Our Awards
Woodland Heritage have previously awarded annual awards. For example, The Peter Savill Award for a significant contribution to British Forestry was inaugurated in 2007. The Prince of Wales Award for the best student on the Woodland to Workshop course began in 2010. Both were awarded annually by Woodland Heritage, normally during the Field Weekend.
In the years since, forestry, using wood, and the charity itself has changed so much. Trustees are reviewing what place awards have in achieving the charities mission and look forward to providing updated information in the coming months.
Gary Battell -receiving the Peter Savill Award from Peter Savill in 2017
The Peter Savill Award
For a significant contribution to the British Forest Industry
THE PRIZE
Each year Woodland Heritage awards a prize to recognise the contribution of an individual who has significantly benefited British forestry.
CRITERIA
The contribution to forestry made by the selected individual must be in sympathy with the objectives of Woodland Heritage, and in one of the following areas of forestry: silviculture; research; marketing; wood processing; education. Normally the prize will focus on a contribution to one of the above areas with an emphasis on Britain, broadleaves and lowland forestry, although not exclusively so.
PAST WINNERS
2022 John Makepeace OBE
2021 Lord Gardiner of Kimble
2020 Dr Gabriel Hemery & Prof Julian Evans OBE (joint award)
2019 Sir Harry Studholme
2018 Prof A R (Jo) Bradwell
2017 Gary Battell
2016 Dr Joan Webber
2015 Bede Howell
2014 Felix Dennis
2013 Miles Barne
2012 Dr Christine Cahalan
2011 Keith Rawling
2010 Will Bullough & Gavin Munro (joint award)
2009 John McHardy
2008 Andy Poore
2007 Susan Bell OBE
DR PETER SAVILL FICFoR
One of the most respected and influential forestry academics of the last half-century, the author or
co-author of numerous papers, books and publications, up until September 2006, when he retired, Peter was a Reader in Forestry, Oxford Forestry Institute, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Linacre College and University of Oxford. Peter was a Woodland Heritage Trustee for 17 years from 1999 to 2016, as well as being a former Chairman of both Future Trees Trust and Sylva Foundation.
John Jackson - receiving the Prince of Wales Award 2016 from Geraint Richards, Head Forester for the Duchy of Cornwall and Woodland Heritage Trustee
The Prince of Wales Award
The Trustees of Woodland Heritage were delighted in 2010 to announce that our Patron, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, was to generously give a trophy to our charity, ‘The Prince of Wales Award’ , which has been presented annually since then, to an outstanding young person who has attended the ‘Woodland to Workshop’ course.
We have now entered the tenth year of our courses and by the end of this year over 250 individuals will have benefited from this unique experience. The tutors are delighted with how well the course has been received and are particularly encouraged by the enthusiasm of those taking part. It gives us great hope for the future!
‘The Prince of Wales Award’ continues to serve as yet another excellent incentive to encourage our aspiring neophytes, the recipients of which have been:
2021 Daniel Hofgartner
2020 Courses not held due to Covid 19
2019 Rachel Johnson
2018 Neil Girvan
2017 David Smyth
2016 John Jackson
2015 Nicholas Hill
2014 Finbar Vesey
2013 Nina Williams
2012 Tabitha Binding
2011 Matthew Cope
2010 Luke Hemmings