Sustainable Woodland Management AIM L3
: 03 Feb 2025 - 05 Feb 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
A course designed for new or aspiring woodland owners and managers who want to manage their woodlands to balance environmental, economic and social benefits.
Bird cup carving
: 08 Feb 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Learn to carve your very own beautiful bird cup, using traditional tools and techniques.
Kuksa carving
: 09 Feb 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Carve your very own Scandinavian style Kuksa using traditional tools and techniques.
Weaving with Brambles
: 15 Feb 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Learn how to turn these often misunderstood vines into beautiful baskets using a variety of techniques.
Introduction to Coppicing
: 22 Feb 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Spend a day in our small coppice woodland, learning how to safely and effectively cut, present, and process hazel coppice.
Spoon carving
: 22 Feb 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
This course will help beginners get started, and those wanting to progress their technique further to try out more advanced designs.
Creating Coppice Products
: 23 Feb 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Spend a day turning freshly cut coppice wood into useful and saleable products.
We’ll start with the basics – hedging stakes, beanpoles, weaving rods & pea-sticks – before moving on to splitting and weaving with hazel, and investigating different and perhaps entirely new coppice creations!
Bowl carving
: 23 Feb 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Learn how to carve your very own bowl using traditional tools and techniques.
Relief Carving in Wood
: 01 Mar 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Gain a great introduction to wood carving skills and how to set yourself up to carve at home.
Tool sharpening
: 02 Mar 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
An immersive day learning how to sharpen a wide variety of green woodworking tools.
Willow Hurdle Making
: 22 Mar 2025
Using a traditional Somerset pattern, you will be taught how to make a woven willow panel to take home
Green Wood Stool Making
: 22 Mar 2025 - 23 Mar 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Experience the joy of cleaving & shaping beautiful freshly cut green wood over two action-packed days. Choose between two timeless designs – the woven seated ‘footstool’ or the wooden-topped ‘milking-stool’ – and work ‘from log to stool’ to cleave, shape, and assemble your very own unique green wood stool.
Hazel Hurdle Making
: 23 Mar 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Find out how to make a traditional woven hazel hurdle, working alongside a professional hurdle maker.
Gate making with sweet chestnut
: 29 Mar 2025 - 30 Mar 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Design and build a rustic sweet chestnut gate to take home. You will be guided through the entire process by an expert tutor, using traditional tools and techniques.
Bowl carving
: 05 Apr 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Learn how to carve your very own bowl using traditional tools and techniques
Bird cup carving
: 06 Apr 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Learn to carve your very own beautiful bird cup, using traditional tools and techniques.
Spoon carving
: 12 Apr 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
This course will help beginners get started, and those wanting to progress their technique further to try out more advanced designs.
Kuksa carving
: 13 Apr 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Carve your very own Scandinavian style Kuksa using traditional tools and techniques.
Make a bendy hazel chair
: 26 Apr 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
This 1 day course is ideal for learners who are keen to make a lovely chair from a bundle of coppice hazel rods, using a drill, saw and hammer.
Shrink pot making
: 27 Apr 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Shrink pots originate from Scandinavia, and are traditionally used for storing dry goods in the kitchen and pantry. Beginners and more experienced carvers all welcome on this course.
Coracle Making
: 03 May 2025 - 04 May 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Build an Ironbridge-style coracle using simple tools and techniques to suit all levels of experience and ability.
Ash splint basketry
: 10 May 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
This course will take you through the full process of creating your own unique Ash Splint Basket.
Coracle Making - 3 Day course
: 22 Aug 2025 - 24 Aug 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Build an Ironbridge-style coracle, using simple tools and techniques that suit all levels of experience and ability.
Coracle Making
: 11 Oct 2025 - 12 Oct 2025
: The Green Wood Centre
Build an Ironbridge-style coracle, using simple tools and techniques that suit all levels of experience and ability.
