Community Woodlands Association

Welcome!

The Community Woodlands Association was established in 2003 as the direct representative body of Scotland’s community woodland groups. We help community woodland groups across the country achieve their aspirations and potential, providing advice, assistance and information, facilitating networking and training, and representing and promoting community woodlands to the wider world.
Read more on the background of CWA

Making Sustainable Places: CWA Conference and Seminar

The annual conference for community woodland groups will take place from 8th - 9th November in Glenrothes in Fife.  Non member community woodland groups are welcome. The event will feature presentations, workshops and site visits with a ceilidh on Saturday night and the CWA AGM on Sunday afternoon.  Click on the link below for further details.

There will also be a seminar for professionals working with community groups on 7th November. Entitled "Green networks, empowered communities" it will focus on community involvement in managing urban woodlands, the benefits to communities and the environment and the ways in which this can be achieved.

Click this link for booking forms and draft schedules.

Local People Leading

The CWA supports the Local People Leading Campaign.  Specifically, Local People Leading calls on the government to commit their support to the following key actions:

Action 1: Put power in the hands of local communities.
Action 2: Review and extend the scope of Land Reform (Scotland) Act.
Action 3: Enable the transfer of public assets into community ownership.

Click here to find out more and to register your support.