The logo for Project TreeCycle was designed and produced by Strathmiglo artist Miss Sarah Burt.

Receiving timber for the project kindly donated by the Givenbank Park committee in Glenrothes.  In return we will, once process, contruct a few park benches for the park. 

Taking delivery of our new Headquarters building!

The Group has purchased a large amount of kiln dried beech timber for use during the craft workshops with Dave McKeen. You can see our volunteers Heather, Sean, Scot and Nick with Dave and project officer Cazz Burt picking up the timber.

Simon Lockwood, Scottish Native Woods, with Paul Coakley and George Halkett loading the first Douglas Fir onto the woodmiser.

More news on TreeCycle
to follow this week. 7th Jul 08

April 08 - UPDATE - WE DID IT! WE now have the funding in place for an 18month TreeCycle project!!!!! Thanks to all those who have helped get us this far, and for the wonderful people at the Heritage Lottery Fund office in Edinburgh who were kind enough to grant us £25,000 under their Young Roots programme.

 We have now recruited a project worker to help us young ones organise the project and training.  See below for further details.

Project Treecycle is an exciting new partnership project lead by the young volunteers of the Fife Air Cadets Conservation Group (FACCG) and Falkland Heritage Trust, and is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund under their Young Roots programme.

This is an 18 month project that is open to all young volunteers to learn about the lifecycle of a tree.  Training opportunities in woodland care and management, craftsmanship using traditional techniques, and the construction of a timber frame building, is just a small part of our aspirations for Project Treecycle.

To read a bit about the Project if you are just visiting the site see below.  If you are a visitor and would like to get involved with our project please get in touch we would love to have you along! 

We can't start the project before we hear about the grant, but we can work on putting things in place.  If we are not lucky then we will have to work very hard bag packing in supermarkets and fundraising other ways to get some money to do the project.  The first thing we would like everyone to do is design a logo for the project. Have a good think about it and sketch it out. All entries to the TreeCycle Team by 29 March 08.  We think it would be good to have a logo that we can use to promote the project.

For now keep up the hard work at projects. love Paul, Ash, Heather, Nick, Jodie, Scott, Lou and everyone else.

The project will be based on Falkland Estate where we will carry out a comprehensive programme of training opportunities & practical tasks relating to woodland care and craftsmanship.

Over 18 months all of us youngsters in the Group, and any young person in Fife that would like to get involved with us (get in contact with us now), will learn about the history and life cycle of wood on Falkland Estate, learn practical skills such as tree planting, propagating, pruning, felling, crafting wood into furniture and ultimately designing and creating a traditional wooden bothy for use by volunteers when working on Falkland Estate.

The training workshops will be led by certified trainers, with opportunities to attend further study on recognised environmental courses and training if we can get some funding.

We will take responsibility for woodland care in an area of the estate with the support of skilled experts. The programme of woodcraft and timber construction training coupled with the woodland conservation tasks will give us the education and skills for the whole lifecycle of wood, from seed to a table. Or in our words TREECYCLE

Please watch this page for more information.