Forestry Commission events
A calendar of online and face-to-face Forestry Commission events, and details of shows and exhibitions we are attending.
Applies to England
We attend a range of events to give advice on planting woodland, and what grants are available.
We also hold training events and webinars on specific funding schemes and areas of forestry. We encourage you to sign up in advance to ensure your place.
We update this events page regularly.
Upcoming events
BurwartonHealthy ShowWoodlands in the South East: Bedgebury Forest
7Date: August28 2025June (Shropshire)2025
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281 AugustJuly 2025 (Buckinghamshire)(North Yorkshire)
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Alresford ShowGroundswell
62 Septemberto 3 July 2025 (Hampshire)(Hertfordshire)
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10Dates: 4 to 116 SeptemberJuly 2025
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AgroforestryGreat Yorkshire Show
10Dates: 8 to 11 SeptemberJuly 2025 (Hertfordshire)
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Tendring Show
Date: 12 July 2025 (Essex)
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1319 Septemberto 20 July 2025 (Hampshire)
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Agroforestry Show
5Dates: November10 to 11 September 2025 (Hertfordshire)
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National TreeForestry Officers Conference
5Date: November8 October 2025 (Berkshire)
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Previous recorded events
Ash dieback and the Tree Health Pilot
This webinar hosted by the Forestry Commission details the ash dieback grant offer within the Tree Health Pilot.
Watch the video: Ash dieback and the Tree Health Pilot (webinar
Societal benefits of trees, woods and forests in England
This webinar hosted by Forest Research looks at work by the Society and Environment Research Group on the societal benefits of trees, woods, and forests in England.
Watch the video: Societal benefits of trees, woods and forests (webinar)
Red Squirrels and forestry operations
This webinar hosted by the Forestry Commission offers advice on how to plan and carry out forest operations in woodlands to minimise the possible impacts on red squirrels.
Watch the video: Red squirrels and forestry operations (webinar)
Search our YouTube channel for more previous events.
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Updates to this page
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Added the Westmorland County Show, Herefordshire Rural Hub Business Advice Day and National Tree Officers Conference.
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Deleted an event that has passed.
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Added Weald of Kent Ploughing Match.
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Removed expired events.
Update history
2026-07-15 16:21
2 new events added: Women in Timber Seminar and the National Forestry Conference.
2026-07-13 15:31
Removed Women in Forestry as Rebecca Maude added it in error. Also removed 2 other events as the dates had passed.
2026-07-08 14:35
Two previous events have been deleted, Groundswell and Bugthorpe Woodland walk. Also 2 events were added BIFoR Annual Meeting 2026: The Remembering Forest and Women in Forestry.
2026-07-01 13:31
Removed 4 events – The Royal Norfolk Show, Woodland & agroforestry advice drop in, getting trees in the ground – online and the Woodbuild 2026.Added 1 event – Managing new woodland.
2026-06-24 12:24
Removed 3 events – Lincolnshire Show, How to apply for Tree Production Innovation Fund and Trees and woodland grants and support workshop.
2026-06-17 13:02
Removed 3 events, Defra June farming updates, Cereals and Royal Three Counties show.Added new event WoodBuild 2026.
2026-06-10 12:06
Deleted a past event.
2026-06-04 14:33
Removed past events and added 10 new: Defra June farming updates, Royal Three Counties Show, Lincolnshire Show, Tree planting workshop and farm walk, Royal Norfolk Show, Woodland and agroforestry advice drop in, Groundswell, Bugthorpe woodland walk, National Landscapes Conference, and Tendering Show.
2026-05-27 16:31
Removed past events and added 1 new event: Cereals 2026.
2026-05-21 12:38
Removed past events and added 5 new events: 3x OPM awareness days, Devon County Show and the Royal Cornwall Show.
2026-05-14 15:09
Deleted past events.
2026-05-06 09:30
Deleted past events and added 2 new webinars: how to apply to the TPCG and TPIF.
2026-04-29 10:52
Deleted past events.
2026-04-22 10:44
Deleted past events and added 1 new event: Protecting Water – Actions for Farmers.
