Interested in trees, woodland crafts and stories,

Bedfordshire's countryside and woodlands,

local and global forests and the health of the planet?

Then WoodWorks! is for you.

Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th September 2008

A whole weekend of fun and activities

If you are interested in becoming a corporate sponsor of this event, please contact Mike Hitchcock on 01234-762610

Woodworks! 2008 is going to be amazing!!

The festival is bursting with things for all the family to see and do

Now in its 6th year, the festival grows ever more popular with countryside and music lovers alike thanks to an inimitable blend of folk and roots music alongside artists, crafts people, growers, woodland managers, tree surgeons, story tellers and enthusiasts who together create a  weekend of woodland inspired fun, music and activity.

This year we are delighted to welcome back to the main arena the British Lumberjacks Association and The English School of Falconry who both thrilled visitors to last year’s show. New for 2008 is the Woodworks ‘Carve-Up’ a spectacular group display of chain-saw speed carving culminating in a daily Woodworks’ auction.

Thanks to London Midland Trains and the Community Rail Partnership there will be a full service running throughout the weekend from Bedford and Bletchley, with regular shuttle buses from Millbrook station to the Forest Centre

Woodland crafts

Chain saw sculptors

Forestry machines

Farmers’ market

Loads to do for all the family!

Visitors can see professionals at work demonstrating the traditional crafts of bow and arrow making, basket weaving, thatching, wood-carving, charcoal burning and more. There are also plenty of have a go opportunities for children and adults from archery to tree climbing.   Visitors can find out about green energy and wood fuel, and browse an array of stalls selling arts, crafts, furniture, tools and local produce. There’s also a farmers market, story-telling, face-painting, kids craft activities, traditional fair-ground rides, a beer tent and local produce, food and drink.

Woodland Heritage

Woodworks! is about putting people in touch with their heritage of woodland in this part of England. We are very lucky still to have awesome ancient woods that have been managed intensively for over a thousand years. Most of these woods; trees, plants and animals, have been shaped by man's work. They depend for their conitinuity on being cut regularly. They are productive and renewable, for wildlife and wood.

You can help save the planet

For every wooden dish, chair, broom, basket or garden table you buy, made from material cut in a local woodland, that's one thing not made from plastic or from wood cut from a threatened forest in another part of the world.   Entry is £5 per person £3 concessions and children under 16 are free!

Come to Woodworks! 2008 with your wallet and you will:

• make a cash contribution to the local woodland economy

• make a contribution to reducing the loss of forest, especially in tropical areas of the world where tree cutting will lead to extinctions of great apes (and myriad other species) unless we change our purchasing habits.

A serious message behind a fun weekend!

Supporters of Woodworks! 2008

We would like to express our sincere thanks to the following organisations who made important contributions to Woodworks! this year.

www.chipandpinsolutions.com

Getting there

By car > leave the M1 at junction 13 and follow the tourist signs to Marston Moretaine & the Park.

By train > the Park is just a few minutes walk from Millbrook and Stewartby railway stations. London Midland: 0845 602 4277

By bus > info line t: 01234 228 337 or click on to the Stagecoach website

By cycle > the Park is on Route 51 of the National Cycle Network (Sandy / Bedford / Milton Keynes)