Young people working wood
Really, I noticed some young people there on the Saturday and the Sunday but very few indeed. Being as this is now a missed opportunity for parents and grandparents to bring their children to, I recommend you plan a trip to St Asaph for the Woodfest next summer and also to Essex for the European Woodworking Show in the Autumn.
My next article for The Woodworker mag is actually well under way and will be in the next issue in a couple of weeks. I hope that you caught the last ones in the December and October issues for those of you in the UK.
This afternoon I was on one of the BBC Wales live shows with Roy Noble and we talked about a range of different aspects of entrepreneurial woodworking and what we can do to help continue inspiring woodworkers, stimulate hand skill workers, conserve skills and so on. We must continue in the quest to help people see any disparity and shortfalls on all levels so we don’t not only lose what we have, but proactively stimulate economies in cottage crafts and industries to bring the businesses back home. Yes, it’ can be hard work but my goal is to somehow see regional centres for training woodworkers foundationally without making them all joiners and construction workers, unless that’s what they want to be.