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Commonwealth NGOs
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 Community Woodlands Association
17 St Valery Place
Ullapool, Ross-shire
IV26 2TD
U.K.
Email: dianec@community-woods.org.uk
Website: www.community-woods.org.uk
Type: NGO
Scope: local
Interest in Forestry: central
Description
Our aim is to help community woodlands across the country achieve their aspirations and potential, by
supporting, representing and promoting community woodlands both in the corridors of power,
and "on the ground".
Recreation - providing wide-ranging opportunities for outdoor recreation, from informal paths and "all-ability"
facilities to mountain bike trails and orienteering courses;
Biodiversity - restoring and expanding native woodlands, and carrying out habitat improvement within
other forest types, to conserve and enhance Scotland's biodiversity;
Rural development - increasing the value of forestry to local communities, creating jobs and developing
local processing and markets for timber and non-timber forest products;
Renewable energy - developing local supply chains and markets for woodfuel, to help reduce our dependence
on fossil fuels and support sustainable forest management;
Social inclusion - involving all sections of the community in planning and decision-making, and ensuring
that the benefits of community woodlands are available to all;
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