Following Prince Andrew’s recent visit to Haldane UK‘s headquarters to present the company with its Queen’s Award for Enterprise, Prince Charles has headed to Wales to see first hand how money from the Forestry Commission Wales programme has been used to create facilities to promote sustainable forest management in the country.
This includes £120,000 spent on expanding woodland in Llwydcoed to provide space for community groups to practice forest management and conservation techniques and £230,000 invested in a woodland interpretation scheme that has taken the form of two large replica roundhouses at Llynon Mill Community Woodland in Anglesey.
“The Prince…was very impressed with the detail and craftsmanship which had gone into the [Llynon] project,” said Cydcoed project manager Bob Griffiths.
Cydcoed has stated that woodlands are central to the Welsh Assembly’s attempts to help the country’s poorest communities, with “jobs, economic regeneration and social inclusion” helping to “build a brighter future”.
