I thought it would be useful in this, the first newsletter of the year, to outline our plans for 2008, as the industry's generic wood promotional campaign. click here

Code for Sustainable Homes to be mandatory from 1st May 2008
On the 27 February 2008 the Government confirmed mandatory rating against the Code will be implemented for new homes from 1 May 2008... click here

Gehry and wood get together in Kensington Garden
This year's garden pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery is going to be a wood and glass extravaganza by Frank Gehry... click here

Get your name in lights at the 2008 Wood Awards
Call for entries now open... click here

wood for good in Defra initiative
In conjunction with BWF and the Wood Window Alliance, we have recently been involved in a new initiative with Defra... click here

Why do we need a Wood Window Alliance?
There's a new Briefing Note, the seventh in the series, explaining all about it... click here

New website spreads the word
Over 5,000 wood for good publications are being downloaded every month... click here

Over 1,400 people now registered to learn about wood
In the first two months of 2008 the number of people using wood for good's Online Learning rose by no less than 42%... click here

Wood for Gold
So far this year, two Parliamentary lunches have been held... click here

Industry gets together on lobbying
A meeting of the major industry bodies was held on January 23rd as a follow-up to last year's Norton House Summit, which sought to clarify the respective roles of the different organisations representing the industry... click here

Breakthrough project with merchants launched
The co-operative project between wood for good and TRADA to provide quality timber information to builders through timber and builders' merchants is launched this month... click here

Coillte Panel Products and wood for good join forces to develop OSB & MDF Online Learning modules
Two important new additions to wood for good's RIBA CPD accredited Online Learning resource have been launched this month... click here

We're bringing Members up to date
Look out this April for the 2008 update for your pack...
Members will be receiving updates for their packs in April. If you have mislaid your pack, or would like an extra copy, email Eve at eve.dennehy@woodforgood.com

UK sawmiller Pontrilas Timber pledges renewed support for wood for good
The Herefordshire-based family business, which started in the village of Pontrilas in 1947, expressed renewed support today for the wood for good campaign... click here

Welcome to Online Learning
One of the characteristics of today's timber industry is the sheer breadth of technical expertise it contains... click here