2026-04-21 16:31
Deleted past events and added 7 new events: EWCO application training day, Woodland creation farm walk – Huntingford Farm, The Challenges of Managing a Woodland in the High Weald of Kent, CSHT Deer & Squirrel Impact Surveys, Heathfield Show, Northumberland County Show and the Great Yorkshire Show.
2026-04-10 09:51
Added 2 new events: Beyond the Bark and Timber and Getting trees in the ground.
2026-03-26 15:56
Deleted past events and added one new event: Woodland grants – intro for landowners.
2026-03-18 16:22
Deleted past events.
2026-03-11 15:59
Deleted past event.
2026-03-05 09:41
Deleted past events and added one new event: The stalking show in Staffordshire.
2026-02-25 10:56
Deleted past events and added 1 new event: The state of the UK’s oaks.
2026-02-18 11:05
Removed past events and added 1 new event: Practical land management to benefit nature and your farm business – Brigstock.
2026-02-12 10:19
Removed past events, added the National Conference 2026: Innovation for a Resilient Tomorrow and updated the webinars listed to: Writing species management plans for grey squirrels and deer; Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier: PAWS, ASNW and resilience supplements; First steps towards woodland creation.
2026-02-03 16:35
Added Catchment Sensitive Farming’s 3 Harbours Farming Workshop.
2026-01-28 09:41
Deleted past events and added new events: Rootstock, Eco Park Woodland Weekender, Isle of Wight Farming Conference, Kent Farm Expo and 2x Woods for water workshops.
2026-01-21 12:36
Removed past events.
2026-01-15 16:23
Updated event details for ‘Put trees to work roadshow – Elmesthorpe’ to the correct date and location: Feb 23rd at Elmesthorpe.
2026-01-14 12:16
Removed past events and added 3 new events: LAMMA, Farm Safety Event and a Supplytrain CIC webinar.
2026-01-02 11:23
Added South West grey squirrel summit.
2025-12-17 14:15
Removed event.
2025-12-17 12:07
Added new events: Agroforestry in practice: realising the potential of trees, 6 Put trees to work roadshows and the South East and London Forestry Agents’ Forum.
2025-12-10 11:56
Removed past events and added 2 new events: Woodland Trust tree giveaway collection day and Farming your woodlands.
2025-11-26 09:35
Deleted past events.
2025-11-20 13:49
Removed past events and added 3 webinars: Writing species management plans for grey squirrels and deer; Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier: PAWS, ASNW and resilience supplements; Planning to planting: designing your woodland;
2025-11-14 12:09
Removed past events and added 2 new events: Britain’s Forest Future: Research-Practice Exchange and Confor UK Policy Conference.
2025-11-11 12:22
Removed past events and added 5 new events: Midlands Machinery Show, Tree selection and grants – a woodland event, Best Practice Venison Forum and 2x Woodland Giveaway days.
2025-10-29 13:08
Added the Farm Business Innovation Show.
2025-10-29 09:42
Removed past events and added a new online event: Planning to planting: first steps towards woodland creation.
2025-10-22 10:08
Removed past event.
2025-10-15 10:17
Removed past events.
2025-10-09 16:28
Added 8 events: Trees on farm: resilience and connectivity, Farming roadshow: support and resilience – Thame, Protecting trees from mammal damage, Farming roadshow: support and resilience – Wantage, Farming roadshow: support and resilience – Southampton, Woodland creation – delivering your EWCO project, Farming roadshow: support and resilience – Isle of Wight and Farming roadshow: support and resilience – Petersfield.
2025-10-08 12:02
Added Trees and woodlands as nature based solutions (21 Oct) and Woodland creation and management: best practice for game (23 Oct).
2025-10-01 10:27
Removed past events and added 1 new event, titled ‘Trees on your land: planning, planting and managing’.
2025-09-24 12:28
Removed past events and published 4 events as part of the series ‘Discover support and opportunities for tree planting’.
2025-09-17 09:55
Added ‘Farm diversification and resilience workshop’ at Yeomadon Farm.
2025-09-17 09:32
Removed past events.
2025-09-10 11:41
Removed past events.
2025-09-03 10:24
Removed a past event.
2025-08-28 09:21
Added two new events: a farm walk at The Grower Tree Nursery, and a farm resilience workshop at Grascott Farm.
