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 Alexis Pym on 01234 762 614

Woodland crafts
Chain saw sculptors
Forestry machines
Horse logging
Have A Go sessions
Furniture making
Swing boats

Children’s activities
Charcoal making demos
Green energy
Story telling
Beer tent & hog roast
Farmers’ market

Live music

Loads to do for all the family!

Visitors enjoy the chance to see professional crafts people at work, sample locally produced food and drink, relax with live music throughout the weekend and, at the top of the list for many; return home with an array of unique and inspiring purchases, made from materials harvested from woodlands in the region.

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.

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!

Want to take a stall at Woodworks! 2008?

Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th September 2008

Do you work in woodland in or around Bedfordshire? Do you make or work with products associated with woodlands in Bedfordshire? If so, the Forest Team would like to hear from you.

If you would like to be an exhibitor, demonstrator or trader at Woodworks! 2008, or if you are a local business keen to show your green credentials by supporting WoodWorks! please email us or if you would like to talk to someone, call Alexis Pym at the Forest of Marston Vale: 01234 762614

All proceeds from Woodworks are ploughed back into the Marston Vale Trust (charity No. 1069229) to create the Forest of Marston Vale.

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. Silverlink County t: 08705 125240
	By bus > info line t: 01234 228 337 or click on http://www.stagecoachbus.com/timetables/venus180207WEB[1].pdf
	By cycle > the Park is on Route 51 of the National Cycle Network (Sandy / Bedford / Milton Keynes)

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.

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.