History

The story so far…

The idea of a body to represent and support community woodlands has been discussed several times over the last few years. In March 2008 woodland networking conference at CAT resolved to form a Community Woodland Forum for Wales, supported by Coed Lleol. A Working Group was set up in order to develop the structure, governance and activities of the forum, highlighting priorities and any potential problems.

The Working Group met several times over the next seven months and on the 3rd November 2008, a constitution signed by a founding Board representing five community woodland groups (Roger Davies, Jenny Wong, Dave Petty, Fay Sharply and Philip Swain) to establish Llais y Goedwig as an Unicorported Association.

Constitution 3rd Nov 2008 – 2nd March 2010 Llais y Goedwig constitution 3-11-08

Llais y Geodwig was publically launched on the 10 February in Cardiff by Elin Jones the Minister for Rural Affairs.  This was folowed by a launch in North Wales at Glastir in Llanwrst on the 20 February 2009.

At the first AGM of the Association in Lampeter on the 21 November 2009, it was decided to more formally constitute Llais y Goedwig as a Company limited by guarantee. A Memorandum and Articles of Association were drafted and signed by the Board on the 3rd March 2010. See GOVERNANCE pages for these documents.