2024 Conference. Presentations.

To view available powerpoint presentations click on the titles below.

Friday

  1. Keynote Speech: Growing Future Foresters: Lessons from the American Mid-West. Amanda Bryan

  2. Delivering the Forestry Strategy: progress supporting more people and communities to benefit from using, managing and owning woodlands. Dr Amy Nicolson, Urban Woodlands and Communities Advisor, Scottish Forestry.

    Amy will provide an update on the recent work by Scottish Forestry and partners to deliver Scotland’s Forestry Strategy and its ambition to increase the number of people and communities benefitting from the use, management and ownership of woodlands, the continued partnership with the Community Woodlands Association, and plans for the future.

  3. Forestry and Forestry Grant Scheme John Risby. Conservator. Highlands and Islands

  4. A Year in CWA

    The CWA team shared information about their achievements over the year, including the introduction of our mentoring schemes. Amy Clarkson (Applecross Community Company) and Adrian Clark (Evanton Community Wood) who both worked with our professional foresters this year briefly shared their experiences.

Saturday

  1. From Field to Community Forest, the funding, the fallouts and all the fun in between! John Hitchcock - SEAChange Trustee, Collieston, Aberdeenshire

  2. Re-energising a community woodland. Anagach Woods Trust. Hamish Napier

    Anagach Woods is a 1000 acre community-owned native pine woodland in Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland. The woods are more than three times the size of the adjacent town, an impressive ratio of green-space to built-up area. Hamish Napier, a director of Anagach Woods Trust shared Anagach Woods Trust's recent management plans, fundraising efforts, online engagement and forest maintenance work, which all furthering the engagement of the local community in caring for Anagach Woods - a beautiful sanctuary for wildlife and essential green space for people.