Our certified timber is your assurance of 100% legal and sustainable sourcing.
Timber from well managed woodlands is a natural, renewable raw material.
The forest environment is a natural ecological habitat and a carbon sink, filtering CO2 from the air and absorbing it into the biomass of the trees, under-story, plants and soil.
Choosing certified timber for building work, furniture making or joinery actively negates environmental problems such as climate change, ecosystem destruction and landscape deterioration caused by deforestation.
We source and supply timber certified under by 3 different certifying bodies, GiB, PEFC & FSC® and we are audited annually on our supply chain and our chain-of-custody of ‘legal and sustainable’ timber.
Click below to download copies of our chain-of-custody certificates
GIB: Grown in Britain Chain of Custody certificate PDF
PEFC: Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification Chain of Custody certificate PDF
FSC®: Forest Stewardship Council® Chain of Custody certificate PDF
Read more below on each of the 3 organisations and their standards and also on our auditor.
GiB Chain of Custody
We’re also actively involved in Grown in Britain, an initiative to support the UK forestry & timber industry.
We were the first timber supplier to sign up the Grown in Britain chain of custody licensing scheme and we use the Grown in Britain certification to label our British grown timber.
Our Grown in Britain stock is sourced from forests felled under license from the Forestry Commission or as part of a management plan agreed in accordance with the UK Woodland Assurance Standard (UKWAS). This standard provides the central component of the forest certification programmes operated in the UK by the FSC® & PSFC™ schemes. Visit the Grown in Britain website to find out more.
Download and save a copy of our Grown in Britain Chain of Custody certificate as a PDF
See our current Grown in Britain timber stock.
PEFC Chain of Custody
We hold chain of custody timber certification for Programme for Endorsement of Forest Cerification (PEFC) schemes CU-PEFC-805623 which accompanies our structural timber including the fresh sawn oak beams and posts and the seasoned stock.
The PEFC is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) through independent third-party certification.
Download and save a copy of our Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification Chain of Custody certificate as a PDF
FSC® Chain of Custody
We hold chain of custody timber certification for Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) FSC-C102802 to be able to provide assurance and traceability on the sources of our imported timber. The FSC® is an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit organization established to promote the responsible management of the world’s forests.
Download and save a copy of our Forest Stewardship Council® Chain of Custody certificate as a PDF
FSC® certified products are available on request.
Annual Timber Certification Audit
We audit and are audited every year to maintain the quality of assurance and ensure the traceability of our certified timber.
The auditing body for the Grown in Britain, FSC® and PEFC chain of custody certificates is Control Union.
If you have any questions about buying certified timber please don’t hesitate to ask (Tom is the best person to talk to… 01730 816941).
MORE
Read more about our buying philosophy and why we think timber certification matters.
Read the United Kingdom Government definition of ‘legal and sustainable’
A Forest Research publication on sustainable timber in construction
The WWF publication on the sustainable sourcing of timber for furniture making
The UN Sustainable Development Goals homepage
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