Looking back on National Conference 2026
Our National Conference 2026: Innovation for a Resilient Tomorrow brought together forestry and arboriculture professionals from across the UK for two inspiring days of learning, discussion, and networking at ICC Wales in Newport. The conference programme explored a wide range of topics shaping the future of the sector, including technological innovation, artificial intelligence, forest resilience, […]
Be a tree champion – Scotland’s Finest Woods opens applications for new Executive Director and trustees
Scotland’s Finest Woods is pleased to announce it is welcoming applications for a new Executive Director, following the decision by Jean Nairn to step down after four years of excellent work promoting the very best of woods and forests in Scotland and the people that care for them. The charity is also looking for up […]
Scottish conference to put nature at the heart of urban design and planning
Highlighting the importance of early and sustained collaboration between planners, designers, developers, arboriculturists and engineers in improving outcomes for trees. Scotland’s built environment professionals will come together on 17 June in Stirling for the Trees and Development Conference 2026, a one-day event focused on why trees succeed or fail in development and what needs to change to […]
Landscape Institute to welcome key speakers to Scotland housing conference
Màiri McAllan MSP (Scottish Government) and Karen Anderson (Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland) will join plenary sessions exploring how a landscape-led approach to housing delivery in Scotland is essential for people, place and nature. The Landscape Institute (LI) is pleased to announce the programme and speaker lineup for the Scotland edition of its National […]
Celebrating excellence at Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards 2025
A school which has taken lessons on climate change out of the classroom and into the real world, and a project using trees to stop a notorious flooding problem are among the champions honoured at this year’s Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards. When you add in a project to plant free nut and fruit trees in […]
A look back at our Centenary National Study Tour 2025
The Institute’s Educational & Scientific Trust (EST) funded one Student member to attend the Centenary National Study Tour in October at Windsor Great Park. The selected student was Alice Haylock who currently works for the Forestry Commission (FC) as a Development Woodland Officer, and is in her second year of the degree-level Professional Forester Apprenticeship […]
Highlights from our South West England Member Network agroforestry event
In May 2025, the South West England Member Network hosted their annual spring event focusing on agroforestry and the North Devon Silvopasture Trials. Members were invited to Whiddon Down Village Hall in Devon to hear from the Woodland Trust and a Devon-based farmer before heading out to North Wyke Farm to visit one of their […]
New chair at Scotland’s Finest Woods to champion people, passion, innovation and success
Scotland’s Finest Woods is pleased to announce that Wilma Harper MBE FICFor CEnv has been selected as its new chair. A Chartered Forester and Chartered Environmentalist, Wilma has been a trustee of Scotland’s Finest Woods since June 2017 and replaces Guy Watt FICFor who has been a Trustee since 2009 and served as chair for […]
Hutton research inspires artists behind digital installation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The artist collective behind a groundbreaking new digital installation at London’s Kew Gardens has credited research by The James Hutton Institute as part of their inspiration. Of the Oak opened to visitors on Saturday 3 May, showcasing the story and inner workings of the Lucombe oak with a multi-sensory video installation. The installation is Kew’s […]
Prestigious awards presented at ICF Centenary National Conference 2025
The Institute of Chartered Foresters’ (ICF) Centenary National Conference 2025: Celebrating the Past, Inspiring the Future took place in Edinburgh on 29 & 30 April, with several highly prestigious ICF awards being presented to well-deserving, long-serving members who have played vitally important roles in shaping both the Institute and the sector. The awards were presented […]