Case
Studies

Making Local Woods Work was a 3-year, UK-wide, National Lottery funded project designed to support the development of Woodland Social Enterprises. The project, which ran from 2016-19, produced a number of case studies and films which can be accessed from the links below.

Knoydart Forest Trust

Abriachan Forest Trust

Making Local Woods Work films

In 2015 CWA was commissioned by Forest Research to deliver 6 Scottish case studies documenting various community governance models, and which paid particular attention to communities' technical management decisions - knowledge, advisory sources, decision-making processes. The groups covered were Abriachan Forest Trust, Borders Forest Trust, Dunnet Forestry Trust, Forres Community Woodlands Trust, North West Mull Community Woodland Company and the Sunart Oakwoods Initiative.

• Six case studies of Scottish Community Woodland Groups. (File size: 904KB)

Llais y Goedwig - our sister organisation in Wales - has produced a set of case studies looking at specific aspects of development in eleven Welsh community woodlands; these can be accessed at:

Llais y Goedwig case studies

The set of 33 case studies below were produced between 2012 and 2014 as part of a Forest Research project which looked at community forestry projects in Scotland, England and Wales. Some case studies were written by the community group, others by researchers who visited and interviewed group members, but all were validated and endorsed by the respective community groups.