Institute of Chartered Foresters
The Royal Chartered body for tree professionals in the UK.
Sectors: Arboriculture Countryside Ecology Environmental and Outdoor Education Fieldwork and Research Forestry Policy and Advice Practical Land Management Sustainability Wildlife
Regions: National
HQ or Main Location: Edinburgh
Organisation Size: Small (10-49 employees)
Overview
Founded in 1925 as the Society of Foresters of Great Britain, the Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF) was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1982 and is the only professional body in the UK to award the titles of Chartered Forester and Chartered Arboriculturist. The Institute has more than 2,300 members from a wide range of roles across the sector. Integrity, excellence, collaboration, sustainability and transparency form the basis on which the ICF operate and underpin all their strategic objectives. Full details on how to join the ICF, and routes to professional membership, are on the ICF website.
Contact Details:
Phone: 0131 2401425
Email: icf@charteredforesters.org
In-Depth Features
- Who works with Trees?
- Planting Seeds for the Future: How Virtual Work Experience is Cultivating the Next Generation of Foresters
- Careers in the Trees
News
- Workers reach breaking point as new report reveals quiet mental health crisis in forestry
- ICF Launches New Mentoring Programme
- Help gather evidence of grey squirrel damage to trees
- Celebrating progress & world first for grey squirrel fertility control research
- Building the future forestry workforce
- Institute signs letter urging for VAT removal on sunscreen for outdoor workers
- Virtual work experience programme launched to attract the next generation of foresters
- Hundreds of funded places on UKFS e-learning programme
- ICF and CIEEM publish paper on bringing more woods into management
- EFRA Committee report notes skills shortage risks to tree planting agenda
- Update to the Agricultural Transition Plan in England and Institute response
- For International Women's Day: Women in Arboriculture.