Wood school

The National Trust is in the early stages of setting-up a local wood school, develop the use of local wood and woodworking craft skills. Based on a model developed in Scotland (www.woodschool.ltd.uk ) The school could:
• Use timber sourced from local sustainably managed woods
• Mill timber at existing saw mills, through an existing mobile mill, or by investing in a new mill for the project.
• Season cut timber naturally, stacked in open sheds that already exist, or which could be added to.
• develop and run furniture-making workshops at appropriate sites, this will require appropriate investigation into costs, viability, expected returns etc
• run the furniture making workshops through linking in with local centres of higher education. Additionally, there are excellent, established furniture makers in the community who may wish to help develop and run the woodschool
• promote the uniqueness of these hand crafted, high quality pieces and their benefits to sustaining the local woodland-landscape.
• Display and sell the finished products at the proposed Capel Mill and through NT newsletters etc.

Interested? Phone 01452 814371