• Managing Harvesting Contractors. CWA Information Note no. 32

• Employing a Community Forester. CWA Information Note no. 9

• Timber Sales Guide. Institute Chartered Foresters

Managing Harvesting Contractors. CWA Webinar. April 2024.

Associated webinar resources:

• Guidance on managing health and safety in forestry. Forestry Industry Safety Accord (FISA)

• Managing Harvesting Contractors - webinar slides

Preparing and Writing a Request for Tenders. CWA Webinar. August 2024

Along with the other information in the Topics section, the templates and examples below may help CWGs get started with tasks they might not have encountered before.

Some of the templates can be downloaded and edited or adapted as required. All of the templates come from community groups or organisations that have given CWA permission to share them, or they link you back to the source website.

The featured templates are models – please ensure you get legal advice if necessary.

PDF format examples - uneditable

• Draft Timber Sale Contract. Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF)

• Timber sale contract - standing trees by weight. Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF)

Templates - editable when downloaded

• Thinning Tenders Returns Form - template

• Timber Out-Turn Sale Agreement - template

• Timber Out-Turn Invitation to Tender - template

• H&S, Insurance and Managing Tree Risk

• Woodfuel

• Income Generation and Financial Management