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WoodLots 60 News Nov/Dec 2005
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Win Win at Norbury Park
Kent County Council
Supports WoodLots
Free Wood Fuel Workshops
Makers Making Contact
Classified Wood Fuel
Become a WoodLots Friend
Hold Your Event at the Woodland
Enterprise Centre
www.norburywood.org
Wood is showing its winning ways again as Norbury Park Sawmill & Wood Products wins the Small Business category in the Surrey Sustainable Business Awards.
Ian Devon (pictured left receiving the award) manages the sawmill and workshops for the Surrey Wildlife Trust and says: "All the wood used at Norbury Park comes from South East England, some of which is harvested from sites managed by the Wildlife Trust....all the wood comes from sustainably managed woods...Our new kiln and heating system uses waste from the sawmill for seasoning wood. Sawdust goes for animal bedding and we are in the process of installing solar power for electricity to power the seasoning kiln. Offcuts are used for charcoal production.
Norbury Park Wood Products offers a catalogue of hand crafted items for the countryside and garden, whilst over 50% of their orders are bespoke, made to customer’s specification. For more information on Norbury Park Wood Products go to:
www.norburywood.org or telephone: 01483 401889
Kent Supports
WoodLots
We are
extremely pleased to announce that Kent County Council are supporting
WoodLots by making a contribution to the annual costs of the service.
TV Energy (Thames Valley Energy Agency) are hosting a series of free bioenergy workshops throughout the South East (including the Woodland Enterprise Centre) in January. The workshops will explore bioenergy from wood and energy crops, with talks from installers & fuel suppliers. Speakers from Bioenergy Technology, South East Wood Fuels, Slough Heat & Power and the National Farmers Union will be there amongst others. Booking information right.
Bert Buri, cabinet maker and member of the Sussex Guild, offers Katie Walker, designer maker, an opportunity to try her hand at marquetry. Both were exibiting at the recent Sussex-Somme Furniture Show at the Woodland Enterprise Centre in October, alongside fellow Sussex makers and visiting French furniture makers from Picardy. For more information about this project and all the exhibitors involved go to: www.ruralbusinesses.net/furniture
Classified
Wood Fuel
We have introduced a
new classified advertising category, ‘Sustainable Wood Fuel’ to
help raise the profile of this carbon neutral fuel source. If you supply
or are seeking firewood, charcoal or boiler grade wood chip from local
sustainable sources you can now advertise your product in this new
section. All adverts also appear on the WoodLots website at www.woodnet.org.uk/woodlots/editoral/toc2opt3
Weald WoodNet are developing a database of wood fuel suppliers with a view
to maximising the potential to supply the developing bioheat industry. Please
let us know if you would like to be part of this network. Contact: Jenny
Martin, 01580 879552, jenny@woodnet.org.uk
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WoodLots is working and that woodlands and businesses in the South East
are benefiting from the networking opportunities and information supplied
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You can help by letting us know about benefits you have gained.
Have you, as a result of information found in WoodLots :
• made useful business contacts
• attended an event or received training
• found employment/a new employee
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Hold
Your Event
at the Woodland
Enterprise Centre
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For small or large meetings,
conferences,
workshops, exhibitions and private functions, the Woodland Enterprise Centre offers 150 square metres of exhibition and conference
space, plus smaller meeting rooms, all within 22 hectares of
demonstration woodland at Flimwell, just south of Tunbridge Wells on the
East Sussex/Kent border in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural
Beauty.
For bookings throughout 2005-06 please contact:
Weald WoodNet, Tel: 01580 879552
Email: info@woodnet.org.uk