RDI’s Northwoods Office is holding a free evening event to highlight grant opportunities available to the timber haulage sector.  The event will focus on support for Central Tyre Inflation (CTI) systems in the North East – with 40% grants currently available towards equipment and installation costs through the bioeNErgy scheme.

A centenary exhibition commemorating the Bellingham flood of 1911 will run between Friday 5th August and Thursday 15th September at the village’s Heritage Centre.

Northumberland Community Flooding Partnership and Tyne Rivers Trust have contributed information boards for  the exhibition.

If you produce firewood, woodchips or pellets as a fuel, or are considering using them as a fuel, this course is a must.  It introduces the latest standards for solid biofuels in use in the UK, provides the methodology for sampling fuel and covers quality assurance processes. The course involves a practical on how to sample fuel products accurately.

Cost:  £33+VAT (with LandSkills funding), £113+VAT (without LandSkills funding).

15 FREE PLACES WORTH £150 EACH for eligible Merseyside businesses and organisations

Make sure your timber harvesting contract runs smoothly from the start.

This one-day introductory training course will equip you with the knowledge to draw up, market and manage a timber harvesting contract. It will be delivered by leading experts. You will learn how to:

A unique opportunity to obtain up to date information on the impacts of climate change on woodland management and the timber trade and how to cope with, and profit from, the effects. The day is rounded off with a visit to the woodlands at Staunton Harold to look at how to put into practice some of the issues discussed.

Topics & Speakers include: –

If you produce firewood, woodchips or pellets as a fuel, or are considering using them as a fuel, this course is a must.  It introduces the latest standards for solid biofuels in use in the UK, provides the methodology for sampling fuel and covers quality assurance processes. The course involves a practical on how to sample fuel products accurately.

An outline of the course content is available here.

Cost:  £55+VAT (with Woodfuel East funding), £160+VAT (without Woodfuel East funding)

Developed by foresters with practical hands-on knowledge of woodland management and woodfuel production and supply, this course provides an introduction to managing woodlands for woodfuel production.  It provides an introduction to crop assessment and measurement and covers the methods of timber harvesting in use today.  It looks at the suitability of these for different woodland types and the economics of timber harvesting and woodfuel production at both the farm and estate level.

This course is a must for all firewood producers.  It provides participants with a background to firewood production and supply drawing on real market economics and covers the technical aspects of producing and delivering firewood as well as quality control.

An outline of the course content is available here.

Cost:  £55+VAT (with Woodfuel East funding), £160+VAT (without Woodfuel East funding).