2025-08-13 09:59
Removed past events and added 7 new events: Farm walk and talk, Farm walk at Orchard Park Farms, West Grinstead Ploughing Match, Collingham Show, East Kent Ploughing Match, Brailsford Ploughing Match and Woodland communications day.
2025-07-30 15:02
Added the Westmorland County Show, Herefordshire Rural Hub Business Advice Day and National Tree Officers Conference.
2025-07-23 15:41
Deleted an event that has passed.
2025-07-16 10:42
Added Weald of Kent Ploughing Match.
2025-07-09 12:12
Removed expired events.
2025-06-25 10:11
Added Burwarton Show.
2025-06-18 15:54
Removed outdated events and updated the link for the National Forestry Conference.
2025-06-11 13:10
Added the National Forestry Conference.
2025-06-04 12:18
Added 7 events: Royal Cornwall Show (5 June), Lincolnshire Show (18 June), Ash dieback: response and resilience (1 July), Groundswell (2 July), Stansted Summer Festival (19 July), Bucks County Show (28 August) and Alresford Show (6 September).
2025-06-03 10:27
Removed the event ‘Healthy Woodlands in the South East: Crawley Down’ as it’s cancelled.
2025-05-28 13:22
Removed past events.
2025-05-21 13:37
Added Rural Communities Funding Webinar, Northumberland County Show, and Suffolk Show.
2025-05-13 13:05
Added 3 x Healthy Woodlands in the South East events.
2025-05-08 08:56
Added Agroforestry Open Weekend 2025, Oxford Real Farming Conference, Kent County Show and Tendring Show.
2025-04-30 13:12
Added Tree Health Clinic.
2025-04-30 10:41
Added 4 events for the recently opened tree and seed production grants: Tree Production Innovation Fund (TPIF) knowledge transfer webinars, Tree Production Innovation Fund (TPIF) ‘how to apply’ webinar, Tree Production Capital Grant (TPCG) ‘how to apply’ webinar and Seed Sourcing Grant (SSG) ‘how to apply’ webinar.
2025-04-24 08:49
Added 2 events: Great Yorkshire Show and Agroforestry Show.
2025-03-19 18:03
Added Towards the London Tree Ring on 28 March.
2025-03-06 11:15
Added Bridging Borders: Forestry Conference.
2025-02-13 12:58
Removed old events.
2025-01-28 10:26
Added events: ‘Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier webinar’, 5 x Farming Roadshows (Faversham, Woodchurch, Edenbridge, West Sussex and East Sussex), ‘Forestry Agents’ Forum – South East and London’, and ‘Unlocking opportunities for farm businesses: productive forestry’.
2025-01-09 10:02
Added NFU Conference and Low Carbon Agriculture Show.
2024-12-17 12:16
Added Kent Farming Conference, Norfolk Farming Conference, Lincolnshire Farming Conference and Isle of Wight Farming Conference.
2024-12-11 11:19
Added LAMMA Show 15 to 16 January.
2024-12-04 16:57
Added Oxford Real Farming Conference.
2024-11-12 11:35
Added the event Woodland Creation and Deer Management (27 November).
2024-11-01 09:52
Added the event ‘Benefits and incentives for new woodland planting’ on 11 November.
2024-10-09 14:59
Added Farm Business Innovation Show. Changed the dates for ‘Forestry Facing the Future: eDNA, ecosystems and international commitments’ from October 2024 to February 2025.
2024-10-09 09:25
Removed out of date events.
2024-10-02 10:16
Added Midlands Machinery Show.
2024-09-18 12:51
Added a series of online events from: “Forestry Facing the Future: a 50-year horizon scan”.
2024-09-11 11:11
Added Woodland Creation – Delivering your EWCO Project, Chichester Ploughing Match, and Woodland Condition Assessment webinar.
2024-08-29 15:51
Events added: Call For Land Summit and Woodland Communications Day.
2024-08-14 10:55
Added: Halstead Ploughing Match, Managing deer across the English landscape, Basingstoke and District Ploughing Match, British National Ploughing Championships and Borderway Agri Expo.
2024-08-08 11:57
Added: Hampshire Countryside Day, East Kent Ploughing Match, West Grinstead Ploughing Match, Weald of Kent Ploughing Match, Brailsford Ploughing Match, Herefordshire Rural Business Advice Day and West Country Farming and Machinery Show.
