Award winner carves a new career

18 June 2011

Forester and woodworker Elizabeth Cadd has been named Lantra’s Women and Work Trees and Timber Winner of the Year.

Ms Cadd studied art and design at university and worked as a freelance web and graphic designer before making a career change three years ago. Then, through Lantra’s Women and Work programme, she studied sustainable woodland management, woodland ride management and social forestry at the Greenwood Centre in Ironbridge.

Thanks to the scheme, she also completed a three-day tool forging workshop with John Rees at Clissett Wood using a traditional charcoal forge, and a two-day workshop with Ben Orford in a hi-tech forge making greenwood bowl turning hooks and turning chisels.

The Lantra Women and Work Awards were sponsored by VectorWorks Training.