Learn to build a traditional Welsh style Windsor chair using greenwood methods from the pole lathe to shave horse.

A practical training course and handbook on the use of small woodlands for the production of woodfuel products.

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The course is designed to help participants:

Understand the range of draft CEN standards for wood fuels - Appreciate the different properties of wood fuel that can be specified - Know how to specify wood chip fuel - Know how to find out if a particular type of wood is appropriate for a specific combustion system - Recognise the importance of quality assurance and labelling.

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2 day course investigating all areas required to complete a woodland management plan.

You will design and make your own unique piece of furniture and learn about various methods of construction which are simple but effective.

Using simple hand tools this course covers the procedures and techniques required to shape and tiller an ash bow until it is capable of being bent to a near semi-circle.

On this course you will make a small commercial kiln burn as well as a ‘starter kit’ using forty five gallon drums.

5 day practical course covering splitting, weaving, turning and charcoal making.

Build an Ironbridge style coracle using simple tools and techniques to suit all levels of experience and ability. And then join in the Ironbridge Coracle Regatta!

4 day course covered over 2 weekends. The course explores the physical, emotional and physiological benefits woodlands have on people. The course is both practical and theory split between classroom and woodland teaching areas.

The Ignite one-day seminar is designed to introduce those working with farms and estates to the opportunities provided by woodfuel for self-supply from woodland and forest resources and the chance to look beyond estate boundaries to other opportunities in the renewable energy sector.

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An intensive short course covering the practical and theory for sustainable woodland management promoting the need for balance between Biodiversity, social and economic benefits of woodlands.

Top chefs rave about them, they cost a packet and yet this time of year they’re literally mushrooming all around us! On this course you will look at all aspects of fungi and end up with a fry up of the day’s best finds.

5 day practical course covering all aspects of hedge laying.

5-day introductory course for the extraction of timber using horses. The course provides supervised practice and details harnessing, long-reining the use of equipment, suitable extraction methods, identifying and tackling hazards and risk assessments.

2 day course investigating all areas required to complete a woodland management plan. The course is class room based with tours of local woodlands.

2 day course covered over 2 weekends , covering all aspects of edge tool sharpening to include axes, bill hooks, knives and chisels.

2 day course detailing the different types of ride construction and management.

5 day practical course covering all aspects of coppice management. The course promotes coppicing as a sustainable woodland management system which provides a wide range of benefits.