Fundraising Planning Applications Forest Concepts Suitable for Community Woodlands Mapping for Community Woodlands Securing Tree Safety Tree Health and Biosecurity Managing Harvesting Contractors Deer management in community woodlands CWA Annual Conference 2025 2025 Tickets 2025 Presenters 2025 Workshops 2025 Site Visits 2025 Friday Evening Menu 2025 Stallholders Urban Woodlands site visit Kilsture Site Visit Ticks - to be respected not feared Income Generation Maintaining a Strong Board Dronley CW Site Visit Tree Identification Diversitree West Lothian Site Visits Dunnet Community Forest Site Visit Tarras Valley Site Visit AI & Funding Applications iNaturalist App - benefits for woodland groups How to be Heard Paths and Trails CWA Annual Conference 2024 2024 Tickets 2024 Presenters 2024 Workshops 2024 Site Visits 2024 Ceilidh 2024 Stallholders Funding Support 2024 Preparing and writing a request for tender Rhododendron Control Community Engagement - ASR Tree Seed Collection Creating Woodlands Fire Safety in Woodlands Carsphairn Site Visit Firewood Production Huts and Hutting Knoydart FT and Arkaig CF Site Visits Getting Fit to Fundraise Introduction to Local Democratic Finance Community Enterprise. Accelerate Workshop Woodland Biosecurity Abriachan Forest Site Visit Orchard Fence Building CWA Conference 2023 Presentations CWA Annual Conference 2023 How to write a good woodland plan Health and Safety and Risk Assurance in Woodland Management Understanding Carbon and Ecological Systems, and alternatives for funding
 

CWA was set up by its members in 2003 to support new, aspiring, and established community woodland groups, to achieve their aspirations. CWA also promotes and represents community woodland groups within the political arena and to the wider world.

Find out more about us and what we do and provide by checking out popular pages highlighted below, or by exploring the different sections in the menu bar at the top of the page.


Become a Member

Click on the images below to find out how to become a member, the benefits of membership, and about our members mentoring scheme. Find out more about our current membership - check out our members map and members list.


Find out more about CWA

Curious about what CWA does, and who we are (staff and trustees)? You can also take a look at our annual report and accounts, and consultation responses.


Browse what’s on offer - to everyone

Take a look at our range of resources and opportunities, which are free and open to all, including Training Events, a monthly Bulletin, quarterly Newsletter, Information Notes on a wide range of woodland related topics, and Templates to get you started with some of the more formal tasks.


Read about CWA projects, past and present

One of the ways CWA helps promote and represent community woodland groups within the political arena and to the wider world is through the delivery of focused projects.


The work of CWA is supported financially by Scottish Forestry

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