East England

Regional Contact: Justin Mumford BSc(Hons) MSc MICFor 
Director, Lockhart Garratt, 8 Melbourne House, Corbygate Business Park, Weldon, Corby, Northants NN17 5JG
T 01536 408840  M 07977 560198 F 01536 408860  E justin.mumford@lockhart-garratt.co.uk

Diary Dates 2013

Click here and scroll down for East England events and meetings

For ICF events click here.

For RFS events click here.

Read the minute of the regional Steering Group meeting of Febraury 2013, minute of the Regional AGM held on 2nd June 2009, together with a letter from the Regional Chairman.

Forestry Commission 

For your regional Forestry Commission pages follow these links:
East England
East Midlands

Woodfuel

Whether you are a small business owner interested in finding out more about installing a woodfuel boiler, or a woodland owner interested in the opportunities that woodfuel represents, you can find a wealth of information on the Biomass Energy Centre website and use the Information Enquiry Service. http://www.biomassenergycentre.org.uk/ for further information in your region visit www.forestry.gov.uk/england-woodfuel and http://www.woodfueleast.org.uk/.

Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE)

The Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) is jointly funded by the EU, through the European Fund for Rural Development and the Government.  It has a budget of £3.9bn and will run till 2013.  Of the total budget, £3.3bn has been allocated to agri-environment and other land management schemes including Environmental Stewardship and the English Woodland Grant Scheme.  Some £600m has been made available to make agriculture and forestry more competitive and sustainable and to enhance opportunity in rural areas... read more

The following woodland initiative offers business support and advice: http://www.syforest.co.uk/.

Deer Initative East England

Read the DI EE report to ConFor Spring 2011 here

Read the DI case study - The East of England Wild Venison Project