Along with other makers from around the world, London Green Wood are taking part in an online fundraising auction for the people of Ukraine. All proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross DEC Ukraine Appeal. Please get involved; tell your friends, neighbours and family and help us help! London Green Wood members are donating […]
Tag archives: spooncarving
Mental Health Awareness month
LGW coop member and tutor Samuel Alexander on why he loves spoon carving and how it helped him to recovery from depression and anxiety: ” As we approach the end of mental health awareness month, I’d like to share with you just how important green woodworking is to me and how by practicing a heritage […]
Lockdown 2
The workshop is now closed due to the second national lockdown. Courses have been rescheduled and membership has been suspended until we can open again. Online courses are back: after school Whittling for Families on Thursdays, £14 per household; after work Mindful Whittling: Carve a Spatula, £14 per person; and a session for Friday evenings […]
Free wood for distant spoon carvers
Although the workshop is now closed, we have arranged with Hackney Council that we can visit the workshop once a week to prepare a supply of wood for isolating spoon carvers. Every Monday we will leave a box of spoon sized wood for anyone who’s carving at home to take away. Please do not contact […]
Tips for carving at home
Whittling and spoon carving are an excellent therapeutic, productive, useful and creative activities and we hope it will bring all those benefits to those who take it up. However it’s even more important to stay safe when learning at home with no teacher to keep an eye on you, so we’ve written some brief tips […]
SPOONFEST 2019
Spoonfest is held each year on the first weekend of August, in Edale, Hope Valley, Derbyshire, UK. Situated in the heart of the Peak District at the start of the Pennine Way, between Manchester and Sheffield. Tickets will be on sale on Sunday 28th April 2019 HERE Festival Tickets go on sale at 11am (UK […]
Spoon Carving, Kolrosing & Chip Carving with Adam Hawker
London Green Wood are very excited to welcome Adam Hawker as a guest tutor at the workshop, all the way from Dorset, in London for one weekend only! Saturday 30th & Sunday 31th March 2019 About Adam After spending ten years swinging from trees as an arborist and tree surgeon, Adam decided he needed a […]