Nailing jelly to the wall

I was at two good meetings at the Arboricultural Association’s new headquarters yesterday, both dealing with a pan-industry project that will offer a range of benefits to all the stakeholders.

The first was to present a concept to the Arborists’ Working Group, they bought into the idea and so for the second meeting a much smaller team went off to the playpen (thanks Andy Poynter!) to begin to put flesh onto the bones.

The underlying idea appears to be simple, but in the past taking the idea forward bore all the hallmarks of nailing jelly to the wall.   This time round there are a number of external actors that appear to be encouraging the project, some are looming on the horizon, others have added some immediacy and urgency to the task, as well as an increased possibility of success.

Much to be done in a relatively short time to create a structure for the project, then it can be populated by willing volunteers!