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To cancel a booking, you must inform us either by:

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Cancellations received within 14 days of booking your place on the course will receive a full refund.

Cancellations received after the 14-day cancellation period and later than 14 days before the start date of the course will not be eligible for a refund.

Refunded fees can be transferred to another course of the same type. Please contact the office to discuss.

 

Make a traditional (English bodgers style) shave horse

: 14 Jun 2025 - 15 Jun 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

Learn how to make your own shave horse in the traditional English Bodgers style. Customised to suit your size and comfort, it will allow you to explore other greenwood crafts.

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Introduction to Woodland Management AIM L3

: 17 Jun 2025 - 18 Jun 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

Build the background knowledge needed to manage your woodland sustainably, and work towards creating resilient, productive woods. Tailored to your individual needs, you are encouraged to share details of woodlands you are familiar with to aid your learning.

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Introduction to Woodland Management - AIM L3

: 28 Jun 2025 - 29 Jun 2025

: Old Ley's Wood, Devon

This immersive and interactive two-day course will help you to build the background knowledge needed to manage your woodland sustainably, and work towards creating resilient, productive woods.

Liverton Village Hall is our venue for the classroom based elements, and practical learning will take place at Old Ley's Wood, a 17 acre site rich with broadleaf trees and diverse flora and fauna.

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Spoon carving

: 28 Jun 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.

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Bowl carving

: 29 Jun 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

Learn how to carve your very own bowl using traditional tools and techniques

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Make a split hazel 'swallow's nest' basket

: 05 Jul 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

Learn how to make a split hazel ‘swallow’s nest' basket - a mini version of the traditional ‘whisket’. Split Hazel Basketry is classified as critically endangered by the Heritage Crafts Association so you'll also be helping to keep these skills alive!

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Introduction to Green Woodworking

: 12 Jul 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

A great opportunity to become familiar with the the key elements of green wood crafts, and have a go at a range of different techniques.

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Make a Mike Abbot style 'lumber' horse

: 13 Jul 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

Designed by green wood chairmaker, teacher and author Mike Abbott, these slightly crude but wonderfully functional shave-horses are assembled using lengths of 4x2, sturdy screws, simple tools, and a cordless drill.

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Sustainable Woodland Management AIM Level 3

: 05 Aug 2025 - 07 Aug 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

Designed for new or aspiring owners and managers, who want to balance the environmental, economic and social benefits of their woodland. Two days of classroom sessions are followed by a practical skills assessment and woodland products day.

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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.

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Make a rustic hazel stick chair

: 06 Sep 2025 - 07 Sep 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

Use hazel rods to make a unique rustic chair, with a woven seat. Create your own design and master some solid green woodworking techniques!

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Paddle Making

: 20 Sep 2025 - 21 Sep 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

Work alongside an established boat builder and artist to make your own personalised paddle.

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Ash splint basketry

: 05 Oct 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

This course will take you through the full process of creating your own unique ash splint basket, from selecting the appropriate wood to weaving techniques.

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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.

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Tool sharpening

: 18 Oct 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

An immersive day learning how to sharpen a wide variety of green woodworking tools.

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Relief Carving in Wood

: 19 Oct 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

Gain a great introduction to wood carving skills and how to set yourself up to carve at home.

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Make a bendy chair with hazel

: 25 Oct 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

Ideal for anyone who wants to begin learning or build on their existing green woodworking skills - spend a day making a beautiful, bendy hazel chair from a bundle of coppice hazel rods.

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Shrink pot making

: 26 Oct 2025

: The Green Wood Centre

Shrink pots originate from Scandinavia, and are traditionally used for storing dry goods in the kitchen and pantry. They can be made so the bark is left on, or can be peeled or carved and maybe painted; there are many creative opportunities!

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Gate making with sweet chestnut

: 01 Nov 2025 - 02 Nov 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.

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Introduction to Coppicing

: 29 Nov 2025

This course is a great opportunity to spend a day in our small coppice woodland, learning how to safely and effectively cut, present, and process hazel coppice.

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Creating Coppice Products

: 30 Nov 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!

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Restoring 'Lost' Ancient Woodlands

  • Woods Mill, Henfield
  • 12 Jun 2025
Join us on this one-day course to learn the basic skills you need to identify and sustainably manage ancient woodland, and help biodiversity thrive once more. more...

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