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The annual Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards’ Programme strives to reward and showcase all that is best in Scotland’s forests and woods.

This year’s Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards are:

• Climate Change Champion Award: For Scotland’s forests and woodlands that can demonstrate they have an important role in helping to mitigate climate change and/or adapt to the changing climate and/or share knowledge/information or raise awareness about climate change.
• Community Woodlands Award: Community-based projects can compete for this Scotland-wide award with two competitions for both small and large community woodland groups therefore covering the full spectrum of community forestry in Scotland.
• Farm Woodland Award: For active farmers/croftes anywhere in Scotland and for young people (40 years of age or less) whether the active farmer/crofter and/or their forester/woodland manager or both roles.
• New Native Woods Award: New native woodland projects compete for this award.
• Quality Timber Awards: For ‘newly-planted commercial woodland’, ‘a single stand/compartment/small wood’ or ‘whole estates and larger multi-purpose forests or woodlands’.
• Schools Award: Schools and pre-school projects anywhere in Scotland can enter this ever-popular award.

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Geographical areas funded: Scotland

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Prize/award

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Capital, Revenue

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When to apply

2024 entries closed on 31 March 2024.

How to apply

Application form on the Awards website.

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Activites funded: Citizenship and community involvement Community development and regeneration Environment

Beneficiaries funded: Local communities

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