ACT have won the award for "The most innovative woodland project demonstrating community benefits" at The London Tree and Woodland Awards 2008!
Broadcaster Clive Anderson and presenter Tony Kirkham (Trees that made Britain) launched the first London Tree and Woodland Awards during an evening reception and awarded certificates and hand turned wooden bowls to the winners of five categories.
The ACT won the award for the category
"The most innovative woodland project demonstrating community benefits".
Here's what they had to say about us:
"In recent years there has been considerable work to reclaim Birch and Rowdown Woods in Croydon as a place for the community. Over the last five years a local team has cleared tons of fly tipped rubbish from the woods. They have also worked with the police to clamp down on motorbikes being ridden through the woods, re-introduced coppicing to supply products to their local allotment society and played a key part in the delivery of the Capital Woodlands Project in Croydon. Through the project, the group has grown in strength and size and they are now undertaking surveys to develop a management plan to ensure the woodlands long term sustainability."
The awards were presented during 'Making London's Woodlands Work', the Capital Woodlands conference.
This month Making London's Woodlands Work brought people together who work to conserve and enhance London's trees and woodlands for a celebration of the Capital Woodlands project's achievements and to discuss current and emerging topics affecting the future London's woodlands.
We were delighted to be joined to by Corinna Woodall of HLF and Paul Hill Tout, Director of the Forestry Commission, who welcomed delegates to the conference and highlighted the value of urban woodland projects to the work of the organisations and sector they represented.
A range of speakers gave presentations upon themes of work developed during Capital Woodlands including: Strategic approaches to Woodland Management, Building Partnership with local Communities, Using Urban Woodlands as education resources, the Social and Cultural connections with woodlands, Woodfuel and London's woodlands and Woodland Management Skills and Training. Download the presentations and a new series of Best Practice Guideline, by the Forestry Commission here.