Draft Welsh Budget for 2025/2026 set out
The Labour government in Wales set out its draft budget on Tuesday 10 December and the Institute plans to follow its development closely. The document sets out that the administration’s Climate Change and Rural Affairs (CCRA) portfolio will see an additional £36 million in resource funding – an increase of 6.61% – and an additional […]
Future of Timber platform launched
Fresh into her new role as Technical Policy Manager, Caroline Harrison MICFor attended the launch of the Future of Timber platform developed by Evolving Forests. Funded by Built by Nature, Scottish Forestry Trust, Forestry Commission and Egger, this is the result of a year of conversations filmed, recorded and brought together in an intriguing and beautifully […]
Survey on managing access in ancient woodlands
The Forestry Commission, supported by Footprint Ecology, is evaluating access management in ancient woodlands through a questionnaire designed for site managers and woodland owners. They want to hear about access measures you have implemented and their effectiveness in promoting responsible behaviour, reducing impacts, and protecting ancient woodlands. The questionnaire is available here and should take […]
Institute appoints new Technical Policy Manager
We are delighted to announce that Caroline Harrison MICFor will be joining the Institute team in November as our new Technical Policy Manager. Caroline is a Chartered Forester with some 30 years of forestry and wood supply chain experience. She is a Cumbrian who, before she found her passion for forestry and settled in Devon, […]
Policy Roundup – August 2024
Our monthly policy and research blog updates you on the latest work at the Institute and how you can get involved. Institute news With Summer drawing to an end, we’re looking ahead to a busy autumn events calendar, with a highlight being the anticipated Horizon Scan series. Read all about this partner webinar series below, […]
Share your views on first aid certificates in land-based apprenticeships
Adrow Ltd is seeking members’ views to clarify and improve the first aid qualifications needed in land-based apprenticeships. The agriculture, arboriculture, countryside, forestry, horticulture and landscaping trailblazer groups are checking the approach taken to mandating first aid certificates in apprenticeship standards. Currently some occupational standards limit mandated first aid courses to Nationally Regulated Qualifications (Ofqual […]
Policy Roundup – July 2024
Our monthly policy and research blog updates you on the latest work at the Institute and how you can get involved. Institute news UKFS e-learning This month we launched an accredited e-learning programme to help tree professionals get to grips with the latest edition of the UK Forestry Standard (UKFS), which comes into effect in […]
UK Government appoints new Minister for forestry
With a new Labour government now in power, Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has appointed his cabinet, including Steve Reed OBE as the Secretary of State with overall responsibility for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). On 18 July 2024, Mary Creagh (elected MP for Coventry East) was announced as Defra’s […]
Policy Roundup – June 2024
Our monthly policy and research blog updates you on the latest work at the Institute and how you can get involved. Institute news Trees for People, Place and Nature: Growing Trees for Tomorrow’s Needs As the Royal Chartered body for professionals working with trees in the public, private and third sectors, we represent a broad […]
The Environmental Policy Forum sets out priorities for the next UK Government
Ahead of the UK General Election on 4 July, the Environmental Policy Forum (EPF) has outlined the environmental priorities the next government must implement with urgency during its time in office. A coalition of professional bodies and learned societies, the EPF was established to promote environmental sustainability and resilience for the public benefit. The Institute […]