Tom Compton

Director

BSc Hons (Forestry), MICFor, Dip Bus

E: tom@englishwoodlandstimber.co.uk

M: 07715 705334

Tom joined the company in 1990 becoming Director in 2007.  He is also co-director of English Woodlands Timber – our sister company in Sussex which produces quality timber for furniture, joinery and building.

• Woodland and estate management

• Timber valuation, grading and marketing – especially of hardwoods

• Project management and budgeting

• Woodlands and landscape in South East of England

• Species selection

• Stakeholder engagement and networks

• Winner of RFS award in Excellence in Silviculture 2019 + 2022 (Shere Manor Estate)

• SEEDA Timber Champion 2009

Alison Field

Non-executive Director

BSc Hons (Forestry), FICfor

Alison joined the business in 2019 with over 30 years’ experience in forestry.  She was previously the Forestry Commission’s Area Director for the South East and London and Manager of the New Forest.  

• Project funding and delivery

• Carbon budgeting

• Woodland creation

• Farm woodlands

• Fellow and Council member of the Institute of Chartered Foresters

• Trustee of the  National Forest Company

• Trustee of Confor Education and Provident Fund

• Member of the Editorial Panel Quarterly Journal of Forestry

• Vice President of the Royal Forestry Society