Our Staff

Peter Solly is Managing Director and
joined Forest Fuels in March 2010.  A Chartered Forester with wide experience of countryside and business management, his previous roles include 10 years at SW-based environmental contracting firm Silvanus Services Ltd, latterly as an owner/Director.

Sam Whatmore is the founder ofForest Fuels. Now a Director, and with over ten years’ experience in woodfuel production and a further 20 years’ managing woodlands, he heads up Woodfuel Solutions – our consultancy and advisory service.

Will Frost is Operations Manager overseeing all supply contracts across the region. He joined Forest Fuels in summer 2008 and manages the woodfuel depots and customer contracts. Will is a qualified Forester with a wide range of forestry and small business development experience in the South West of England and East Africa!

 

Office support

Janette Newell is Forest Fuels’ longest serving employee. She keeps the whole operation running!

 

 

 

Barbara Askew brings order to the accounts department.

Forestry & wood chip production Team

Richard Ashton our foreman has joined us from across the valley where his brother is a dairy farmer, chip quality is his responsibility.

 

 

Rafal Pohl loves any job, be it chipping
at the Eden depot, forest harvesting work
or improving his English doing log deliveries.

 

 

Zbyszek Horbowy is the man to deal with big trees, be it splitting them in to firewood or felling them to beautiful sawlogs.