile South of the Flimwell crossroads on the A21. Map available
online at: www.woodnet.org.uk/wec
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Woodland
Access Conference
Stoneleigh
Park, Warwickshire,
Thursday, March 17th 2005
Organised by The Royal Forestry Society, The Woodland Trust and The Royal
Agricultural Society of England, this conference explores policy, practice
and the pros and cons of increasing public access in UK woodlands. For
student subsidies go to www.rfs.org.uk (click on Careers & Courses,
then Bursaries, then Spencer Bursary). Programme and on-line bookings at www.rase.org.uk/conferences.
For telephone bookings please contact: Sue Archer on 02476 858252
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Speakers
Sought
for
Surrey & Sussex Coppice Group
Could your project or business benefit from the opportunity to speak or
demonstrate to the 80+ members of the Sussex & Surrey Coppice Group at
their regular evening meetings at Buchan Country Park, near Crawley?
This is a great opportunity to make contact with coppice workers
and coppice woodland owners. Next
meeting 21st April. Future speakers include Owen Johnson author of ‘The
Sussex Tree Book’ and Barry Holt, deer manager at Cowdray Estate, West
Sussex. For more information please contact: Mary-Ann
Edwards, West Sussex County Council, Tel: 01293 517595
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East
Sussex
Wood Season 2005
East Sussex County Council are once again putting together a packed
programme of woodland and timber related events and opportunities for the
autumn. Do you have a timber
related product, event or opportunity that could be promoted within East
Sussex and the Wood Season programme during October 2005?
Deadline for entry into the programme, end April 2005. For copies
of last year’s programme and to discuss your ideas please contact: Jenny
Martin, Weald WoodNet, Tel: 01273 479173, email: jenny@woodnet.org.uk
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10th
Weald WoodFair:
latest dates
Since
publishing the dates for Weald WoodFair 2005 in our pre-Christmas issue,
the dates have been changed to avoid a clash.
So please take note:
Weald WoodFair 2005 will take place on Friday 23rd, Saturday 24th
and Sunday 25th September. For venue and exhibitor booking information
please contact:
Jane Stevens, 01273 482920
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Hampshire
Funding Opportunities
The following projects may fund countryside management and access works
within their project areas if the work meets their criteria.
•
Forest
of Bere:
Emily
Preston, Project Officer,
Tel: 01489 774409, EmilyP@forestofbere.org.
•
Loddon
& Eversley Heritage Area:
Alison
Cross, Loddon and Eversley Project Officer, Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Wildlife Trust,
Tel: 01489 774 424, alisonc@hwt.org.uk
• New Forest Friendly Farming: funding management works, training, business development and equipment within the New Forest Leader+ Area. Contact: Emma Rigglesworth , Forest Friendly Farming Officer,
Tel: 02380 284144,
www.forestfriendlyfarming.org.uk
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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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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.
Hold
Your Event at the
Woodland
Enterprise Centre
For bookings throughout 2004 and 2005 please contact:
Weald WoodNet, Tel: 01580 879552, Email: info@woodnet.org.uk
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