Excellence in Forestry - Overview
The RFS Excellence in Forestry Awards are now established as the country’s premier competition, recognising the wise management of trees and woodlands and supporting schools that are involved in promoting learning from seed to saw at all ages.
Forestry has a lot of good stories to tell. Our RFS Excellence in Forestry Awards provide a platform to get those messages across, both within the forestry industry and to the public at large. As the UK’s largest and most diverse forestry charity, the RFS is well-placed to lead on this.
The RFS Excellence in Forestry Awards are designed to match the broad remit that forestry and woodland management has in the 21st Century – based on the maxim of best forestry practice and quality timber production as the driving force. They move around England, Wales and Northern Ireland on a seven-year rotation.
Details of the 2009 and 2010 winners are in the News section of this website (visit 2009 and 2010). The 2010 winners were presented with their awards at the Bentley Weald Wood Fair in Sussex on 17 September.
In 2011 the competition moves to Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Suffolk and the Greater London boroughs north of the River Thames. A new category, ‘Small Woodlands’, for woodlands up to 20ha replaces and incorporates the Farm Woodland Award in 2011.
Categories are:
There are prizes of £1000 for the winner and £500 for the runner up in each category. Entries must be received by 8 March 2011, and judging will be held in May and June 2011.
More details of the categories will be available soon on this website. You can also register an early interest by contacting the RFS competition co-ordinator, Trefor Thompson, by email: rfscompetition@boyns.net.
Your company or organisation could become a sponsor to. To find out how, download the sponsors’ pack by clicking on the link below.
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