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

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
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 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.

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

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 click the 'Info for Exhibitors' link to the left. If you would like to talk to a person, call Alexis Pym at the Forest of Marston Vale: 01234 762614 or Jackie Brown on 01787 221830.

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

Live music thoughout the weekend!!

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 to the Stagecoach website
	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.