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The transformation of a wood near a primary school and learning in a local forest saw success in the Schools and Early Years categories at the Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards 2025. Hardgate Primary S...
With the UK Government’s ambitious target to increase tree and woodland cover in England to 16.5% by 2050, the demand for skilled professionals in forestry has never been greater. A Forestry Sector ...
Geraint Richards MVO FICFor, Head Forester to the Duchy of Cornwall and Past President of the Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF), has been awarded an OBE for services to the Forestry Sector in The...
A coalition of leading horticulture and landscape industry organisations has today announced the submission of a joint letter to the UK Government, calling for the removal of VAT on SPF 30+ sunscreen....
The Institute of Chartered Foresters' AGM took place online on Wednesday 4 June and saw six new Council Members elected. Headed up by new President Andrew Sowerby FICFor and Vice President Dr Gary Ker...
Following the Institute of Chartered Foresters’ Annual General Meeting on 4 June 2025, a new President and Vice President have been appointed. Andrew Sowerby FICFor was elected President as the succ...
Emyr Parker is one of two candidates selected for the Young Professional Foresters’ Exchange Programme (2024-2025) and is spending three months in New Zealand working for Juken NZ. Emyr has shared a...
Scotland’s Finest Woods is pleased to announce that Wilma Harper MBE FICFor CEnv has been selected as its new chair. A Chartered Forester and Chartered Environmentalist, Wilma has been a trustee of ...
Please see below a press release from the Chartered Institute of Horticulture that was published in May 2025. 12% of survey respondents had been diagnosed with some form of skin cancer, accordi...
Our monthly policy and research blog updates you on the latest work at the Institute and how you can get involved. Institute news Welcome to the second bi-monthly Policy Roundup of 2025, from the ...
