The Living Classroom

Project Description

To create a living classroom within an area of working woodland at Bonsley Wood, Shillingstone, Dorset. The woodland will provide an education/leisure facility, be a venue for woodland working courses and instruction, create a learning experience in an open space, and highlight environmental and the economics of a sustainable managed working wood.

Project Proposer

Dorset Coppice Group

Amount Awarded

£148, 935

Amount Levered

£21,773 Leader Plus, Awards for All £4110, Rural Renaissance (pending).  In kind donations from members time, forestry commission, woodland area.

Performance Indicators

Amount of public space improved

Number of sites with improved access to public

Number of education/training initiatives implemented

Map

Please click here to see location of project number 29.

Photos

Timescale

April 2005 to March 2006.