About the workshop

The workshop was hosted by Wooplaw Community Woodland, and chaired by Donald McPhillimy and Angela Mercer.

It consisted of ten people around a table, during the weekend which marked Wooplaw Community Woodland's twentieth anniversary as one of Scotland's pioneering community woodlands.

The people taking part were:

Eoin Cox - Woodschool and buy Design; founder member, Wooplaw Community Woodland

Anna Craigen - Community Liaison and Education Officer, Borders Forest Trust; director, Wooplaw Community Woodland

Bob Fleet - green woodworker; wood turner; director, Wooplaw Community Woodland

Ed Iglehart - artist and environmental activist; founder member, South West Community Woodlands

Nigel Lowthrop - founder, Hill Holt Wood

Donald McPhillimy - woodland consultant; director, Reforesting Scotland; founder member of Wooplaw Community Woodland

Angela Mercer - long-term active member of Wooplaw Community Woodlands, Borders Forest Trust, and the Community Woodlands Association

Ulrich Leonig - founder of the Centre for Human Ecology

Bob Stock - director, Wooplaw Community Woodland

Mike Trevett - director of Action for Change, a social enterprise business

Emma Chapman - writer - was present to help record the event