Picture this!
A network of woodlands and workshops hosting open days across the UK.
Forestry estates and smaller woodlands, nurseries and sawmills, artists and architect’s studios, furniture factories, makers and beyond!
Some spaces open to visitors all day. Other places host small group tours.
What unites everyone is the desire to champion homegrown timber and sustainable productive woodlands for present and future generations.
Open Woods & Workshops launches June 2025
In June 2025 hosts will open their woodland or workshop.
This accessible initiative, stretching across the UK, helps you learn about Wood Culture and boost your understanding of growing, milling and making within the UK.
Grow trees or use wood? Well, Open Woods & Workshops helps you establish and build connections with others in the timber supply chain.
Just keen to learn? If you’re outside the timber supply chain, maybe you just love trees, then you can learn about the country’s wood culture, its incredible places and people, and find out what is needed to support it.
Thinking about your work? You can learn about the possibilities of careers in forestry, sawmilling, making, research and associated industries by meeting people doing that work, right now!
Open Woods and Workshops will raise funds for Woodland Heritage, allowing Open Woods and Workshops to grow and to support the charity’s wider mission.
Coming soon …
Registration will open in February 2025.
Current hosts include The Duchy of Cornwall and Goodwood Estates as well as smaller woodlands. The charity will host open days at James Wood, Somerset and Whitney Sawmills, Herefordshire and makers Gaze Burvill, John Makepeace OBE and many more will open their doors and gates!
In the meantime sign up to be the first to learn about Open Woods and Workshops events near you.
Donate to Open Woods & Workshops
Open Woods & Workshops will boost wellbeing, connect wood growers and users, promote sustainable productive woodlands and nurture our nation’s wood culture. By donating to this appeal you can help to deliver these impacts.
With generous support from John Makepeace OBE.
Hosts gallery
Please note: The current images below are placeholders, images and event listings arriving soon!
Dear Woodland Heritage members …
This new project evolves the annual Field Weekend to bring the many positive impacts of sustainable, productive woodlands and wonderful workshops to a bigger audience.
Woodland Heritage members can become Open Woods & Workshop hosts. Woodland Heritage is your hub, helping woodland and workshop owners to share their passion and expertise across the nation.
As a member, you will receive advance notice to book for open events.
You can become a member for as little as £3 a month for personal memberships, or £50 per month for corporate membership. Use the button below to find out more.