11th December 2025 • The HERALD • Page 65 v INDEPENDENT, LOCAL AND PROUD v ASK A PROFESSIONAL Sanders Design SERVICES LTD BUILDING PLANS AND DETAILED DRAWING SERVICE Complete professional service for extensions, conversions, new houses and commercial projects • Computer Aided Design Drawings • Free Initial Visit and Quotation 95 Cedar Road, Hythe, Southampton SO45 3PX Tel: 023 8020 7195 Email: info@sandersdesignservices.co.uk Web: www.sandersdesignservices.co.uk Forest Start-Up Gets Top Marque A cutting-edge start-up that provides dry wood for burning has marked its anniversary by achieving the New Forest Marque. Lymington Firewood creates seasoned timber from trees cut down within sustainable parts of the forest. It means it quali es for the marque that is allocated only to businesses whose produce is sourced locally. Run by Ed Wallrock and Alice Shaw, Lymington Firewood has delivered 200 tonnes of kiln-dried wood in the last 12 months. It is also now the exclusive provider of wood for Comanche, the smoked food company which attends local events and whose produce can be found in farm shops. Ed said: “We have been operating for a year and our investment in the FuelWood machine that cuts, splits, cleans and dries the timber has proven well spent. It has made 13,000 cuts since we set it up and it enables us time to make free deliveries within a 10 mile radius of our site near Boldre. Achieving the New Forest Marque really does make a difference and others with the marque look out for it. We supply farm shops and have become the supplier for Comanche whose smoked food is superb. Our process has no waste; off-cuts are burned to season the wood and the sawdust is supplied to stables and other places. We now sell kindling and firelighters, which are covered with natural wax and hand-rolled. With wood-burners and firepits so popular we have been busy all year, even through the summer. We now also sell through our website and after a full year in business we have a growing number of repeat customers. We also supply Everton Nurseries, Beaulieu Farm Shop and Setley Farm Shop.” For more information visit: www.lymington rewood.co.uk (Left to right) Alice Shaw, Giles Riley from Comanche, Ed Wallrock and Alex Baker Upcoming Oakhaven Business Club Networking Events Oakhaven Business Club runs regular networking events with local businesses across the New Forest, Waterside and Totton. Businesses can pay-as-you-go per person per session, or become an annual member. Thursday 29th January, 10am–12noon, kick o the New Year in style with a delicious cream tea at Stanwell House with guest speaker Tina Worthing from Aventina Training who will be talking all about prioritising for the year ahead, £15. For more information about how to join the Oakhaven Business Club or to book a space for one of their networking events please visit: www.oakhavenhospice.co.uk/ oakhaven-business-club
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