COPPICE ASSOCIATION North West

Members' Products and Services

Last updated October 25, 2008

Edward and Romola ACLAND, Oakswood. Sprint Mill Burneside, Kendal, Cumbria LA8 9AQ Tel 01539 725168 Suppliers of quality pea sticks, bean poles, hedging stakes, and hurdle making material. Green Wood Workshop available for demonstration

Amazon Nails, Strawbale Building, Training and Consultancy, Hollinroyd Farm, Todmorden, OL14 8RJ. Tel 01706 814696 Email info@strawbalefutures.org.uk Website www.strawbalefutures.org.uk Consultants, trainers and designers in strawbale and sustainable building. Courses, construction drawings, volunteer projects and advice.

CARBON COPPICE, Greystones, Torver, Coniston, LA21 8BJ Mob. 07795 320409 Tel. 015394 41864 Charcoal, firewood, peeled oak poles and other coppice products
Helen ELVIN, Elvin Crafts, 9 Old Hall, (Cleator, Cumbria CA23 3DB Tel 0 196 811938 Email timelvin@talk21.com Forest Schools Leader using woodlands to inspire and challenge young people: school grounds development making interactive structures from wood; garden furniture and willow sculptures - animals always popular, signs awed to order; demonstrations and coppice work

Hannah Ehlert, timbertales - each tree tells a story 12, South Rd. Lancaster LA1 4XDTel.: 07951 545914, Email: timbertales@googlemail.com|
Children´s WoodPlayDays and greenwoody birthday parties. Greenwood workshops in schools and with community groups. Living willow tipis and domes. Hazel
wattle hurdles. Coppice crafts, commissions, demonstrations and teaching. Spoon carving workshops and wooden christening or marriage spoons. Coppice work and felling.

Peter FREEMAN, FDL Environmental, 38 Southport Road, Scarisbrick, near Southport, Lancashire, PR8 5JE. Tel. 01704 538940. Email peter@fdlenvironmental.co.uk. Website:- fdlenvironmental.co.uk. Ancient and modern woodcrafts, chainsaw carving, household & patio furniture, garden art. Commissions undertaken for portable or in-situ sculpture. Demonstrations & woodcraft training. Also tree services, specialising in formative pruning and relationship of trees to buildings, hedgelaying & dry stone walling, woodland management.

Steve FULLER & Simone SIEGAN, WILLOWPOOL DESIGNS, 9 Weston Houses, Dove Nest Lane, Endmoor, Kendal, Cumbria Tel 015395 67056 Mob 07773161761 Email livingwillow@hotmail.com Web www.geocities.com/willowpool Contemporary & Traditional Willow Artists. Specialists & Pioneers in Living Willow Work & Sculptures. Living Willow Play Structures: Domes,Tunnels, Mazes, Birdhides, Fences, Animal Sculptures & Basketry. We Work extensively with schools, groups & garden designers. We will travel to any U.K location

GREENWOOD TWIGGS Tel 01257 480845 Mob 0773 4353202 Coppiced products, Greenwood demonstrations, Charcoal production, and Woodland Management
Owen JONES, Spout Meadow, High Nibthwaite, Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 8DF Tel. 01229 885664 Oak swill baskets; plaster laths; gate hurdles, charcoal, besoms; courses, demonstrations and talks

Walter LLOYD, Lakeland Willows, Fairview Lane, Staveley in Cartmel, Cumbria LA12 8NS Mob. 077400 53794 Consultancy - charcoal production and marketing; Willows for basketry, ornamental, shelter, sculpture, bioengineering, biomass, yurt building; Snigging with ponies. Demonstrations of rope making using various fibres.

Charlie MILES, Stoneraise, Westward, Wigton, Cumbria CA7 8LY Tel. 016973 43894 Coppice products, Coppice renovation products e.g. timber poles; Tool care and manufacture; Man-power; Winch & extras; Tree climbing etc

James MITCHELL, 1 Windermere Road, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 4QJ Tel. 01539 736154 Mob. 07817 412685 Email james@jmitchell8.wanadoo.co.uk: Woodland Crafts; Indoor/outdoor furniture,structures and sculpture; Teaching and demos on a range of woodland crafts.

