Surrey Hills Wood Fuel (SHWF) aims to encourage people and organisations based in and around the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to adopt wood fuel as their primary method of heating and to use the wood fuel now being produced locally. We aim to:

• Promote the professional development of wood fuel production in the Surrey Hills AONB and the sustainable management of its forest.

• Assist and advise the six local authorities in the AONB and neighbouring authorities to promote the use of wood fuel in new developments.

• Create and maintain awareness among developers and end users of the benefits of using wood fuel as an energy source.

• Work and coordinate with wood fuel producers and suppliers of wood burning equipment, to ensure that the developing market is fully realised.

• Provide an annual rolling programme of community outreach, marketing, training and advice.

Surrey Hills Wood Fuel began in 2006 as a result of a DEFRA 'Bio Energy Infrastructure Scheme' grant in order to establish a wood pellet and wood chip production base in the Surrey Hills AONB.

The outputs of the BEIS project were the production for fuel of 3600 tonnes woodchip per annum and 960 tonnes of wood pellets / annum. This has now been achieved.