2024-08-02 12:04
Added: Farmers Weekly: Alternative Land Use, Pie in a Pub: Carbon and Woodland Talk and The Dairy Show.
2024-07-24 10:47
Added The Collingham Show and Southwell Ploughing Match.
2024-07-17 12:36
Added Westmorland County Show and Tenbury Show.
2024-07-10 13:31
Added Driffield Show.
2024-07-03 11:30
Added events: Edenbridge & Oxted Agricultural Show, Alresford Show, Moreton-in-Marsh Show, Hampshire Country Sports Day, Newbury Show and National Forestry Conference 2024.
2024-06-27 13:44
Removed the event ‘Next Generation Pizza & Pimms (Cumbria)’, now postponed.
2024-06-27 09:24
Removed past events.
2024-06-12 10:23
Removed outdated events.
2024-06-05 12:27
Removed outdated events and changed the date for the Woodland Creation and Deer Management event.
2024-05-31 12:36
outdated events removed.
2024-05-23 09:05
Added ICF Agroforestry Day and Woodland Creation and Deer Management in Shropshire.
2024-05-17 09:09
Corrected error with date: changed Cheshire Show from July to June.
2024-05-15 10:21
Added Bucks County Show, Royal Cheshire County Show and Kent County Show.
2024-05-08 14:45
Added: Royal Bath and West Show, Royal Cornwall Show, Devon County Show Awards, Burwarton Show, and Wiltshire Game & Country Fair.
2024-05-01 11:26
Added events: Nottinghamshire County Show, Cereals 2024, CLA North: Next Generation Pizza & Pimms, Royal Norfolk Show and Lincolnshire Show.
2024-04-24 10:26
Added Suffolk Show.
2024-04-18 13:25
Added Heathfield Agricultural Show.
2024-04-11 14:18
Added events: Alternative Land Uses: Agroforestry, Land agent and advisor EWCO training day, Northumberland County Show, Transition Live and updated information for the Association of Professional Foresters event.
2024-04-02 10:54
Added the following events: National Shooting Show and Honley Show.
2024-03-20 09:44
Removed old events.
2024-03-13 10:30
Added East Lancashire trees and woodland advice drop-in.
2024-03-06 12:59
Added events: Association of Professional Foresters (APF 2024) and Groundswell.
2024-02-29 11:16
Added Tendring Show and Essex Young Farmers’ Show.
2024-02-28 10:00
Added Woodland Creation Clinic and East Anglian Game & Country Fair.
2024-02-22 09:06
Past events removed.
2024-02-15 09:55
Added West Midlands Combined Authority 13 March.
2024-02-15 09:26
Added NFU Conference (NFU24) 20-22 February.
2024-02-08 10:51
Removed past events.
2024-02-01 10:14
Added event details for Rootstock Conference (14 February) and Great Yorkshire Show (9 July).
2024-01-24 11:00
Added new events for 6, 8, 13 and 15 February.
2024-01-17 12:47
Added the ‘Grow your business’ event for 7 February.
2024-01-11 11:58
Added 3 events: 24 January, 6 and 20 February 2024.
2023-12-28 09:11
Added 2 events: 15 January 2024 and 1 February 2024.
2023-12-20 12:02
Removed past events and added the Project WIDGET event on 24 and 30 January 2024.
2023-12-07 16:08
Added CLA roadshow events 11 – 14 December.
2023-11-23 15:18
Added a video link to the HS2 Woodland Fund webinar.
2023-11-17 13:28
Added new events in December.
2023-11-02 13:11
New events added
2023-10-12 09:35
Updated with new events
2023-10-05 10:48
New events added
2023-09-06 16:08
Added an event
2023-08-11 12:35
Added further events
2023-07-31 10:01
Added events in August and September
2023-07-06 09:31
Added a new event
2023-06-29 09:30
Added a show
2023-06-21 14:16
Updated with two new events in July
2023-06-08 08:43
Updated to reflect events in June and July 2023
2023-03-30 15:54
Updated to reflect events in April, May and June 2023
2023-01-24 10:42
New events added for February and March 2023.
2022-11-17 14:10
First published.