Edward MILLS FICFor, 5, Beech Court, Birkrigg Park, High Carley, Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 0UH Tel 01229 582551 Email edward-pam@woodisgood.fsnet.co.uk Advice on all aspects of tree planting, woodland management, coppicing, and grant aid, coppice products and marketing

Rebecca OAKS, 93, Silverdale Road, Yealand Redmayne, Carnforth, Lancs LA5 9TD Tel 01524 781375 Coppice Merchant - hurdles, charcoal, besoms, coracles, logs, coppice products. Consultancy, teaching, talks and demonstrations

Maurice PYLE (Woodsmith) 107 Queens Road Whitley Bay Tyne and Wear 0191 252 4064 / 07802 571 641 Email maurice@mpwoodsmith.co.uk Websites www.mpwoodsmith.co.uk and www.woodsmithstore.co.uk Buy-on-line books, tools and devices for traditional woodland craft. Including axes, adzes, drawknives and froes from Gransfors Bruks; pole lathe turning tools, carving tools and twybils from Ashley Iles; froes, drawknives, scorps and rounders from Ray Iles and a good range of Frosts knives

Alan SHEPLEY, Tod’s Lot, c/o 108 Bellingham Road, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 5JU Tel/Fax 01539 723325 Email admin@todslot.co.uk Website www.todslot.co.uk To remember an event, a special occasion, a person - enquire about a tree in a Commemorative Wood in a glorious south Lakeland setting. Courses for organisations and groups in woodland ecology and natural history, history of woodlands, forestry, and wood processing: Illustrated talks

Charles and Shirley STEWART, Penrith, area Cumbria Mob 07713 627 455 Email ibeinn@dialstart.net Charcoal, coppicing, felling, tree planting, firewood subject to availability.

Sue SWATRIDGE, 107 North Road, Carnforth, Lancashire LA5 9LX Mob. 07771 644565 Furniture maker, coppice worker, demonstrations and commissions etc

Ian TAYLOR, Lakeland Coppice Products, Ramree, Brigsteer Rd, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 5DY Tel 01539 738835 Mob. 07813 696161, Website www.lakelandcoppiceproducts.co.uk Charcoal, firewood, oak structures, cleft oak fencing, oak shakes, hand hewn oak beams, coppice products also Erik Frost carving knives, spoon knives and Gransfor's axes.

Ruth THOMPSON, ‘Sylvan Skills’, 13 Oak Street, West Mickley, Northumberland NE43 7AY Tel&Fax 01661 842074 info@sylvanskills.co.uk and ruth.thompson@lapwingcrafts.co.uk Living willow screens and arches for your garden: Play structures for kids - domes, tunnels, dragons!: Hurdles, wigwams and border edgings: Practical courses in making your own willow structures

Nick WHITAKER 46 Chorley New Road, Lostock, Bolton. Lancs. BL6 4AL. Tel 01204 697256 Email nwhitaker.woodlands@virgin.net Charcoal, firewood, besoms, hurdles, willow and demonstrations. Woodland management, planting, design, harvesting and Advice.

Geoff WHITLEY, Tree-Incarnations, Flat 2, The Post Office, The Square, Scorton, nr Garstang, Lancashire Tel 01524 793202 Mob. 0770 870 5498 Interpretational pieces for nature trails, schools, public open spaces, private gardens and corporate venues. Also chainsaw carving and woodcarving demonstrations; beginners and school workshops.

"Woodcraft", Pole lathing, longbows, Demo's and guided walks on coppice management.Tel; Tony on 07928348877

WOODLAND WAYS (Louise & Brian CRAWLEY), Stable Cottage, Lightburn Road, Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 7ND Tel. 01229 583467 Mob. 07721 007379 Consultancy in coppice and charcoal

Peter WRIGHT (Products of the Wood), c/o Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria. LA21 8AD. Tel: 01229 462080 Email pete@gbd.org.uk Website: www.gbd.org.uk Charcoal, besoms, tables, benches, chairs, stools, whistles, door wedges, paper knives, cord pulls, walking sticks, flowers, sculptures & carving, ‘treen’