Oxfordshire Woodland Group

The Oxfordshire Woodland Group are delighted to report that Sovereign Housing has approved the award of a grant to The Oxfordshire Woodland Group to assist the group with the purchase of chainsaws & associated equipment together with personal protective equipment and training to support our hedge laying skills training programme as part of our Forest Wellbeing and Countryside Skills project.

The award was made through The Oxford Community Foundation with the support of Woodland Heritage.

Persons wishing to get involved in hedge laying work in South Oxfordshire should get in touch with the Executive Trustee in the first instance to join in our work in the great outdoors where you can get some excercise, develop countryside skills and in so doing help improve the visual amenity of the countryside. This is a great way to help lift those winter blues.

Ken Hume

On 21st & 24th March 2016 an Oxfordshire Woodland Group representative attended a 2 day chainsaw and small tree felling training session held at Hill Farm, East Hendred organised by West Berks and Oxon Training. This training session formed part of recent The Sovereign Housing award and focussed on providing training to fell small trees up to 200mm diameter and extraction of hung up trees.

Dave Garson was the LANTRA trainer.

This course was organised by Sarah-Jane Hatcher at :-

West Berks and Oxon Training Group
Kilmarnock House
Unit 1 Woolley Barns
Woolley
Oxfordshire
OX12 8TA
Office Tel - 01488 639981
Mobile Tel - 07919 430312

Ken Hume