Members news and events

A space for members to advertise events, post newsletters and messages

Coppicewood College have their latest newsletter available, with details of upcoming courses, to view from this link: Coppicewood newsletter Spring 2012

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Woodland manager job LlyG members Llangattock Community Woodland group have an opportunity to tender for a woodland manager post- see Llangattock Tender Advert for more details.

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Coeden Fach Tree Nursery Open Day Saturday 12th May 12 noon – 3pm Coeden Fach Community Tree Nursery, Lower Hareslade Farm Field, Brandy Cove Road, Bishopston, Swansea SA3 3DT

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The Wild Garlic Festival will take place in two forests near Abergavenny on 14-15 April, 11.00-17.00 each day. The first day of the festival, a celebration of woodland and wild food, is at Llwyn Ffranc Farm, the second at Arcadia Wood (both are Llais y Goedwig members). Space is limited and tickets (£5 per day) are selling fast. All booking information is on www.communityforestfarm.co.uk and you can download a flyer here: Wild Garlic Festival 2012

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The latest update from Blaeneinion (a reforestation, permaculture and beaver project in Ceredigion) can be read here: Blaeinion update spring 2012

If your groups produces an update you’d like the other members of Llais y Goedwig to see why not send it to us to post here? (jo.cooper@llaisygoedwig.org.uk)

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Forest School Wales- Northern Regional Skillshare & Networking Day

Saturday 31st March 2012, Penrhyn Castle, Bangor
10.00am – 5.00 pm. Cost £10 plus FSW Membership; concessions available
Forest School Wales invites you to join Forest School and other outdoor learning practitioners for a family day in the woods sharing seasonal and sustainable skills and crafts and campfire cooking, and learning about Forest School developments.

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Tree planting day at the Centre for Alternative Technology- Open to all

Sat 25th February 2 – 4pm. £2 each. Children free. Tea,coffee and cake provided
Meet in the CAT carpark at 1:45pm. There will be a 15 minute walk to our woodland site at Coed
Gwern. Join us to plant a tree and learn about a local woodland and its biodiversity. Children welcome.
Please book your place grace.crabb@cat.org.uk 01654 705971 Tree planting poster

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Coeden Fach Community Tree Nursery Training Days:
- Sustainable Woodland Management Training Day- 21st January 2012
- Green Woodworking Training Day- 22 January 2012
Both the above courses cost £25 each and include a cooked lunch round the fire, based in Bishops Wood, Caswell, Swansea.
- Urban Permaculture (2 days) 25 & 26 February 2012, £40, based at the Environment Centre, Swansea
Please email Coeden.Fach@yahoo.co.uk for a booking form or phone 07778 591091 for more information. Also see our website www.coedenfach.wetpaint.com

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The Woodland Skills Centre in Bodfari have just published details of their new courses on offer- see their website http://www.woodlandskillscentre.co.uk for more details. In their own words they are a “Not-for-profit Social Enterprise company in the middle of Clwydian Range AONB with 50 acres of woodland and covered workshops. We run a wide range of courses in woodland and other traditional crafts, bushcraft courses and family holidays”. They were also the hosts for the Llais y Goedwig conference and AGM in 2011!

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Coedwig Cymunedol Longwood Community Woodland, near Lampeter, have just received the news that they have a grant of £787,714 from the BIG lottery fund to acquire land from the Forestry Commission Wales (FCW) and deliver a number of activities and services for the local community. The plans include a natural green burial site, the running of educational programmes through the forest school, renting out of the outdoor theatre and an eco camp site.
Welcoming the grant, Group Chair Philip Swain, said: “It is fantastic news and the culmination of many years and a lot of hard work by local people to save the woodland, which is heavily used by the public, as an important community asset. We now have a great opportunity to return Longwood, in an environmentally sustainable way, to traditional native woodland and also of providing an exciting program of educational, social and work opportunities to the people of Ceredigion.”

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Volunteer opportunities coming up at Golygfa Gwydyr
Read their press coverage HERE
Golygfa Gwydyr should soon have up to 24 volunteer spaces in Llanrwst for local unemployed people, to work in woodland management and sales of logs for wood fuel.
Volunteers can gain five-day certificated chain saw course, strimming, spraying for weed control, health and safety for forestry activities..
The aim is to train up to 12 people each year for two years, then keep a rolling training programme to replace volunteers who have moved on into full-time work. Using the Golygfa Gwydyr Job Club, also based in Llanrwst, they will build a portfolio of training and work experience for each volunteer and help with job search and applications.When the business takes off they are hoping to take on some volunteers as paid employees themselves.
They also need woodland owners, who need help with woodland management to contact them- people who want to bring their woodlands into production but their woodlands are too small or inaccessible for large-scale commercial forestry contractors to operate economically.
If you are unemployed, living in rural Conwy, and would like to register for these positions, contact Roger Davies/Tina Hill at Golygfa Gwydyr, Plough Street, Llanrwst, LL26 0AG.
Tel 01492 642110 Email: rogerd@golygfagwydyr.org
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Coeden Fach Community Tree Nursery are running training courses
- Forest Garden Training Day 15 October 2011, £25*
- Orchard Pruning Training Day 10 December 2011, £25
- Sustainable Woodland Management Training Day, 21 January 2011, £25* at Bishops Wood, Caswell
- Green Woodworking Training Day 22 January 2011, £25* at Bishops Wood
- Urban Permaculture (2 days) 25 & 26 February 2012, £40
*Courses with an asterix include a cooked lunch round the fire.
Please email Coeden.Fach@yahoo.co.uk for a booking form or phone 07778 591091 for more information.
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Fungus Forage ‘Blaen Bran Community Woodland, based in Cwmbran in SE Wales are holding a fungus forage on Saturday 1st October at 2pm. All are welcome – but so we have an idea of numbers please contact David Williams on 01633 875704 or e-mail to: williams-hartwell4@hotmail.co.uk. Details of where the woodland is are on the website: www.blaenbran.org.ukWe meet at the lower car park, which has space for about 8 vehicles.
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Carreglwyd Woodland Festival and Sustainable Living Fair to be held 24th-25th September, Carreglwyd, Ynys Môn. 11-5 both days, Music 7-11 Sat only. For more details www.carreglwyd.info lora@fireflyevents.lk
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Moelyci Heritage Trail opening- Sat 17th September 2pm. See HERE for more details.
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Troserch Woods – an update on the work in Troserch woods over the last year
Troserch Woods 2010-11 Eng
Troserch Woods 2010-11 CY
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Glan Faenol Open Day – National Trust
29 July 2011, 1-6pm, FREE ENTRY, Directions: A55 Junction 9 (Ysbyty Gwynedd), follow signs for ‘Parc Menai’ and then follow signs for the event itself.
Phone 07748 983016 / plasnewydd@nationaltrust.org.uk
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Coetir Mynydd & Moelyci Forest Film Evening – Saturday 16th July 7 pm Neuadd Goffa, Mynydd Llandygai, Gwynedd. All welcome!
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