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Editorial 64 September 2006
Exciting
times at the Woodland Enterprise Centre - planning permission has been
granted for eight purpose built workshop units to be built at the 20
hectare woodland site situated on the Sussex/Kent border.
If you are interested in renting or buying a 90m2 unit constructed from local timbers
and surrounded by ancient and semi-natural woodland, then click
here.
Alongside
the workshops, WoodNet is developing a multi-purpose Seminar room at
the Woodland Enterprise Centre in conjunction with Plumpton College,
suitable for 16 people seated at desks or 32 seated without desks.
This will be available in the late autumn or early New Year.
We are keen to hear from any training providers who are
interested in using this classroom, with immediate access to ancient
and semi-natural woodland. You may be considering regular, occasional
or one-off use. Let me know if you are interested and we will send you
all the relevant information. We would also like to hear about gaps in
the training market - areas where you have experienced a lack of
training opportunity - so we can develop suitable options in the
future. Weald
WoodFair is here again for the eleventh year welcoming 9000+ visitors
over the weekend (15th, 16th, 17th September). For those of you who
have not been to this most comprehensive and yet relaxed celebration
of trees and timber, I recommend you make at least a day of it - with
over 125 different exhibits, there is so much to see and enjoy (venue
details on page 10). Many
regular WoodLots advertisers will of course be there. New for this
year: a dendrochronology competition, willow deer sculptures, a steam
powered circular saw and Plumpton College offering children a chance
to play with chainsaws - apparently the saws will be chain free! You’ll
find a postcard promoting www.woodlots.org.uk
with this issue - 3000 of these will be distributed at
WoodFair over the 3 days, increasing the opportunity for people to
choose local over imported timber products. If you are exhibiting at
WoodFair and are happy to have some of these cards on your stand,
please let me know - see you at WoodFair!
Jenny
Martin
WoodLots Editor
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