News

Here is our Spring Newsletter – a roundup of our activities from the last few months including a warm welcome to new GiB certificate holders, updates on Forestry Innovation Fund projects with the National Trust, plus a few bits you may not have seen.

2022 marked the start of our three year Regional project with the GiB certificate holders, the National Trust. This is one of three pieces of work being carried out by GiB, funded by the Forestry Innovation Fund.  From the Lake District down to Herefordshire this regional project is focusing on connecting up supply chains within […]

Also under the banner of a Forestry Innovation Fund project, “A New Seat At The Table”, we’re delivering a new supply chain for ash boards and ash plywood to develop a range of GiB certified furniture with ercol, the iconic British furniture brand and newly-certified Grown in Britain certificate holder!  A family- run business established over […]

We’re thrilled to share the news that the nation’s first public gardens to be Plant Healthy certified are Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh and RHS Harlow Carr! Congratulations to all involved, this is a tremendous step in demonstrating the importance of biosecurity and the Plant Healthy certification in the public eye!

Now 6 Months into our Forestry Innovation Fund project with soon-to-be-GiB-certifed Scandinavian Timber, “<TIC_22 ”, the necessary and exciting stages of R&D are being checked-off. Curtain Walling is a modern, flexible façade system that creates unbroken floor to floor glazing which would be impossible with an unsupported window system. These systems are highly valued by […]

Bristol-based Veya Homes have been awarded the first ever GiB Project Certificate for the completion of four new homes in Rangeworthy, using 82% UK-grown, locally-sourced timber throughout the build. Initial analysis of three existing build projects showed that 91% of the timber used was from non-UK sources. This figure is partly due to limited availability […]

As part of a 10 year programme, Make Good: Rethinking Material Futures , starting in February 2022, the V&A Museum partnered with the Sylva Wood School to deliver the Field Notes Summer School in summer 2022. The Field Notes course took 12 diverse creative practitioners with interests in wood as a material, and forests and woodlands […]

As we enter National Tree Week 2022, GiB welcomes the additional support announced by Defra for woodland creation. The £20 million forms part of the Nature for Climate Fund and will improve tree planting stocks, woodland resilience, domestic timber production and accelerate tree planting across England.  The major investment will support projects developing new technologies […]