The Scottish Coppice Network is an informal group that aims to promote and support coppicing and coppice crafts in Scotland. We are affiliated to the UK-wide National Coppice Federation.

What the group does

The Scottish Coppice Network aims to promote coppicing and coppice crafts in Scotland. We want to increase areas under coppice management, facilitate coppice training and promote associated crafts including hedgelaying.

Discussion and Learning

We use the RS Hub as a place to announce events, and coppice related news (replacing the newsletter which ran until 2024). We’d encourage you to sign up to the Hub (it’s free) to ask questions and discuss coppice related stuff – it’s an open forum for anyone to use. We also administrate a Facebook group.

Coppice Case Studies

Launched in 2025 we are gathering and publishing case studies about actively managed coppice woodlands across Scotland. Current case studies are available to view on the RS Hub here.

Training Events

We are volunteer led and if you have an idea for some training that you could help organise, or would like to run an event and need some help, please get in touch. There is a small budget available from Reforesting Scotland to help fund and facilitate events and projects to further the development of coppice in Scotland. All events will be advertised on the RS Hub – look out for the Events Calendar links.

Coppice Gatherings

We have organised occasional winter gatherings and hope to have more of these in the near future. Read more about the 2021 gathering here, and the 2022 gathering here.

A little history…

During the Scottish Crannog Centre’s ‘Regenerating Hazel Coppice‘ conference in April 2013, delegates suggested that there should be a network of some kind for people involved in coppicing in Scotland. Reforesting Scotland followed this up by producing the 2014 Coppice Network Study Report funded by Forestry Commission Scotland. Progress slowed after this and eventually stalled before the Coppice Network was created.

In 2019 a Scottish Coppice Network Facebook Group was started and quickly gained popularity. There were a few discussions to create a more formal group, affiliated with the National Coppice Federation, originally intended for 2020, but finally it happened in 2021.

Join the Coppice Network

Joining the group is now free and funded by Reforesting Scotland. When you join we’ll add you to the occasional mailing list but most of our announcements are made on the RS Hub so please sign up to that.